ads274 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I was wandering aimlessly across the internet the other day (as you do) and somehow came upon the website for the "flat earth society". For those who haven't heard of it, it's a group of people who firmly believe the earth is not a sphere but is in fact flat. Not just based on religious beliefs, they claim to have experiments that PROVE the earth is flat. Naturally i was sceptical at first (to put it mildly) but i read the FAQ and although i'm not convinced the theory does appear to be plausible. Tell me what you guys reckon. Link to the site http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum// Direct link to FAQ: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11211.0 See what you make of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Bless, still it keeps them busy I suppose, amusing in many ways Q: "What's underneath the Earth?" aka "What's on the bottom?" aka "What's on the other side?" A: This is unknown. Some believe it to be just rocks, others believe the Earth rests on the back of four elephants and a turtle. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Well, it worked for Terry Pratchett... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukApache Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 nutters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibbleyuk Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 lmao some people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbonut Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Well, it worked for Terry Pratchett... Not balanced on a big turtle called Atuin and 4 elephants is it?? Lx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 ok then!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Not balanced on a big turtle called Atuin and 4 elephants is it?? Lx It has to be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezz Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 What a load of old b****cks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffleman Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Some people have too much time or drugs available to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Ok then answer me this...if it's round, how come the people at the bottom don't fall off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Ok then answer me this...if it's round, how come the people at the bottom don't fall off. Or get severe headaches!! I always thought it was flat anyway..... H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 If it's flat, why is there a horizon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 If it's flat, why is there a horizon? That's silly. It's just a long way away. People would fall over the edge if it wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbonut Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 That's silly. It's just a long way away. People would fall over the edge if it wasn't. Maybe theres a big net underneath Lx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 If it's flat, why is there a horizon? Even if it's flat you'd get a horizon.. just the top of the biggest hill. Now if it was a world like in the ring world novels, that would be cool... Pic pic and a random pic for good measure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gzaerojon Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Q: "If the world was really flat, what would happen if you jump off the disc's edge?" A: You would enter an inertial reference frame, moving at a constant velocity in the direction the Earth was moving before you jumped. The Earth would continue accelerating upwards past you at a rate of 1g, so it would appear to you that you were falling into space. you are havin a bubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 you are havin a bubble That bit's the only bit that's scientifically true!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Moving on from my previous comment, about the horizon: The magazine, Science Digest, goes on to state, "If it is a sphere, the surface of a large body of water must be curved. The Johnsons have checked the surfaces of Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea (a shallow salt lake in southern California near the Mexican border) without detecting any curvature." Surely a body of water will fill any container, and be flat across it's surface? So a lake will have a flat surface, even though the solid equivalent should be rounded as per the round earth, because the whole thing is pulled towards the centre of the earth at the same rate. So how come there IS a horizon? With this it suggests the seas should be flat, so if you look out to sea it should be flat and you should be able to see (at an odd downward angle) the next country along - so maybe they're right? (or is it just that a large body of water like an ocean reacts to gravity from a central point below it in a different way to a smaller body of water, and therefore no curvature is measured across a lake whereas there is curvature of an ocean surface?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbonut Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Just found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon I'm sure there must be a scientific bod here who can translate...doh... Lx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 What about those big pictures of the roundy-shapey planet from low earth orbit Or is it all a guv'mint conspirasee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Just found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon I'm sure there must be a scientific bod here who can translate...doh... Lx Well this bit's important: for viewers near the ground, the difference between this geometrical horizon (which assumes a perfectly flat, infinite ground plane) and the true horizon (which assumes a spherical Earth surface) is typically imperceptibly small. That is, if the Earth were truly flat, there would still be a visible horizon line, and, to ground based viewers, its position and appearance would not be significantly different from what we see on our curved Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtgaz Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 It will be curved if its contained against a force like gravity. I cant see why they debate it. If someone got a direct boat ride round the world they would end up in the same place. Why would they lie about the earth being round lol thats my lame answer lol That link is saying how the horizon is effected by height. They higher you are the more the horizon changes i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 The earth is flat try telling that to people who live in the highlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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