Is it referring to how a majority of rocket technology of Cold War era came from German scientists?

That’s probably it

Oh yes absolutely it was all kinds of knowledge and advances

German scientists were world leaders in the realm of knowledge and discoveries at the time

Truly brilliant individuals

Elon Musk hell yeah

South Africa is a safe bet right

All right what’s wrong with South Africa

Lay it on me

What are these photos that show light bending up

I just wanna know what it looks like cause like

?

Do you mean like a beam of light shone through air actually bends *upward*

Astrophysics is hella interesting

Takes a lot of work but super interesting

Also hey while I’m here I’ve always wondered something about flat earthers but never had the chance to ask

Even if earth is flat or round or whatever else you wanna believe, why does it matter?

Like we are all very obviously alive here and not directly affected by the shape of the planet we live on

Now who in 2019 aside from top level well trained professionals will be going to space

I’m just legitimately curious about why it matters to you and me

Common folks like us

I mean no other animal on the planet thinks about much of anything complex much less the shape of the planet

And they get on just fine

What does the shape of the planet have to do with “doing the right thing” though

I’m not trying to pester you, I’m just really curious

I understand that general beliefs are fundamental parts that make up morals and all that but what does the shape of the planet have to do with that

The only time it ever even comes to mind is if I have some spare time and am just thinking about random stuff for the hell of it

it has never factored into any part of my morals or major decision making

I could attack the flat earth model and the logic of it all but why do that when the concept of arguing over it doesn’t really add up in the first place

I know humans are competitive creatures by nature and will look for conflict where it may not even exist, but I feel like surely there could be a more fulfilling or logical conflict than arguing over the shape of the planet

Well then let’s argue over the shape of the planet when space travel is widely available

I know curiosity and deep thought are grand concepts that have launched humanity eons ahead of other species

Absolutely

I know in the scheme of things I’ll always be hit with labels like atheist and “globe earther” I guess but those labels leave me misinterpreted by the vast majority

Because the truth is that I don’t want to blatantly attack any viewpoint

I’m honestly open to anything

I simply favor whichever has been further proven from my perspective

It’s a figure of speech what do you want me to say

Hypothesis: Gravity accelerates things towards each other

Procedure: Measure the forces and motion of large interacting bodies observable from earth

Use several sets of bodies to decrease possible error

Well for motion there are several ways

Depending on the distance you can use anything from triangulation by parallax to doppler shifts to hubble’s law

Or a combination

for forces use those measurements and use basic equations of physics to solve for the forces

You actually don’t and i’ll tell you why

You need a telescope that can track coordinates if you want to be really accurate but you can free hand it for a ball park estimate

But here’s how you can measure movement

Use some form of celestial body distance measurement tool like I mentioned before

Yes and I’m explaining how

So now that you know the distance to said body you can plot its position in the sky

Hubble’s law is a convenient tool

I won’t explain Hubble’s law cause you can look it up

Anyways it’s an easy way to see how far away stuff is

That’s what a hypothesis is

I’m not jumping to a conclusion

I’m proposing a conclusion to see whether i can prove it

Anyways let me continue

Plot its position with your regular telescope

Now wait 6 months and see how far it has moved

Now compare that to where you’d expect it to be based on calculations using the distance previously obtained

I never said that

??

Hubble’s law tells you how far away stuff is

A useful tool to determine how stuff moves

It’s basically the relationship between distance and the rate at which stuff is accelerating away from us

Caused by expansion

Lit

All right so

Idk moving channels really cut off the flow of conversation

Relationship between distance and rate of acceleration away from us caused by expansion

Oh shoot i’m trying to think of how to do this

Cause it doesn’t really fit any analogy because it’s literally telling how far something is away based on how reality itself expands in between us

Not a whole lot of common household objects that behave that way

Mind explaining what each type entails?

I haven’t heard of there being two types

What do you mean by mass v mass

As in like mass attracts mass

Grav they have an answer for that

Constant acceleration “upward”

or whatever

Then what do they think is real

@rivenator12113 what about density attracts you down

Oooh buoyancy hmmm

Yeah air is matter just like anything else

So what holds air in place

Oh right

Ideally you’d have chosen two relatively isolated bodies and just analyze the forces acting on them and try to trace a source for each one

Oh boy is wind fake now too

There go my plans of flying a kite

Also there are lots of gases denser than air so we’d all suffocate at the bottom

Well actually air is pretty homogenous mixture so maybe we wouldn’t suffocate

f l e r f

Oh you mean on this server

That sounds like a slur lel

Back when hygiene didn’t exist

I’m always a little confused as to why people proscribe to the flat earth stuff though

is it out of rebellion

who knows

I mean