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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The search for the Colombians comes to an end...

« Last post by Action80 on April 11, 2024, 04:12:05 PM »

A good read concerning this case is Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder.

Highly suggested.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / The search for the Colombians comes to an end...

« Last post by Action80 on April 11, 2024, 04:10:05 PM »

A great tragedy has occurred as the true killers of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman will now go scot-free.

If there is a hell, this POS will now take his place next to Johnnie Cochrane and F Lee Bailey.

I remember the DNA evidence and what Barry Scheck had to say about it. The thing is, Scheck actually made his living getting people off death row due to the incontrovertible nature of DNA evidence.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/oj-simpson-dead-at-age-76-family-confirms-5626890?utm_source=RTNews&src_src=RTNews&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2024-04-11-1&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2024-04-11-1&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa%2BcidhsJxcPN%2FrQut3NAH7F5ww0LIzwgbOIBKcVOYUPVwjDotRvn

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...

« Last post by Tom Bishop on April 11, 2024, 03:48:38 PM »

It mentions it just after 3 minutes in.

No, it doesn't explain it. This is what it says at the 3 minute mark, that straight lines will look like curves at another angle:

Angle 1:


Angle 2:


This does not answer why the lines move North-South. It answers a different question of why they might appear curved.

To understand this just put Google Earth in Globe mode, define some straight lines across the globe and then go back in to map projection mode. Voila:



Basically, it's a 2D line - the shadow path - mapped on to a 3D object - the globe - which is also spinning. And the rate of that spin varies with latitude.

It's a bit complicated, but if you look at the example at just after 3 minutes in to that video you can have a go yourself to help you understand it. A lot of your FE belief seems to stem from you not understanding the RE model and thus declaring it impossible.

That's not an explanation for why it travels North-South. This is an explanation for why a line might appear straight on a globe and make those curves on a map projection. You drew the North-South line there, not explained how that could occur in RE with a Moon which moves East to West.

Also, the below are not map projections. The lines do not appear straight or consistently curved here:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...

« Last post by AATW on April 11, 2024, 03:00:18 PM »

That video is titled "Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST?" and does not attempt to even explain the North-South movements.

It mentions it just after 3 minutes in. To understand this just put Google Earth in Globe mode, define some straight lines across the globe and then go back in to map projection mode. Voila:



Basically, it's a 2D line - the shadow path - mapped on to a 3D object - the globe - which is also spinning. And the rate of that spin varies with latitude.

It's a bit complicated, but if you look at the example at just after 3 minutes in to that video you can have a go yourself to help you understand it. A lot of your FE belief seems to stem from you not understanding the RE model and thus declaring it impossible.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...

« Last post by Tom Bishop on April 11, 2024, 11:28:26 AM »

The Solar Eclipse eclipse paths on a Flat Earth make more sense to me than the Solar Eclipse paths on the Round Earth.

I think I've identified the issue.
This is a bit complicated but this video does a reasonable job of explaining it:



The headline is that straight lines when mapped on to a globe aren't straight when shown on a 2d map projection.
And the earth is rotating at different speeds at different latitudes, which complicates things.
Also note that the width of the eclipse path changes with latitude. The size of the shadow isn't different, it's just that the angle of the earth's surface with respect to that shadow is different which means it can be seen over a wider area.

That video is titled "Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST?" and does not attempt to even explain the North-South movements. I am not asking why the eclipses travel West to East. I am asking why they make North-South movements, and make shapes like this:



Not only is there North-South movement, there many of them there is also a point of inflection, with one concave and one convex arch and where the eclipse changes direction.

The shapes are quite radical on a Round Earth, and there appears to be a lack of a coherent explanation for what is occurring here:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Lord Dave on April 11, 2024, 04:06:23 AM »

"The former president owns a majority stake in the company and his stake was valued at about $2.9 billion on Monday, down from a peak of over $6 billion after its debut on its trading debut."

It sounds like Trump's stake is still worth billions. This still appears to be his most profitable venture, and appears to be a doing lot better than most business ventures.

Which he can not sell until September.  So its not very helpful wealth to have.


That being said, I think it's telling how $3 billion(after a 50% loss) is his most successful venture.  Of course if it loses more value over the next two weeks, might underperform his casinos.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: gravity in different places and universal acceleration

« Last post by Tom Bishop on April 10, 2024, 11:59:22 PM »

The surface of the earth is most certainly accelerating upwards. See the page on Universal Acceleration and the sub pages in the end section which goes through the evidence. There is so much evidence for this that even in the official Round Earth Theory, the surface of the earth is accelerating upwards through the hidden dimension of curved spacetime to explain the multitude of physical and experimental evidence. The fact that mainstream physicists need this sort of meta-physics with hidden realities to conjure together an explanation is itself a proof, and one of my favorite proofs.

In regards to the gravitational changes by location, there have been some internal FE hypotheses over the years that the earth is accelerating upwards as the primary effect and there may be a small amount of gravitation as an addition. However, the latest research on gravitational variations seems to show that there is conflicting evidence on this subject and there likely are  no gravity changes. Universal Acceleration reigns supreme. See this page on that topic: https://wiki.tfes.org/Variations_in_Gravity

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Roundy on April 10, 2024, 11:48:36 PM »

"The former president owns a majority stake in the company and his stake was valued at about $2.9 billion on Monday, down from a peak of over $6 billion after its debut on its trading debut."

It sounds like Trump's stake is still worth billions. This still appears to be his most profitable venture, and appears to be a doing lot better than most business ventures.

As long as you're Trump, of course. All those people who made him rich by investing in his worthless shit, on the other hand...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« Last post by Tom Bishop on April 10, 2024, 11:46:26 PM »

"The former president owns a majority stake in the company and his stake was valued at about $2.9 billion on Monday, down from a peak of over $6 billion after its debut on its trading debut."

It sounds like Trump's stake is still worth billions. This still appears to be his most profitable venture, and appears to be a doing lot better than most business ventures.

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Flat Earth Theory / gravity in different places and universal acceleration

« Last post by jimster on April 10, 2024, 08:27:49 PM »

I saw a video where a man had a scale and a weight that he showed, then took went on an airliner a thousand miles away and showed the weight was slightly different. I googled "does gravity vary in different places?". I got results that said that due to different mass in different places, gravity does vary. Greater in mountains, less above trenches, which makes sense if gravity is attraction between masses as claimed by conventional consensus science.

Questions for FEs: Is this true, does gravity vary slightly in different places? Perhaps error or conspiracy? If gravity does vary, and gravity is due to universal acceleration (per the wiki?), does that mean that different places have slightly different acceleration? Seems to me that would distort the flatness over time. Places with less gravity would accelerate slightly slower, thus falling behind and so getting lower and lower compared to average, and mountains having more gravity would be accelerating. They would get continuously higher.

Should the universal acceleration theory be discarded, or is there an FE explanation for varying gravity?