The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

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Lumi

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Weird how all the other planets and moons are spheres but earth is just a dinner plate with a glass lid on it
They aren't solid bodies. Planets translates to wanderer. They're just wandering stars. Earth is not a planet. Ever seen Venus in the sky? It looks exactly like a star...because it is. When you view planets through even very powerful telescopes they don't look much like the pictures we're shown of them.

Anyways I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else really because you're beyond convincing so there's no point.
 
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They aren't solid bodies. Planets translates to wanderer. They're just wandering stars. Earth is not a planet. Ever seen Venus in the sky? It looks exactly like a star...because it is. When you view planets through even very powerful telescopes they don't look much like the pictures we're shown of them.

Anyways I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else really because you're beyond convincing so there's no point.

Oh planets are stars. Very cool. So earth is a flat star with a glass lid on it.

I can see the moon through my telescope, retard. Craters and all. Does the Sun have craters?
 

Lumi

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Oh planets are stars. Very cool. So earth is a flat star with a glass lid on it.

I can see the moon through my telescope, retard. Craters and all. Does the Sun have craters?

"They aren't solid bodies. Planets translates to wanderer. They're just wandering stars. Earth is not a planet. Ever seen Venus in the sky? It looks exactly like a star...because it is. When you view planets through even very powerful telescopes they don't look much like the pictures we're shown of them."

Helps to read.
 
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lurkingdirk

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I've seen Venus through a high powered telescope. It's round. It's on a fixed and predictable orbit. There's no giant turtle involved.

wat now?
 

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During a lunar eclipse, the Earth's shadow on the Moon is always round. This hints at a spherical Earth. Also, gravity acts the way it does because of Earth's round shape; on a flat Earth, it would be totally different.

Airplane flight paths follow the shortest distance on a round surface, which wouldn't work on a flat Earth.

As you go higher or travel towards the horizon, you can see the Earth's curve more clearly. The Coriolis effect is another interesting point; it makes moving objects curve due to Earth's rotation, but it wouldn't happen on a flat Earth.

Time zones and varying sunrise/sunset times are a result of Earth's round shape and rotation. Lastly, satellite tech like GPS relies on the Earth being round to work properly.
 
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During a lunar eclipse, the Earth's shadow on the Moon is always round. This hints at a spherical Earth. Also, gravity acts the way it does because of Earth's round shape; on a flat Earth, it would be totally different.

Airplane flight paths follow the shortest distance on a round surface, which wouldn't work on a flat Earth.

As you go higher or travel towards the horizon, you can see the Earth's curve more clearly. The Coriolis effect is another interesting point; it makes moving objects curve due to Earth's rotation, but it wouldn't happen on a flat Earth.

Time zones and varying sunrise/sunset times are a result of Earth's round shape and rotation. Lastly, satellite tech like GPS relies on the Earth being round to work properly.
Fellas, we've been over this with him ad nauseam.
He didn't even flinch when his buddy died trying to crack the case.
 

Lumi

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Airplane flight paths follow the shortest distance on a round surface, which wouldn't work on a flat Earth.
Show me a flight path over the south pole. Oh right they don't exist. Wonder why...

As you go higher or travel towards the horizon, you can see the Earth's curve more clearly.
Proven false by stratosphere balloons that show the horizon is completely flat.
 
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Show me a flight path over the south pole. Oh right they don't exist. Wonder why...
That's because of practical reasons like a lack of nearby airports for emergency landings, really cold weather, and saving fuel. That being said, some research flights, cargo flights, and even tourist trips have flown over or near the South Pole.

Proven false by stratosphere balloons that show the horizon is completely flat.
High-altitude balloon footage might seem like it shows a flat horizon, but that's often because of the camera lenses used. They can distort the image and make it look flat. If we use a different kind of camera lens, we can actually see a slight curve as we go higher up.

GPS has literally nothing to do with satellites.
GPS totally depends on a bunch of satellites that are orbiting the Earth. These satellites send signals to GPS receivers (like the ones in our phones), which then figure out where we are based on how long it takes for the signals to reach us. The whole system works because it assumes the Earth is round, and it's pretty accurate too.
 

Lumi

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That's because of practical reasons like a lack of nearby airports for emergency landings, really cold weather, and saving fuel. That being said, some research flights, cargo flights, and even tourist trips have flown over or near the South Pole.
Then they wouldn't be flying over the North Pole either if that were the case.

High-altitude balloon footage might seem like it shows a flat horizon, but that's often because of the camera lenses used. They can distort the image and make it look flat. If we use a different kind of camera lens, we can actually see a slight curve as we go higher up.
Lol you mean a different kind of lens kind a fisheye lens that adds a distorted curve to things like I demonstrated in an earlier post?
 

Lumi

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GPS totally depends on a bunch of satellites that are orbiting the Earth. These satellites send signals to GPS receivers (like the ones in our phones), which then figure out where we are based on how long it takes for the signals to reach us. The whole system works because it assumes the Earth is round, and it's pretty accurate too.



Here's your "satellites" except they aren't orbiting shit.
 
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Unrelated, sort of, but cool. Look how huge Japan is.

Screenshot 2023-05-04 at 23-46-15 Compare Countries With This Simple Tool.png


Screenshot 2023-05-05 at 00-01-46 Compare Countries With This Simple Tool.png


 
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Lumi

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Unrelated, sort of, but cool. Look how huge Japan is.

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Hard to even trust the accuracy of the maps we have. For instance, Greenland is shown to be roughly the same size as Africa when in reality Africa is about 14x larger lol. So while your comparison chart shows Japan being much smaller, they're actually probably close to the same size. The US is also significantly smaller than our maps indicate. The current map used by almost everyone is massively inaccurate.



It was actually described pretty well in this show.
 
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Ukerric

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aka we did not actually evolve from apes, we just rub shoulders with them evolutionarily
DNA killed that canard in the 21st century. You can map every single chromosome in human DNA to one in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, with nearly every gene located at the same place on the same chromosome, etc. We still have the remains of the fusion of the two chromosomes that remain separate in the genome of our distant cousins. And then, you can trace multiple evolutionary events back in time, because the genes involved are still identical to other, more distant relatives of our lineage.

DNA essentially killed all the dreams of space migrants/lost space colonies of old. Panspermia is still a possible - even if it looks like we share a lineage with Archaeae back a billion year ago, it's possible complex life came from space, and even Mars.

Unless you subscribe to teleologic evolution (which has no plausible mechanic), that is, genes will evolve into very specific configurations "because", so you get the same genomes appearing. Which is untrue - even with convergent evolution (like carcinogenesis, the tendency of invertebrates to produce crab-like species in multiple lineages, or the repeated inventions of tree features by multiple distant species), the genetic architecture behind tend to be significantly different: different causes, same effects (evolution selects for effects, not causes).
 
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Lumi

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DNA killed that canard in the 21st century. You can map every single chromosome in human DNA to one in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, with nearly every gene located at the same place on the same chromosome, etc.
And yet chimps are in the jungle still throwing feces at each other and we're sitting in houses talking to people around the world on a computer. Ya we're totally super alike lol. It's incredible how fucking retarded people like you can be to believe such unfuckingbelievably dumb ass shit. I get it, you jerk off to pictures of monkeys and somehow have to rationalize your mental illness. It makes perfect sense.
 
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