@nerd I'm willing to meet at a middle ground of the Earth being an oblate tetrahedron.

Two vertices at the poles, three at equidistant points around the equator, and the sides bulging out.

Okay, well I'm rping right now. Like corgi said, he runs a political nation states server

Err, one at one of the poles

Three arpund the globe

I dunno

The problem is no curvature

Well if the sides bulge a *lot* ...

That's theory

To accommodate an assumed model

Tetrahedron is the smallest number of vertices and faces to enclose a sphere in a geodesic form so I'm willing to go that far.

So you dont believe in gravity?

Why believe in a theory?

How could gravity work in that case.

How would believing in a theory help anybody do anything...

I don't. I'm just saying, if you are going to be honest, then why not look at the flat earth evidence

https://youtu.be/Yf9Bt5WFZKs

😁

Still think it should be the theme song of the server

I mean if I was solving some engineering problem I would use a vector pointed toward the nearest presumed center of gravity with a scalar of 9.8m/s^2 , doesn't mean I "believe in" something, it's just practical application of observable phenomena.

So it will be kinda hard to trip me up on that point.

*center of Earth gravity, or 1G

If I had some rrason to believe I was working with variable G forces and multiple bodies I would hope a computer was doing the math?

have you seen there is places on earth suface where gravity is missing?

scientists are baffled by it for decades

Where gravity is... Missing?

they came up with theory on top of theory to explain it

I'm passingly familiar with gravitational anomalies.

Like, entirely missing?

No.

I am willing to allow there might be a singularity at the core of the Earth.

just missing in the sense that it does not match the standard models predictions

And of course completely willing to cede to hollow earth theories due to that.

Ah

I would want to know where magma comes from in that case though.

they make up things like mantle convection and 10000 year old ice sheets causing the anomaly.

I think gravitational and magnetic anomalies might be interrelated somehow. We're lacking a unifying theory of physics for that atm sadly.

10000 year old ice sheets that lasted for 10000 years and dispeared 10000 years ago. quite the stretch

gtg for a bit. have some chores to do, bbl

@HyperBaroque good chat thx

I think if we really put in the work, we could find a best fit for a tetrahedral model of earth, 4 equidistant points between which some observable surface features suggest bulging faces, and at which points some subsurface features suggest some correlating fracturing or something.