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Flat Earth Theory / Re: "Empirical" Evidence

« on: May 24, 2014, 02:51:16 AM »

Yes, but there is simply no point in trying to make people think the earth is round. Ok, the earth is flat, now what? For a sizable chunk of humans alive today, the shape of the earth really doesn't matter. My friend that is a gas station cashier really doesn't give 2 flying fucks about stuff like this, because it doesn't effect him. So why would governments and scientists try and convince us? Thats what point I was making. And the whole North Korea thing doesn't matter, because North Korean's as a whole probably don't give a shit about space, they are just trying not to starve to death under the heel of a tyrant. They waste their money on propaganda like that, it really doesn't do anything for them.

I agree completely. As a scientist I could not care less about the shape of the Earth. I only care about the things I need for my everyday life. How long will the airplane trip to Europe be? Where should I point my telescope to? How long will this new road be?

If I could get any answers at all starting from a flat Earth, I would be more than happy to accept this. But the answers are just not there. Only useless explanations after the fact.

I would, however, find a worldwide conspiracy about the shape of the Earth in less than a month. Maybe even in less than a week. And I would blow the top off the Conspiracy and become famous and rich in less than a year.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Coriolis Effect

« on: May 23, 2014, 03:37:45 PM »

Rowbotham didn't know about the South Pole because it hadn't been discovered yet. Flat Earthers corrected the model in the early 20th Century. The model is used in the early 1900's book "The Sea-Earth Globe and and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions" by Albert Smith, whereupon the FET split into two models. The Bi-Polar model was forgotten over time, but revived in recent years by myself and others.

Your very own hero, James Clarke Ross, not only knew about the South Pole, but he circumnavigated it, and even got to within some tens of kilometers from the magnetic South Pole, some 20 years before Rowbotham's book!

Thousands of navigators and geographers did what every scientist does: they made predictions that were eventually verified by explorers and other scientists. Most or all of what James Clarke Ross found, as far as maps and charts is concerned, was already known. He added a lot of cartographic information about the details of Antarctica's shoreline, but all the rest that he found was more or less what had already been predicted by scientists.

I believe he found a lot of previously unknown information about the magnetic characteristics of the Magnetic South Pole, but all the rest was not a huge surprise.