Originally posted by sonhouseI am deadly serious, sir.
I think he gave up. He squeezed as much laity as he could out of this subject.
Answer the basic questions I have put forth most recently, and I assure you the truth of what I am putting forth--- the truth of my challenges up to this point--- will dawn on you like a bolt of lightning.
Originally posted by FreakyKBHAll you do is pose questions, you don't even THINK about what I said. You have nothing.
I am deadly serious, sir.
Answer the basic questions I have put forth most recently, and I assure you the truth of what I am putting forth--- the truth of my challenges up to this point--- will dawn on you like a bolt of lightning.
Originally posted by FreakyKBHWhy don't you try to visualize my point about a satellite. In your mythology, satellites cannot exist, they will just fly off forever in space away from Earth or crash, probably just fly off unless they are totally powered 100% to maintain an 'orbit' like an aircraft flying say, at 100,000 feet circling a town or whatever.
I've recently posed two very easily--- trivially easy, if you will--- verifiable questions.
The answer to those two questions will do wonders to your mind.
Surely there is some flat earthian modification of gravity to justify a flat earth only a few miles thick to be able to have satellite orbits.
Or are you just going to say satellite orbits don't exist, it's all a big fraud like every other so-called argument you pose?
Originally posted by sonhouseHow many satellites do you suspect there are "up there?"
Why don't you try to visualize my point about a satellite. In your mythology, satellites cannot exist, they will just fly off forever in space away from Earth or crash, probably just fly off unless they are totally powered 100% to maintain an 'orbit' like an aircraft flying say, at 100,000 feet circling a town or whatever.
Surely there is some flat earthi ...[text shortened]... satellite orbits don't exist, it's all a big fraud like every other so-called argument you pose?
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Originally posted by FreakyKBHRight now, hundreds, so what? Do you think satellites can orbit around the flat surface of a flat Earth? BTW, why do you weigh a over 100 pounds if the Earth is only a few miles thick? Gravitational attraction has a well known formula and that alone says Earth is not flat.
How many satellites do you suspect there are "up there?"
Of course you will have a rational for that, right? If we live on a 12 mile thick planet and science says we live on a more or less sphere 8000 odd miles across, then to get the same gravity field we can easily measure right now, I weigh 100 Kg. If the Earth was 12 miles thick, for the same gravity, the density of rock for that 12 miles would have to be over 600 times denser than it is to make me weigh 100 Kg. I would only weigh a few ounces if the density was as we see it and only 12 miles thick.
I'll give you a hint: Lead is only a few times heavier than granite. Not 600 times denser or heavier. If that 12 mile depth was ALL lead I would still weigh less than a kg.
Where do you come up with this stuff anyway? Don't you ever even TRY to think of actual consequences of such a 'theory' as a flat Earth?
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Originally posted by sonhouse[b]Right now, hundreds, so what?
Right now, hundreds, so what? Do you think satellites can orbit around the flat surface of a flat Earth? BTW, why do you weigh a over 100 pounds if the Earth is only a few miles thick? Gravitational attraction has a well known formula and that alone says Earth is not flat.
Of course you will have a rational for that, right? If we live on a 12 mile th ...[text shortened]... way? Don't you ever even TRY to think of actual consequences of such a 'theory' as a flat Earth?
Try thousands.
Estimated ~3,000 "working" and many non-working.
Not to mention all of the space junk.
http://www.popsci.com/now-you-can-see-all-space-junk-floating-around-earth-real-time
If we don't need a globe to achieve circumnavigation (it's possible to start at any point of the planet, travel in an east or west direction, and end up where you began), why would we need a globe to achieve low orbit above?
BTW, why do you weigh a over 100 pounds if the Earth is only a few miles thick?
Again, the only statement I have made with respect to depth is how far we have drilled into the ground: 12 kilometers or seven miles [I had previously quoted it as 12 miles].
If we've only drilled 12 miles into the ground, doesn't that make you wonder how anyone could possibly know anything about what lies beneath that depth?
How can there be anything but wild speculation as to the lower levels of the earth, or that there is a core?
Of course, good ol' science comes roaring back with the claim of particle accelerators, x-rays, high intensity lasers and other clap trap, all of which is supposed to instill confidence that despite being literally stopped at seven miles deeps, they're able to ascertain what lies another 3,951 miles to the core.
Do you believe in miracles?
Well, that's the amount of faith required to put your trust in "science" on this one.
Gravitation ain't all that it's cracked up to be.
Tesla said Einstein was dead wrong on his theory of relativity and was working on a theory which (among other corrections) negated space curvature--- the basis of his unfinished theory is utilized part of a field which is being worked on even today: plasma cosmology.
And if it's gravity keeping our atmosphere connected to the earth, at what point do the forces of the so-called "vacuum of space" take over?
Originally posted by FreakyKBHYou seem to have this knack of delivering so much but actually saying very little. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and so far you are yet to produce anything of substance.
[b][b]Right now, hundreds, so what?
Try thousands.
Estimated ~3,000 "working" and many non-working.
Not to mention all of the space junk.
http://www.popsci.com/now-you-can-see-all-space-junk-floating-around-earth-real-time
If we don't need a globe to achieve circumnavigation (it's possible to start at any point of the planet, travel in an east o ...[text shortened]... onnected to the earth, at what point do the forces of the so-called "vacuum of space" take over?[/b]
Back to the conspiracy angle which you dodged, how many people do you think are involved in this conspiracy?