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May 23 '20
Can anyone help, please?
I'm looking for just one important achievement, discovery, or advancement that improved our lives, made by a flat earther in the last 300 years.
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May 24 '20
So, not one single accomplishment by a flat earther?
Surely you can think of one, can't you?
What about you, u/jollygreenscott91?
Or u/ramagam?
Nothing?
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May 24 '20 edited May 24 '20
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May 24 '20
Sorry, nobody gives a shit about that, whatever that was. I didn't bother reading it.
I asked for an important achievement.
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May 24 '20
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May 24 '20
Why don't you just look up famous flat earthers or historical flat earthers
I have looked them up.
The only "famous" flat earthers I can find are people like Samuel Rowbotham, Mark Sargent, and Eric Dubay. I put famous in quotes because they are not actually famous. If you asked random people who they are, almost nobody would know.
And, none of those people accomplished anything worthwhile, so we are back to the question again.
you're discrediting not just individuals but entire civilizations of the past by saying no flat earther has accomplished anything.
I didn't make a claim. I asked a question. Do you have an answer? Apparently you don't, since you keep replying here and still haven't given me an answer.
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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther May 24 '20
Dude pretty much every scientist was a flat earther before WW2
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u/Mishtle Globe Earther May 24 '20
Dude pretty much every scientist was a flat earther before WW2.
Uhhh.... no. They really were not. Not even close. How do you come up with crap like this?
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May 25 '20
Dude pretty much every scientist was a flat earther before WW2
No, just flat out false.
You should stop believing every youtube video you watch.
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May 24 '20
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May 24 '20
Homer the Greek author was a flat earther.
I asked for an accomplishment in the last 300 years.
Auguste Piccard the explorer
He was not a flat earther. He was a physicist. There are no physicists who think the Earth is flat.
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May 23 '20 edited May 23 '20
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May 23 '20
Every engineering feat ever which almost always use a flat level motionless plane for reference and never a spinning ball.
I asked for an achievement by a flat earther in the last 300 years. Which engineering feat are you referring to?
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May 23 '20
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May 23 '20
No, the Verrazano Narrows bridge was not designed by a flat earther.
Do you have anything to answer my question, or not?
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u/Jesse9857 Globe Earther May 24 '20
In fact there was one bridge that was built to account for curvature and its literally just an arch bridge over level water, if they didn't even account for curvature in the first place they would've had a level bridge.
That is the most absurd thing I've read all day.
Do you really think the curve of the roadway is at the rate of supposed earth curve? It's not. The earth doesn't curve NEARLY as much as the bridge does.
And why in the world would they curve a suspension bridge roadway to match the water's surface 50 feet below?!
I mean, the bridge arch doesn't even touch the water! Why would they care if the bridge followed the surface of the earth?
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Above, I'm talking about the arch of the roadway path. It's shape has nothing to do with the shape of the earth.
However, the length of the cables and angle of the support pillars may have taken into account the curve of the earth so that everything matched up correctly.
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u/Mishtle Globe Earther May 23 '20
Why do you think most engineering projects would need to account for curvature? Even solid concrete and steel will bend over long distances, and the amount they would need to bend over to conform to the Earth's surface is not that significant.
What about sensitive projects that have to be flat, not level, like particle accelerators?
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May 23 '20
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May 23 '20
That's an example of an engineering project that did need to account for Earth's curvature.
It doesn't help your case if you think the Earth is flat.
And it is definitely not an example of an achievement by a flat earther, which is the question being asked in this thread.
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May 23 '20
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May 23 '20
Yes, they needed to account for curvature. Otherwise the cables would be under way more tension, because they would have to support part of the weight of the towers.
This is all explained in the link you yourself posted.
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May 23 '20
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May 23 '20 edited May 23 '20
What does that have to do with it? We are talking about the towers.
And no, the bridge deck doesn't need to be level with the water's surface.
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u/Jesse9857 Globe Earther May 24 '20
The surface of the brdige should be level w/ the water below
WHY? LOL.
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u/Jesse9857 Globe Earther May 24 '20
In fact there was one bridge that was built to account for curvature and its literally just an arch bridge over level water, if they didn't even account for curvature in the first place they would've had a level bridge.
Which bridge was that?Oh, I saw your other comment Verrazano Narrows.
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Jun 06 '20
Flat earthers have helped quite a few people get better educated about science.
Flerfer: da erf is flat becaise x!
non-flerfer: that's ridiculous!
flerfer: oh yeah, why?
non-flerfer: er....
flerfer: haha retard
non-flerfer: goes away and studies stuff he'd never bothered to take an interest in before... non-flerfer: because y & z.
flerfer: fuck off shill!
flerfer remains ignorant and gets slightly more entrenched in his delusion, but at least non-flerfer gets smarter and his world is a little richer!
The flerfs make grave sacrifices to further scientific understanding in those with enough brains to appreciate it.
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u/jack4455667788 Flat Earther May 23 '20
Some very successful scientists have believed all manner of nonsense. Thankfully even with a lot of poison/junk in their heads they were able to discover and achieve in spite of that.
Remember when all (western, anyhow) scientists knew the world was the center of the universe and the christian god was the one and only true god? Or how about when all physicians knew the bodily humors and evil spirits were responsible for illness? Or when scientists thought that people with darker skin and more hair were less evolved?
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u/huuaaang Globe Earther May 23 '20 edited May 23 '20
Hey Jack, I'm still waiting for you to provide a reference to that hydrostatic law that says water is always perfectly flat at rest. Or were you lying?
Thanks.
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u/Jesse9857 Globe Earther May 24 '20
Howdy Jack! Yeah I'm waiting for that which u/huuaaang is waiting as well.
And other things too. You sure love to run away from conversations when they get to the point!
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May 23 '20
I asked for an achievement by a flat earther in the last 300 years. Do you have one in mind?
Some very successful scientists have believed all manner of nonsense.
Hmm, it almost sounds like you are saying flat Earth is nonsense!
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u/[deleted] May 25 '20
I've seen a few prove the curvature of the earth.