26 Aug 14
Originally posted by JS357if you can live on pancakes you can live on a flat earth.
I know. That's why I said speed. The way I learned it, velocity includes both magnitude and direction. I didn't want to get into discussion of the rate of directional change of points on a rotating sphere vs points on a rotating disc.
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26 Aug 14
Originally posted by redbadgerThe closest approximation to the physical conditions on a spherical planet would probably be on a cube, living on the faces. but the atmosphere and its various layers would not simply be larger cubes, and the oceans and living conditions would be rather weird due to the distribution and orientation of gravitational attraction.
if you can live on pancakes you can live on a flat earth.
http://news.discovery.com/space/what-if-earth-was-a-cube-110815.htm
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26 Aug 14
Originally posted by sonhouseI contest the time zone claim as this would depend on the relative orbit of the Sun in this scenario. However I can confirm that the earth is definitely flat. At least as far as the eye can see it is anyway.
Dam round planet! I am at work and have to wait 3 frigging hours to get hold of the left coast. If we lived on a flat Earth we would all have the same time zone. Anything we can do about that?
26 Aug 14
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Originally posted by divegeesterI was thinking if the disk was rotating around what we think of as the poles, the time of day would be very close everywhere, since the disk would be something like 12,000 km across, at 148 million Km (radius of Earth's orbit), X 2 X PI divide by 12,000 means from the position of the sun, from one side of the disk to the other would be an angle change of about 1.6 arc seconds, so as it spins around, the angle of sunlight hitting the disc would be essentially identical from one side of the disk to the other no matter the orientation of the disk with respect to the sun. So the time would be the same everywhere.
I contest the time zone claim as this would depend on the relative orbit of the Sun in this scenario. However I can confirm that the earth is definitely flat. At least as far as the eye can see it is anyway.
26 Aug 14
Originally posted by sonhouseOh dear, I would have thought that living in a flat earth would be as simple as eating American pancakes with honey and butter spread all over with none of these complicated mathematical issues. 😕
I was thinking if the disk was rotating around what we think of as the poles, the time of day would be very close everywhere, since the disk would be something like 12,000 km across, at 148 million Km (radius of Earth's orbit), X 2 X PI divide by 12,000 means from the position of the sun, from one side of the disk to the other would be an angle change of ab ...[text shortened]... r the orientation of the disk with respect to the sun. So the time would be the same everywhere.
03 Sep 14
Originally posted by sonhouseWould there be population on both sides of your disc? Then we would have still two time zones 😀
I was thinking if the disk was rotating around what we think of as the poles, the time of day would be very close everywhere, since the disk would be something like 12,000 km across, at 148 million Km (radius of Earth's orbit), X 2 X PI divide by 12,000 means from the position of the sun, from one side of the disk to the other would be an angle change of ab ...[text shortened]... r the orientation of the disk with respect to the sun. So the time would be the same everywhere.
05 Sep 14
Originally posted by wolfgang59I think you better go back to the drawing board. A sun on one side or 2 suns, one on opposite sides of Earth will still produce the same time zones we have now because at the perifery there would be sunrise and sunsets and in the middle it would be high noon. You can't get around that on a round planet.
duh! The dimmer switches for the suns are synchronised. 😛