Message from @Siriusly

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2019-04-15 12:26:59 UTC  

Most of them are, yes. A lot of flat earthers are scientifically illiterate and try to come up with weird explanations themselves. Truth of the matter is, nobody can know for certain. The reason why I'm a flat earther is that the evidence for a spherical earth is very wobbly and based on assumptions at best. In that regard I simply apply occam's razor to the question and pick the most simple answer; namely facts what we *can* observe without the needs for assumptions, such as the earth remaining flat at high altitudes and laser experiments showing that there's no curvature whatsoever

2019-04-15 12:28:03 UTC  

I'd like to see those laser experiments tbh

2019-04-15 12:28:55 UTC  

Also thank you for giving actual answers to my legitimate questions
Even the mods here can't do that.

2019-04-15 12:31:14 UTC  

These guys made a series of laser experiments on different lakes to compensate for any differences in altitude, as well as accounting for refraction and whatnot

2019-04-15 12:33:05 UTC  

Did they compensate somehow for the small size?

2019-04-15 12:35:10 UTC  

More or less, IIRC they used a more exact approximation for the supposed earth's curvature rather than the Taylor Approximation used by civil engineering, so even at small distances *especially* they should get results well within the margin of error for approximations

2019-04-15 12:38:57 UTC  

25 miles is what they measured apparently?
That's not nearly enough, the round earth is massive and 25 miles is absolutely nothing compared to the whole.

2019-04-15 12:40:02 UTC  

Grr X (

2019-04-15 12:40:18 UTC  

i gave u friggn responses. You must not've liked 'em

2019-04-15 12:40:20 UTC  

I'm not wrong

2019-04-15 12:40:37 UTC  

You gave no evidence to back your statements

2019-04-15 12:40:43 UTC  

And not a single number

2019-04-15 12:40:51 UTC  

Yes, but with precise laser experiments you ought to find a curvature *for* those 25 miles. It would be a small one, but a curvature nonetheless.

2019-04-15 12:41:19 UTC  

The curvature would likely be too small to measure with such a short distance

2019-04-15 12:41:40 UTC  

It would be more probmatic to actually measure over longer distances since the margin of error would increase to a point where you can't be sure about your measurements anymore

2019-04-15 12:42:40 UTC  

Technically it would be possible given enough time and money but no one cares enough about what the earth is shaped like to spend millions on a project like that.

2019-04-15 12:43:20 UTC  

With the equipment used in the above test raising the distance would definitely throw in unknown variables but it's that or not enough distance.
Either way the experiment is flawed

2019-04-15 12:45:20 UTC  

Also keep in mind, at 25 miles we would expect about 400 feet of curvature when using the Taylor approximation, and for 25 feet the approximation itself is perfectly fine

2019-04-15 12:46:24 UTC  

Taylor approximation?

2019-04-15 12:46:36 UTC  

Mhm

2019-04-15 12:46:39 UTC  

Hold on

2019-04-15 12:54:42 UTC  

Here, this website adequately explains how the formula is derived using Taylor approximation

2019-04-15 16:01:04 UTC  

Earth ain't flat

2019-04-15 19:55:16 UTC  

Uhuh

2019-04-15 22:16:12 UTC  

Oof I can't send images

2019-04-15 23:06:24 UTC  

Everone knows that ther is no earth

2019-04-15 23:06:48 UTC  

We live on the sun and the goveremtn is trying tocover it up

2019-04-15 23:12:44 UTC  

bush did 9/11

2019-04-16 01:09:47 UTC  

pp

2019-04-16 02:34:37 UTC  

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2112gchild.html Wild childs, children stripped of society and culture.

2019-04-16 13:15:46 UTC  

Hey

2019-04-16 20:15:46 UTC  

Why isn't it a norm to have your DNA sequences under insurance, if it was truly for our benefit of healthcare that one time $100-150 test saves tons of wasted time and money in the medical field; and adds precision in learning to treat and manage diseases....?

2019-04-16 20:15:55 UTC  

We have the technology

2019-04-16 20:16:09 UTC  

but only the rich use it

2019-04-16 21:40:51 UTC  

has anyone here heard of john titor

2019-04-16 21:42:25 UTC  

Yes i heard of it and Google refreshed my memory lol

2019-04-16 21:44:42 UTC  

No