Could check if water is level when they do end up in the drink
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Put a flat earthier into space
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So we'll be able to see these new points of light moving over us on the dome like we see the current starlink ones.
Amazing effort to keep the lie going
Can't be launching it on Xmas Eve, it might shoot Rudolph down.
Although it does prove it's just being launched to hit the dome and fall back down. I mean Xmas Eve, nobody wants to be at work, is sticking whiskey in their coffee and phoning the job in. You wouldn't risk all that money and effort for real on an Xmas Eve launch
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payne
Striker
probably on the piss all year this charlatans
True those astrophysicists, astronauts, geologists, cartographers etc have nothing to do but get pissed and make up stories and get paid for it.
It's the pilots and ships captains that have the hard job of making sure no one ever glimpses their real navigation charts. Those things must be guarded tighter than the nuclear launch codes
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DaveH
Striker
It is a nice retirement for test pilots - being an astronaut.
The majority of astronauts are test pilots and that job in itself tends to attract a certain type. Often large personalities, like the attention, have always pushed the boundaries and seen themselves as a dare devil. They built a career by being an exceptional pilot (usually military), then going to the higher risk of being the first to fly certain models of plane or even experimental planes. We all have something that drives us and it is the speed, the danger and the thrill for them. Some of the ultimate adrenaline junkies, which a very high level of fitness, physical ability and intelligence to go with it.
And then at some point in their career they go through a grueling physical and mental training and selection program. Put in all this work, ensure their fitness is at it's peak, might do something like an engineering degree on the side as well as learning Russian. Only the best of the class get through, but their career so far has been built on being the best. And those absolute elite get selected and quietly sit in film studios or secret hotels for ages pretending them have been to space. Some are 'away' for a year or more and know they could walk out the door any minute and see their families.
A career of pushing the boundaries and then a sudden switch to feed up, telly on, nice cup of tea, sit back and just spin a few lies to the world and thank the lord you have put all that faffing about at Mach 5 in experimental aircraft behind you. All knowing that you have played your part in keeping an important lie going, because if the world found out we lived on a lemon squeezer then surely we would all go nuts.
Doesn't really fit does it?
payne
Striker
I've always found it odd that
better than believing the utter nonsense that is globe earth. 100% not a spinning globe 93 million miles massive in space vacuum walk sail upon told flat level unhindered
So @Nukehasslefan I can learn to fly, buy air navigation charts based on a global earth and successfully navigate.
How does that work? When do I get let into the lie and be issued with the "real" navigation charts?
How does that work? When do I get let into the lie and be issued with the "real" navigation charts?
Nukehasslefan
Winger
Based on a global Earth?
Do you sit with a global map whilst you're flying?
You can navigate around a circle by going from point to point on that circle. A chart can offer those points.
No globe required.
All you need to know is whether your plane flies horizontally to it's next point. If it does then you're flying on a circle. If the plane has to alter altitude to cater for a curvature then you're on a globe.
You know this doesn't happen and for good reason. We are not on a spinning globe.
fyl2u
Striker
Someone REALLY doesn't understand how circles work.
Or aeroplanes.
Or the concept of scale.
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taipeisafc
Striker
Someone REALLY doesn't understand how circles work.
Or aeroplanes.
Or the concept of scale.
That was flat earth BS 101 one utter clown even took a spirit level on a flight to prove it.
Nukehasslefan
Winger
Circles or your Earth ball?
Someone REALLY doesn't understand how circles work.
Or aeroplanes.
Or the concept of scale.
Your ball has to curve 8 inches per mile squared, approximately.
A plane flying over that ball would have to alter to altitude to cater for it.
We get told they build bridges that cater for the curvature.
Does the plane dip it's nose to cater for the supposed curvature? If so, how.
fyl2u
Striker
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Nukehasslefan
Winger
Let's deal with cruising altitude.
fyl2u
Striker
Let's.
In your own words, tell us what the word "altitude" means, then explain why that would need to "be altered to cater for" flying around a globe.
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You haven't answered the question
Nukehasslefan
Winger
I have. It's the only way it can be answered and it poses a new question.
fyl2u
Striker
You still haven't answered mine.
No you tried to talk about how flight works, which has already been explained and is not what I raised.
If I want to fly from Sydney to Cape Town, I can buy an air navigation chart to show me the recognised air routes, which aren't straight lines, they allow for the curvature of the earth, I can calculate the distance and therefore the fuel required. Then I get in a plane and fly that route.
But if as you say the earth is not a globe, the routes would take me in the wrong direction and the distance on your world would be significantly longer, so if I used commercially available air navigation charts I would get lost over the ocean and run out of fuel.
Obviously that doesn't happen, so at what point would the secret be revealed and I would be given the accurate charts that every pilot must have for the aviation business to work as it does?
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