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kain
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RoFlat earth?
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Apr 18 21:58 UTC 1995 |
We have a project to do. We haev to make a model of the earth thats not round
and prove it's that shpape. do any of you have any ideas? and if not have you
ever doubted that the earth was round?
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nephi
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response 1 of 25:
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Apr 18 23:26 UTC 1995 |
If your definition of "round" is "spherical", your project will
be simple, because the Earth is *not* spherical. It's an
ellipsoid!
<nephi smiles>
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zook
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response 2 of 25:
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Apr 18 23:58 UTC 1995 |
I always thought it was an oblate spheroid...
<Zook smiles, then ducks nephi's right>
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steve
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response 3 of 25:
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Apr 19 00:44 UTC 1995 |
Make it a cube! Please!
Back when I was a kid, one of my best friends collected Superman
comics of all sorts. I must have read a couple thousand of the DC
flavor over a ten year period or so. One of the neatest concepts
in the Superman world was the "Bizarro" culture, where everything
was skewed. They wern't bad, but they were bizarre. Their
implementation of the Earth was a cube.
Please honor the thought of the Bizarro world and make your
model a cube.
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davel
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response 4 of 25:
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Apr 19 01:09 UTC 1995 |
For whatever shape you pick, some promising approaches:
- proof by intimidation
- proof by guilt-inducement
- proof by inability of spherical-Earth advocates to deal with
problems in their theory
etc.
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janc
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response 5 of 25:
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Apr 19 03:27 UTC 1995 |
- proof by reference to authority is also a good one. Does Terry Pratchett
count as an authority?
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rcurl
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response 6 of 25:
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Apr 19 06:12 UTC 1995 |
You can't prove its any shape because it isn't. Its fractal.
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other
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response 7 of 25:
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Apr 19 06:33 UTC 1995 |
I theorize that the Earth is all shapes, depending upon your dimension of
perspective.
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peacefrg
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response 8 of 25:
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Apr 19 13:46 UTC 1995 |
The Earth is flat. When they proved it was round, it was. But after all these
years of spinning it flattened itself out. And we're getting bigger too from
spinning. Thats why we have earthquakes all of the time.
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popcorn
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response 9 of 25:
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Apr 19 14:20 UTC 1995 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 10 of 25:
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Apr 19 16:04 UTC 1995 |
Whatever shape you think it is must be compatible with the shadow of the
earth on the moon, whatever shape you think that is.
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peacefrg
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response 11 of 25:
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Apr 19 19:48 UTC 1995 |
The darkness of the moon has nothing to do with shadow...
On the moon they have little bugs that reproduce like mad. And as the month
goes on they keep reproducing and reporoducing, until the end of the month when
the whole moon is covered with them. Then they all die out by self-imploding
from the gravity of the moon getting too close to the earth at the end og the
month. And we start all over again.
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kain
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response 12 of 25:
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Apr 19 20:06 UTC 1995 |
thanks for all your input guys I'll consider this stuff
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zook
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response 13 of 25:
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Apr 20 01:40 UTC 1995 |
I assume Proof by Rocket is not allowed?
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kain
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response 14 of 25:
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Apr 20 01:47 UTC 1995 |
But htere's the light bending theory of einstien!
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rogue
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response 15 of 25:
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Apr 20 01:59 UTC 1995 |
#0: You should simply state that your culture tells you that the earth is
in the shape of a pyramid and if the school system tells you otherwise
they are being oppressive and xenophobic. You shouldn't have to prove
anything.
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popcorn
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response 16 of 25:
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Apr 20 16:02 UTC 1995 |
This response has been erased.
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kain
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response 17 of 25:
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Apr 23 02:58 UTC 1995 |
YEZ!!!!!!!!!!
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kain
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response 18 of 25:
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Apr 25 19:37 UTC 1995 |
minor crisus it's due in 2 days (including today and I can't figure out if it
started out round how it got cpmpressed inot the shape of a football!
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kain
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response 19 of 25:
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Apr 25 23:23 UTC 1995 |
or a grain of rice, nevermind folks I'll figure it out!
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nephi
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response 20 of 25:
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Apr 27 02:25 UTC 1995 |
I thought that the Earth was wider than it was tall.
Am I wrong about this?
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kain
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response 21 of 25:
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Apr 27 10:56 UTC 1995 |
no time to explain now I will later.
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dadroc
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response 22 of 25:
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Apr 28 16:40 UTC 1995 |
And I thought the earth was like a Pizza and we were but pieces of peperoni
in the great sauce of cultures...
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kain
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response 23 of 25:
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Apr 29 19:14 UTC 1995 |
uh... okay
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mur123
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response 24 of 25:
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Nov 15 21:46 UTC 2000 |
i dont know how to chat interactively can you help me
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