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slimmouse » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:14 am wrote:

Novem5er wrote:First, it'd be a con that was a couple hundred years in the making. Galileo got this whole space thing going back in the 17th century and it's been going strong, with confirmation, ever since. It's not just history books and NASA, it'd be every scientific community across the globe for the last 300 years. That'd be some con. And for what? I think TPTB would have done equally as well selling us a Bible-based Flat Earth.

Given that a knowledgable mind might reasonably suggest that Ancient civilisations were mapping the precession of the equinoxes over 10,000 years ago, surely it would need to be a tad older than that?

Unless of course you took their understanding that the universe is really, simplly a reflection of ourselves, at its literal word.

Who would ever believe that to be the case anyways, let alone a metaphorical interpretation of such?

Point taken. We get the name planet from the ancient Greeks, meaning wanderers, because they looked like bright stars, but they did not travel in relation to the other stars. Obviously the Egyptians kept track of the heavens, as well. I more meant that Galileo was the first (?) to actually observe these planets as physical bodies and not just points of light.

To your last few points, the acceptance of modern astronomy in now way precludes someone from believing in the Christian God, ancient myths, or the occult. I try to tell Southern Christians all the time that they can still be a Christian and accept that the planet is older than 7,000 years. It's okay.

US Navy Submarine Chief: What Curve?

– keeping subs level (trimming) and not surfacing with no regard for curvature
– maintaining level flight altitude without correcting for curvature
– jets neither nose down nor up to adjust for curvature
– surveyors never take account of curvature
– line of sight vision from one side of the Panama Canal to the other
– no GPS tracking south of the equator
– machine shops on all subs, no machine shop on the ISS
– how is atmosphere/pressure managed/maintained on the ISS?
– if they eject toxic gasses how do they maintain cabin pressure?
– ISS: no hatches between sections, complete nonchalance in extreme environment
– throwing globe off balance like a tyre, counterweights, gyros, and laws of procession
– Anthropogenic Axis Flipping: global trade/travel doesn’t lead to unbalancing globe?
– gyro attitude in space: tangents, planes and "the curve"

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This guy needs to watch Action Bronson and Friends Watch Ancient Aliens.

US Navy Missile (NATO Sea Sparrow) Instructor (LHD 7 USS Iwo Jima)

– no curvature, no Coriolis effect taken into account
– tracking/viewing ships from waterline up beyond 15-18 nautical miles
– Sea Sparrow tracking, RF tracking target line of sight
– 2º pencil beam line of sight fire control radar painting targets at 50 nautical miles (objects supposedly 1700ft below/behind curve/horizon)
– Sea Sparrow computer retrofit from tank system, built on planar model, no account for curve
– Coriolis not taken into account, ever
– “coriolis effect” is bs for braggarts
– no weapons systems in US Navy take cure or coriolis into account
– seeing ships 25-27 nautical miles off in infrared
– GPS is backup to primary nav systems based on gyro
– navigation, distance, speed, ETA anomalies
– weather conditions and visibility on the sea
– laser rangefinding/pulse-wave modulation experiment
– clinometer/infrared camera experiment
– constellation parallax, coincidence theory of the universe
– clouds behind the moon

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Seriously?

I can't believe I am seeing this here. It hurts my brain.

Do you want me to retitle this?

I'm thinking "Catalog of Flat Earth Youtube videos juxtaposed with RI's reactions," but I'm open to suggestions.

^^ yeah I don't think vanlose kid is necessarily arguing these points. He/she so far hasn't engaged anyone or replied to any reactions. For a poster with over 3,000 posts, he/she is remarkably quiet and mysterious

I think a catalog thread is a good idea.

is this some kind of honey pot for stupid people?

OP ED » Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:34 am wrote:Seriously?

I can't believe I am seeing this here. It hurts my brain.

Same as it ever was OP ED. Where have you been for the last two years?

no GPS tracking south of the equator

That has just got to suck for my friends in Australia. I'm checking with them to see if they use GPS in their automobiles.

Back at you in a bit.

On edit: Yes, they do have GPS trackers in Australia.

and the great leap forward in the early part of the 20th century that enabled laying on the lawn at night. What was it, deet or micro mesh?

it was is cash and guards

brainpanhandler » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:45 am wrote:

OP ED » Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:34 am wrote:Seriously?

I can't believe I am seeing this here. It hurts my brain.

Same as it ever was OP ED. Where have you been for the last two years?

Been doing stuff.
You know, the usual. Crafting political propaganda. Initiating Wiccan girls. Drinking goat's blood. Not believing that the world is flat. Stuff like that.

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NeonLX » Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:57 am wrote:

no GPS tracking south of the equator

That has just got to suck for my friends in Australia. I'm checking with them to see if they use GPS in their automobiles.

Back at you in a bit.

On edit: Yes, they do have GPS trackers in Australia.

Bro, I wish you would quit lying. All you do is lie lie lie. Crooked NeonLX. Joe hasn't showed up in a grip. He fell off the side of the Earth. Believe me. Believe me. Outstanding.