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Nukehasslefan said:
I asked if you knew what gravity is.

Can you show me what gravity is.
I know you've been told what it does. It allows mass to attract mass or something, in your book, right?

What is it as a force?
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FFS - it's in the link!

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Read it you silly ar*e, you might learn something
 
cosmicchris00 said:
FFS - it's in the link!

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Read it you silly ar*e, you might learn something
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I'm asking you.
Osklen said:
The only way that works is if north/south is the way you are facing? If north or south is fixed then you could not fly in a circle to get back to the point where you started.
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If you set your compass to East or west you will simply fly in a circle and back to your starting point....if it was followed accurately.
Osklen said:
The only way that works is if north/south is the way you are facing? If north or south is fixed then you could not fly in a circle to get back to the point where you started.
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If you set your compass to east or west you will simply fly in a circle and back to your starting point....if it was followed accurately.
 
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Nukehasslefan said:
I'm asking you.

If you set your compass to East or west you will simply fly in a circle and back to your starting point....if it was followed accurately.

If you set your compass to east or west you will simply fly in a circle and back to your starting point....if it was followed accurately.
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Can you show me proof
 
Nukehasslefan said:
I don't see anything different from people like yourself.
It works both ways.
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It really doesn't. I'm not the one asserting nonsense which has no basis In reality and has just been made up and non testable.

You seem to contest science fact which is testable and what makes the modern world possible.

You're just like a young earth creationist who bangs on about teaching the controversy when trying to deny the age of the earth and saying man walked with dinosaurs.

Pure fantasy land.
 
cosmicchris00 said:
I hold postgraduate engineering qualifications so don't need convincing and am not the problem here.

You however have a clear and present inability to follow advice, also possibly having had some kind of mental episode.

Dribble on bro
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All you have learned is just made up made. The fact you can apply it to real world engineering probablems is just coincidence
 
Nukehasslefan said:
I love science and I have the highest regard for real scientists.
The issue is in trusting the one's that are theoretical down to pseudo
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You have made some amazingly bizarre comments but the one i have quoted above is about the dumbest. Who is a real scientist? Galileo, copernicus, newton, einstein?
 
Nukehasslefan said:
You're making an assumption that people are stood with their backs to the centre of a circle and arguing that they can't see the southern cross.

That's no argument.
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Perhaps I did a crap job of describing the scenario I was talking about.

Imagine we all live on a dartboard:
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If we have a number of people living on the treble line and they look at something above the bullseye, where north is the bullseye, they all see the same thing. Someone living on treble 20 looks at the same thing as someone living on the treble 6 only it a different way round. This matches what we observe so all good.

Now imagine those people turn around so their backs are away from the bull, opposite of north is south, so they all walk in opposite directions from each other, getting further apart until they hit the double line. Someone standing on the double 20 looks up into the night sky and can see something. The person living on the double 6 looks up and sees something different, it can't be the same thing as the person on the 20 as they have their back to it. They are looking at a different side of the dome. Now picture someone on the double 1 looking straight ahead/due 'south' they don't see the southern cross that 20 saw straight ahead because that is 18 degrees to the left. They can not both see it straight ahead. If there was some strange light thing going on, what about someone half way between the two on 9 degrees?

This does not match observational evidence. This leaves three possibilities.
1) Everyone who has ever observed the southern night sky is telling a lie to cover up the flat earth scenario
2) The earth is not a flat dartboard like structure
3) There is something really odd going on where no matter which direction you look at south, the dome shows you the same picture only rotated.

Which one is it? If it is 3, can you explain how that can possibly work? You like to use the planetarium example. Does that effect ever happen in planetarium?

Until someone can provide some evidence of how this might work and not some handwavey thing saying "oh you can't see it because it is what you have been lead to believe" then I don't think the idea has any credibility at all.
 
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