Expert prognosis for the planet

[Captain Snooze]

"Surprising. Astounding. Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering. Flabbergasting. Disquieting. Gobsmacking. Shocking. Mind boggling."
Ed Hawkins
Climate scientist, NCAS/University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE




I am of the opinion we're f*cked.

[Unplugem]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

This is correct. Someone can believe in anything magical and believe in things that are objective at the same time. Kids believe in Santa Claus and can understand that germs come from microbes at the same time, and adults can do the same thing with magical thinking.

The problem is when people like Unplugem have to reconcile being a fundamentalist/literalist, beholden to his holy book, with what we know through science. When he claims the world is flat, the earth is 6000-10000 years old, or whatever, he goes from being typically irrational to being atypically irrational, making giant leaps of mental gymnastics and conspiracy theories to maintain his irrational beliefs.

If the earth was spherical, it would have to curve 8"/mile squared, yet we have plenty of perfectly flat sections of earth, where this "theory" can be tested and the tests show that there are hundreds of miles without curvature or drop of any kind.
I'm just happy that I no longer believe in a reverse-engineered, satanic paradigm, full of (not so) hidden clues, that give away its author. It's just pagan sun worship that has been repackaged for folks, who believe that their 100x great-grandfather was a chimpanzee; going to the zoo must feel like a real family reunion for you folks. My condolences.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

If the earth was spherical, it would have to curve 8"/mile squared, yet we have plenty of perfectly flat sections of earth, where this "theory" can be tested and the tests show that there are hundreds of miles without curvature or drop of any kind.
I'm just happy that I no longer believe in a reverse-engineered, satanic paradigm, full of (not so) hidden clues, that give away its author. It's just pagan sun worship that has been repackaged for folks, who believe that their 100x great-grandfather was a chimpanzee; going to the zoo must feel like a real family reunion for you folks. My condolences.

https://sports.yahoo.com/guys-experi...222351900.html

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

..ships over the horizon..

Surely you know the counter response to the ship videos is the earth isn't round, but that the ship sank. Probably need to run the videos in reverse so you can see the ship appear gradually rather than disappear.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Surely you know the counter response to the ship videos is the earth isn't round, but that the ship sank. Probably need to run the videos in reverse so you can see the ship appear gradually rather than disappear.

Come on now Dadhawk. I expect better from you. Ships don’t sink straight down like water is quicksand. You’re smart enough to know that. Show me a video or image of a ship sinking that wasn’t on it’s side or had the nose in the air. Unplugem is rubbing off on you.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

Come on now Dadhawk. I expect better from you. Ships don’t sink straight down like water is quicksand. You’re smart enough to know that. Show me a video or image of a ship sinking that wasn’t on it’s side or had the nose in the air. Unplugem is rubbing off on you.

Ha! you got me there.

[Unplugem]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

https://sports.yahoo.com/guys-experi...222351900.html

Rookie mistake buddy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WzbZwxN1gzhx/
It's called the law of perspective. You have to love how modern camera zoom technology blows their lie wide open.
P.S. I know Eric Dubay is controlled opposition, but this video by him is accurate, so I posted it here.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

Rookie mistake buddy.
[url]https://www.bitchute.com/video/WzbZwxN1gzhx....

@Irace86.2.0 It's time to recognize a lost cause....

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Unplugem

Rookie mistake buddy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WzbZwxN1gzhx/
It's called the law of perspective. You have to love how modern camera zoom technology blows their lie wide open.
P.S. I know Eric Dubay is controlled opposition, but this video by him is accurate, so I posted it here.

No, wrong again. This is not forced perspective. Forced perspective makes things look smaller, but doesn't make things disappear. If things were flat, you would see something appears to be getting smaller, but if you used a telescope you could see ALL of the object. In videos of sail ships, the entire ship drops below the horizon on a calm ocean day, so unless there are thirty foot swells hiding the boat, which there are not, you are seeing the curvature of the earth.

Even in that video, he is confusing two phenomena by showing a ship in a water swell being blocked from view, which is different to masts disappearing over the horizon because of the curvature of the earth.

Why don't you get into a plane, use the North Star and a compass to travel east and end up right back where you started?

Why don't you go to a large lake with a powerful laser, and you stand on a shore and your buddy stands on the other 40 miles away, and see if you can see a laser beam held horizontally?

What is your explanation for a lunar eclipse showing a round shadow of the earth on the moon regardless of where the moon is?

What is your explanation for the fact that at any time people from around the world can look up at the sky at night with their naked eyes or with a telescope in the day and see the moon, planets and stars, but they see a different sky? Why don't you have a thousand people from all over the world snap a picture of the sky at the same time, and if it is entirely the same then the earth is flat, but it isn't that way, so what is your explanation? Why can't everyone on the planet see the moon and/or sun at the same time?

[Spuds]

Why can't you see Polaris in the southern hemisphere, but it's always in roughly the same spot in the northern hemisphere?

Why does radar have longer ground-measured ranges from an airplane than from a ship at sea, despite having a longer slant range due to altitude?

Why does the Coriolis Effect change depending on your latitude?

Why has unplugem not sold his box yet!?!?

So many questions.

[Spuds]

As a real on topic post, I was chatting with my neighbor (~60 y/o?) who has lived in the area his whole life. He was telling me it used to get actually cold here in the winter with full-on snowstorms and everything, and summers were tolerable. Last 4 years I've been here it's snowed just enough to accumulate like 3 times the first 2 years with quite hot summers. In case anyone needed anecdotal climate change accounts. Maybe I should move back north...

[Captain Snooze]

"An ancient Greek astronomer named Eratosthenes was the first man to measure the size of the Earth accurately. His method was very simple: he measured the angle made by a shadow cast from a vertical stick in two different cities on the same day and time. With the help of another teacher, you can recreate Eratosthenes’ experiment
and your students can measure the size of the Earth for themselves! All you will need is two yardsticks, a protractor, a magnetic compass, and a bit of string."
Source

[Racecomp Engineering]

Originally Posted by Spuds

As a real on topic post, I was chatting with my neighbor (~60 y/o?) who has lived in the area his whole life. He was telling me it used to get actually cold here in the winter with full-on snowstorms and everything, and summers were tolerable. Last 4 years I've been here it's snowed just enough to accumulate like 3 times the first 2 years with quite hot summers. In case anyone needed anecdotal climate change accounts. Maybe I should move back north...

One thing that's interesting is that yes...in the mid-atlantic our winters are noticeably warmer...but we still have plenty of ice/slush/crap days plus more development and roads so we're still putting down plenty of road salt. Salt also tends to stick around for a long time...it doesn't really breakdown.

Road salt. Bad for cars, infrastructure (including drinking water), and teh fishes and critters.

- Andrew

[x808drifter]

Should just replace it with Brawndo. It's got electrolytes. AKA salt. It's what plants and therefore what animals crave.