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Flat Earth Community / How do we know the Earth is spherical?

« on: January 31, 2016, 07:21:39 PM »

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Flat Earth Community / Conspiracies... how long can they really last?

« on: January 30, 2016, 08:14:58 PM »

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-equation-large-scale-conspiracies-quickly-reveal.html

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Science & Alternative Science / Feynman Lectures

« on: October 18, 2015, 08:30:22 PM »

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

No need to pay to learn advanced sciences in this day and age ;-)

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Science & Alternative Science / Earth's Tides

« on: August 29, 2015, 04:43:39 AM »

Best explanation of tides I have found in a while.

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Technology & Information / Opening windows with external shutters on the ISS

« on: May 10, 2015, 04:34:14 AM »

Really fun to see how feats of engineering operate in space where simple mistakes would be deadly.

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Science & Alternative Science / Watch Scott Kelly's launch live

« on: March 27, 2015, 07:35:47 PM »

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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Technology & Information / The Orbital Mechanics

« on: March 27, 2015, 06:57:01 PM »

A fun podcast series about the difficulty of space travel and some of the many innovations used to overcome these problems.
It's all about different aspects of the mechanics of getting to and working in space.

http://www.theorbitalmechanics.com/show-notes/

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Flat Earth Theory / No gravity on Earth

« on: January 09, 2015, 09:41:45 AM »

I was reading the Flat-Earth wiki and was a little surprised that gravity was removed from the model of the flat-Earth in order to make it work. So... what we are calling gravity is really the acceleration of the Earth in a direction opposite of what we would consider 'down'?
Ok... trying to wrap my head around that. Are there any experiments done that can be shared to confirm? Any evidence of this claim? Or is it simply a proposed mechanism in order to get the Flat-Earth idea around the need for gravity?
I am all for new cool thoughts, but this would require replicable evidence to start believing...