Rut Roo

Originally posted by @whodey
Perfectly round?

No, say, mountains or valleys? 😛

You know, Whodey, the difference between a round earth and a flat earth.
None of them lack mountains or valleys.
The dispute is not about the Earth is perfectly spherical or not.
And that you already know. Are you MrFreaky's assistant, playing his game?

Whodey

Do you agree with freakykbh that the Earth is flat?

Originally posted by @whodey
How about the free thinker who suggested the theory of plate tectonics?

How about the fate of the man who suggested ulcers were a result of bacterial invasion?

How about how any scientist is treated for deviating from the status quo?

Assuming that such theories can be proved, they are eventually absolved and revered, but the initial insult can be ...[text shortened]... e establishment with open arms, all because they wish not to upset the political powers that be.

In most cases, scientists coming up with groundbreaking new theories already have permanent faculty positions. Their prestige may be at stake, but their careers aren't.

Einstein most certainly did not add the cosmological constant (to which you refer) in order to appease "the status quo." By the time Einstein introduced general relativity (which also introduced the cosmological constant), 12 years after his landmark paper on special relativity, Einstein was already one of the (if not the) world's leading theoretical physicists. To suggest that he was afraid of what his colleagues might think is nothing short of idiotic. Interestingly, modern cosmological theories do include a cosmological constant to attempt to explain the increasing rate of expansion of the Universe.

As usual, you know nothing of the topic at hand and, with the gullibility of a feeble-minded child, swallow the analysis of propaganda rags, while arrogantly dismissing people working in the field who could actually teach you about the way science works.

Originally posted by @humy
Nope. The fact the Earth is round was already verified before that video.

Try again.

You contradict yourself.
Again.

Your own source declares the formula as accurate for distances less than 100 miles.
You cannot account for the visibility of objects which are within that 'acceptable' distance.
He cannot account for the visibility of objects which are within that 'acceptable' distance.
The ONLY refutation your source suggests is refraction, but he neither knows anything about the phenomena, nor does he offer the slightest support for such a refutation.

You simply cannot play by the very simple rules of science, so you resort to pettiness and childish name calling.
Just like a few other die-hard party-liners.
It's something, but it ain't science.

Originally posted by @freakykbh
Your own source declares the formula as accurate for distances less than 100 miles.

so what?
How does that mean that formula is accurate for more than 100 miles?

You cannot account for the visibility of objects which are within that 'acceptable' distance.

In what sense can we not "account for" the visibility of objects within 100 miles?

The ONLY refutation your source suggests is refraction,

refraction doesn't explain how the Earth could be flat nor the shape of the Earth but rather is this;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction

Originally posted by @humy
so what?

Do you really think you can convince him of anything?
Or do you enjoy the discussion with him?

Originally posted by @whodey
You got me all wrong, I'm an OEC

Old Eccentric Charlatan?

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Old Eccentric Charlatan?

no, Organic Electric Conductor.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Old Eccentric Charlatan?

Ostentatious Egalitarian Contriver

Originally posted by @wildgrass
Ostentatious Egalitarian Contriver

Organic Egg Collector.

Originally posted by @freakykbh
Organic Egg Collector.

obnoxious echo chamber

Old Earth Creationism (belief system) ?

No, he must mean;

Ovarian Epithelial Cancer

I looked up OEC and that IS one of the things it sometimes means.

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OEC

Originally posted by @humy
Old Earth Creationism (belief system) ?

No, he must mean;

Ovarian Epithelial Cancer

I looked up OEC and that IS one of the things it sometimes means.

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OEC

He's got a lot of balls to be saying that!

Octopus Eel Shark

Originally posted by @freakykbh
Octopus Eel Shark

(I created a monster).

Optimistic Elvis Survivor.