[Discussing a flat Earth]
No pilot will ever circumnavigate earth by magically "just going in a straight line"
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I hope that this is one of the poes who comprise the base of that site.
Otherwise, I'll be sure to watch out for the ice wall when I have a try.
Then why don't you ask a pilot how they circumnavigate the Earth? I'm sure they, of all people, could testify about the Earth's flatness, right?
No pilot will ever circumnavigate earth by magically "just going in a straight line"
As long as the flight plan of that "straight line" maintains a constant altitude above the surface of the Earth, yes he will. As far as his eyeballs can gather he is traveling in a straight line due to the gentle curvature of the surface. Of course his instruments tell the real tale.
Is there really a flat Earth society or is this some kind of counter-cultural in-joke?
Then why don't you ask a pilot how they circumnavigate the Earth? I'm sure they, of all people, could testify about the Earth's flatness, right?
It's all a f***in' conspiracty between pilots, Jews, and evil-lootionists!! You'll see someday!
They're all poes, but definitely need sterilising. Some of them have got over 3000 posts, which is just an atrocious amount of time devoted to asshattery.
"TEH GUVVANTMENT WANTS MUNNEY N POWUR LOLOLOLOLOL LOOK AT ME I'M SO ORIGINUL"
The International Flat Earth Society was founded about 1800 in Great Britain and the U.S. as an outgrowth of the Zetetic Society.
THE EARTH IS FLAT GUYS!!!!
a bunch of homosexual Darwinists came up with the round earth theory!!!!!!!
they are trying to ruin our children!
Convert Convert!
the earth is 6,000 years old too!
Barak Obama IS muslim!
there i tink i've covered every fundie argument for this post.
p.s. let me know if i forgot some lol. :P
^ REPENT! REPENT!
:)? That work?
Assuming that "narcberry" isn't a Poe but a genuine stupid fundie,
just mentioning the term "Geodesic" will already blow his mind, because his intellectual capacity is much too less developed to even grasp slightly the meaning of this concept.
Up until several years ago, the Humber Bridge in my locale (Hull) was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
It uses steel cabling, in which - if you took apart such and laid the individual strands end to end, would go around the earth 1.5 times.
The main supports are so precisely designed & engineered, they are an inch wider at the top than at the bottom, to take into account the curvature of the Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Bridge#Bridge_statistics
"No pilot will ever circumnavigate earth by magically "just going in a straight line"
In an episode of "Top Gear", James 'Captain Slow' May annihilates his nickname, by going full-tilt in a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (1,125 BHP, 253 MPH by May):
www.dailymotion.com/video/xeayrr_james-may-maxes-new-bugatti-veyron_shortfilms
On Volkswagen's test track near the former East German border. The five mile straight is so straight, you can even see the curvature of the Earth.
Annihilated argument much, narcberry?
Within the limitations of a piloted planes altitude it's as straight as it can get.
Straight travel needs Saturn or shuttle rockets, and in the end the Earth spins behind them and they go off a bit.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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