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The Flat Earth Society-- are YOU good enough?

cslewis

cslewis

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Can you name your favorite radioactive isotope? If so, the Flat Earth Society wants you.

The Earth accelerating in circular motion would behave no differently than would a car taking a corner: loose objects (humans and animals would act like loose change or a cup of coffee on the dashboard) would slide around, or be thrown off completely. There would be an apparent centrifugal force on everything. During the day, when things would be facing the sun and therefore on the inside of the "orbit", buildings would be crushed and humans beings squashed like grasshoppers in a centrifuge. And at night, when everything would be at the outside, trees and buildings would be ripped from the ground and flung into outer space, and humans wouldn't stand a chance.
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So even if you're one of those blasphemous round-earthers, it's worth taking a look.

Some links:

http://www.flat-earth.org/ (with a rather disturbing welcome message)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society (an interesting wikipedia article)
http://home.netcom.com/~rogermw/square_earth.html (a close cousin, the square earth society)
 
My Brothers Earth Science teacher told him about this a while ago. It's really funny they used to have a better site also. :confused:
 
Cesium-131

And to think that all these years and those shots from space have just been one big hoax... just like the moon landing. :(
 
Arsenic-74? ... I guess I never really thought about it before.

But reading the Flat Earth stuff is always good for a laugh. I just hope I finish this forum posting before night falls and I get flung into outer space.
 
Man has been writing about a round earth since 400ad, the idea that we all thought the earth was flat until a few hundred years ago is complete rubbish.

Maybe in a few tiny pockets of civilization, lost way in the middle of rainforrests, but nothing that would be popularly documented.

Plus, everyone knows if the earth was flat, it would be on the back of a giant turtle........
 
mikebatho said:
Plus, everyone knows if the earth was flat, it would be on the back of a giant turtle........
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Then what's Atlas carrying? Oh, yeah... a big medicine ball.
 
floriflee said:
Then what's Atlas carrying? Oh, yeah... a big medicine ball.
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Also a popular myth.

If you'd have seen the whole scene at the time, you'd have seen Atlas' wife standing just behind him, telling him to stop messing around and finish fitting the enormouse bulb into the ceiling light.....
 
mikebatho said:
Also a popular myth.

If you'd have seen the whole scene at the time, you'd have seen Atlas' wife standing just behind him, telling him to stop messing around and finish fitting the enormouse bulb into the ceiling light.....
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Enormous.....sorry.

Brain got a bit chilly there.....
 
The Earth accelerating in circular motion would behave no differently than would a car taking a corner: loose objects (humans and animals would act like loose change or a cup of coffee on the dashboard) would slide around, or be thrown off completely. There would be an apparent centrifugal force on everything. During the day, when things would be facing the sun and therefore on the inside of the "orbit", buildings would be crushed and humans beings squashed like grasshoppers in a centrifuge. And at night, when everything would be at the outside, trees and buildings would be ripped from the ground and flung into outer space, and humans wouldn't stand a chance.
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This is laughable. Someone needs to explain to these people what inertial reference frames are. Everyone on the earth is rotating, it's not like the ground suddenly shot out from underneath our feet. LOL

Plus, there's no such thing as "centrifugal force"

(okay, I feel like a nerd)
 
Don't feel too bad, I had the same reaction of course, as a reasonably intelligent person. Luckily for me, sunset didn't see me flung around like spare change in my car going around a corner. This gives me an idea. We should start a thread with a summary of wacko earth/science ideas, so everyone can have a sort of one-stop-shopping for entertainment.

I'm on it.

BTW, my favorite part of the argument so far is that people on the North Pole are fine, while those on the South Pole would drop off into space, like rain off the bottom of a gutter or something. That, and ether argument. Man, there's just so much to appreciate there.
 
gauchogolfer said:
Don't feel too bad, I had the same reaction of course, as a reasonably intelligent person. Luckily for me, sunset didn't see me flung around like spare change in my car going around a corner. This gives me an idea. We should start a thread with a summary of wacko earth/science ideas, so everyone can have a sort of one-stop-shopping for entertainment.

I'm on it.
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While we're at it...
 

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