Yup - like I’ve said on the Trump threads when met with the same dilemma of “Is this bloke a dribbling idiot or is he just pretending to be a dribbling idiot?” The end result is the same. He appears to be a dribbling idiot and that’s enough for me!
Just look at his dismissal of a globe based on planes maintaining level flight. Imagine driving on a straight road in flat terrain. The steering wheel would be straight up ‘12 o’ clock’. Now imagine negotiating a very shallow curve - say one with a radius of a mile. You’d barely have to adjust the steering wheel just a tiny fraction off 12 o’ clock to complete the curve.
Now imagine moving the road example above 90 degrees so we’re in a plane not a car, and negotiationg the curve of the earth not a shallow bend in the road. The radius of that arc is the radius of the earth plus the height of the plane, so about 3900 miles plus another 35 000 feet. Imagine the fraction of a degree off ‘true’ you’d have to adjust to maintain level flight over a distance of say the flight I’m about to take from Tampa to DC, which is 920 miles.
@DaveH I think you said you already calculated this adjustment to be miniscule but our resident dribbler seems unable to wrap his head around that very simple example, and that’s before we even add the effect of [non existent!] gravity.
Like I said, it’s best just to scroll past the absolute cobblers he posts and just enjoy the other contributions!