The earth is flat?

[retslock]

Humans made up mathematical language, but the pythagorean theorem works no matter what you call the variables or other signs. Also lots of people are dummies.

Yes I’ve always believed that we didn’t invent maths, just the language and the procedures for calculation. Like you said, the numbers and relationships have always been there no matter what you call them.

 

[Quinn Roberts]

Turtles All The Way Down

"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports the earth on its back. It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, which itself is part of a column of increasingly large turtles that continues indefinitely (i.e. "turtles all the way down").

The exact origin of the phrase is uncertain."

 

[retslock]

People in Australia are skeeerooood!

No man I’ve got these big magnetic boots that keep me safe. I’m good, mind you the birds here fly upside down but you get used to it.

 

[TOOL460002]

No man I’ve got these big magnetic boots that keep me safe. I’m good, mind you the birds here fly upside down but you get used to it.

That explains the kangaroo pouches! Keeps the joeys safe from gravity. Man, I'm learning a lot about fauna these days.

 

[Jeff Scott]

The earth is flat?

The moon is still made out of cheese, too. Perhaps, weird tasting cheese, but cheese, nonetheless. Want some cheese, Gromit?

 

[two fingers]

The moon is still made out of cheese, too. Perhaps, weird tasting cheese, but cheese, nonetheless. Want some cheese, Gromit?

Something went wrong with your quote. I never said what you quoted.

 

[Mr_Moo]

It makes them feel special, like they know secret information.
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.

I've been dealing with a lot of this recently.

 

[sigterm]

I've been dealing with a lot of this recently.

Does it hurt when the effect wears off?

 

[Jeff Scott]

You're right, sorry; not sure how that happned. Here's the correct version:

The earth is flat?

The moon is still made out of cheese, too. Perhaps, weird tasting cheese, but cheese, nonetheless. Want some cheese, Gromit?

 

[Mr_Moo]

It also presumes that since the beginning of human consciousness there have been holographic images. Oh, wait: Aliens From The 8th Dimension must have installed them. Of course! Why didn't I think of that?

8 dimensions? I thought we'd already established that there are only two.

 

[Mr_Moo]

The most amusing thing to come out of flat earthery lately is the Pacman Earth.

This theory states that the Earth is flat, and we are able to travel 'around' it in the same way that Pacman moves instantly from the top to the bottom of the screen, or from one side to the other. In the Pacman game, this is achieved by using a hypothetical higher dimension, in this case the third dimension.

As it happens, this has been well studied in the field of mathematics known as topology. Topologists even have a name for this higher dimensional topology, which shows that the flat earthers are close to exposing the truth.



The name of the topology?

It's called a sphere.

 

[Mr_Moo]

Look how gravity is pulling on his hair!

Oh wait.................gravity doesn't actually exist. Sorry. I forgot!

That's quite right. We know that the Earth is flat, because otherwise everything would fall off due to gravity, duh. Proving in turn that gravity - like Australia - doesn't exist.
I don't know why Round Earthers can't understand something so simple.

 

[Mr_Moo]

Does it hurt when the effect wears off?

Yes.

 

[Downunderwonder]

Here's something else to make you scratch your noggen. Any person that is or was some sort of surveyor, already knew this dating all the way back to Egypt. Adjustments have to be made when surveying an area larger than one square mile, speciffically for the curvature of the earth. the instrumentation that we use only "shoots" a straight line distance and doesn't account for the curvature of the earth.

What is the distance across the diagonal of a square mile?

 

[Matthew_84]

Lol, that’s a pretty good point... I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a plane dip its nose to land.

 

[TOOL460002]

It's all about metal

Like a fjorged iron block?

 

[Element Zero]

The most amusing thing to come out of flat earthery lately is the Pacman Earth.

This theory states that the Earth is flat, and we are able to travel 'around' it in the same way that Pacman moves instantly from the top to the bottom of the screen, or from one side to the other. In the Pacman game, this is achieved by using a hypothetical higher dimension, in this case the third dimension.

As it happens, this has been well studied in the field of mathematics known as topology. Topologists even have a name for this higher dimensional topology, which shows that the flat earthers are close to exposing the truth.



The name of the topology?

It's called a sphere.

 

[shadowtippy]

8 dimensions? I thought we'd already established that there are only two.

There are at least five dimensions. The fifth one sang "Age of Aquarius."

 

[RadioactiveGuy4]

I guess that I'm pleasantly surprised that we can all agree that the earth is round. Just don't get us started on tone woods...

 

[Gaolee]

This kinda makes me want to try out one of those expensive Fjodera basses!

They are way more expensive than my Fjender J bass or Fjender P bass.

I prefer a Fjunderbird.