BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 Goes to this man.. https://jezebel.com/man-intends-to-prove-the-earth-is-flat-by-launching-him-1820665235 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Author Posted November 22, 2017 It's powered by steam! AdamSmith 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 1 hour ago, BiBottomBoy said: It's powered by steam! The Divine Afflatus! Quote
Members MsAnn Posted November 22, 2017 Members Posted November 22, 2017 13 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: The Divine Afflatus! Had to look that one up... AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members RA1 Posted November 22, 2017 Members Posted November 22, 2017 There is no reality other than perception. Best regards, RA1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Author Posted November 22, 2017 So you gonna get in a home made rocket? Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 23 minutes ago, RA1 said: There is no reality other than perception. Best regards, RA1 Actually, the counter-intuitive reality of relativity and quantum mechanics would seem to suggest somewhat the opposite...? Likewise the fact that non-Euclidean geometry turns out to describe space-time more accurately than the conventional 'common-sense' Euclidean version. 'If the idea is not at first absurd, then there is no hope for it.' -- Einstein MsAnn 1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Author Posted November 22, 2017 It also proves the earth is flat Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 22 minutes ago, BiBottomBoy said: It also proves the earth is flat An illusion owing to its actually being cube-shaped. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Author Posted November 22, 2017 Resting on a million turtles AdamSmith 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 35 minutes ago, BiBottomBoy said: Resting on a million turtles "All the way down!" Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 22, 2017 Posted November 22, 2017 P.S. Isn't there a Hindu creation myth about the earth resting on the back of a sacred monkey? MsAnn 1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Author Posted November 22, 2017 Turtles it is! AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members RA1 Posted November 22, 2017 Members Posted November 22, 2017 Well it is just a personal perspective. If I don't perceive it, it may not exist (then) for me. No, I am not going to get into a home made rocket. I am not too keen on home made airplanes either, although they are legal. And no, the earth is not flat even though it could be perceived that way. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 22, 2017 Author Posted November 22, 2017 The homemade rocket will be awesome when it crashes AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members RA1 Posted November 22, 2017 Members Posted November 22, 2017 Why do you think a home made rocket will get far enough off the ground to crash? Most likely it will self destruct on the launching pad or simply fizzle. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith and Tartegogo 1 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 23, 2017 Posted November 23, 2017 1 hour ago, RA1 said: Why do you think a home made rocket will get far enough off the ground to crash? Most likely it will self destruct on the launching pad or simply fizzle. Best regards, RA1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 23, 2017 Posted November 23, 2017 I think I have noted before that it took Herr von Braun to say to us: "If your core design goal is lightness, you are never going to get a rocket structure sufficient to withstand the rigors of flight. "Permit me first to design you a brick shithouse of a spacecraft that will survive flight. Then we will find a way to make the engines capable of lifting it!" That is why the then-extant Air Force rocket establishment, which resented his intrusion into their realm, liked to denigrate his Huntsville, AL operation as "The Chicago Bridge & Iron Works." Which turned out to be exactly the right approach! Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 23, 2017 Author Posted November 23, 2017 Come on we can't wish for the death of a flat earther? Quote
AdamSmith Posted November 23, 2017 Posted November 23, 2017 1 hour ago, BiBottomBoy said: Come on we can't wish for the death of a flat earther? We always do. Quote
Members Tartegogo Posted November 23, 2017 Members Posted November 23, 2017 4 hours ago, BiBottomBoy said: Come on we can't wish for the death of a flat earther? I certainly wish for their financial ruin, at least. Once all the idiots have run out of money because they spent it on stupid projects like this, the brights will happily continue to run the world. AdamSmith 1 Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted November 23, 2017 Author Posted November 23, 2017 Tartegogo that's probably true. Quote
