Flat Earthers...
05-31-2017, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Left Handed
What he is saying is that the calculations of latitude and longitude are plotted on a curved surface. The formulas needed to convert it to a flat grid, because the world is flat, are immense. It of course takes many years of schooling to learn all these calculations properly. Otherwise you would get lost. That is what he is saying
05-31-2017, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by pokey9554
Yeah, well then where did Xi throw the bottle?
06-01-2017, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Judge Smails
Do you by chance fly Air Force One?
06-01-2017, 04:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Left Handed
What he is saying is that the calculations of latitude and longitude are plotted on a curved surface. The formulas needed to convert it to a flat grid, because the world is flat, are immense. It of course takes many years of schooling to learn all these calculations properly. Otherwise you would get lost. That is what he is saying
Get off my lawn.
06-01-2017, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by tomgoodman
Or, in simple terms for the passengers, "Pilots can fold space".
06-01-2017, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Poser765
As long as the spice flows.
06-01-2017, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by tomgoodman
Or, in simple terms for the passengers, "Pilots can fold space".
What's the name of this cursed desert planet again?
06-01-2017, 06:20 PM
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First we are chemtrailing, now we are hiding the fact the Earth is flat.....We are soon about to be burned for being witches here.
06-01-2017, 07:18 PM
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The Western Africans, thought the White people were devils who came from inside the Earth, because they would see the tops of their masts first, and then see the ships rise up out of the sea.
On a UAL flight a few years ago, there was a near-passenger mutiny. It was on an East Coast-Europe trans-Atlantic flight. One of the pax saw the routing on the IFE, and knew the pilot was lost, or someone had taken over the plane, because they weren't going straight East to Europe. Instead, they were flying North, towards Maine and Canada. The pax asked a FA about it, and didn't get a response that he liked. He ended up convincing a LOT of the passengers that something was very wrong in the cockpit. The Capt had to spend a good amount of time on the PA explaining flat maps vs. a globe, and how the shortest route looks like a curve on a flat map...
If everyone had Ms. Eagan, like I did, for Grade 7 and 8 Geography, this thread wouldn't exist.
On a UAL flight a few years ago, there was a near-passenger mutiny. It was on an East Coast-Europe trans-Atlantic flight. One of the pax saw the routing on the IFE, and knew the pilot was lost, or someone had taken over the plane, because they weren't going straight East to Europe. Instead, they were flying North, towards Maine and Canada. The pax asked a FA about it, and didn't get a response that he liked. He ended up convincing a LOT of the passengers that something was very wrong in the cockpit. The Capt had to spend a good amount of time on the PA explaining flat maps vs. a globe, and how the shortest route looks like a curve on a flat map...
If everyone had Ms. Eagan, like I did, for Grade 7 and 8 Geography, this thread wouldn't exist.
06-02-2017, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by thevagabond
adding CO2 to a closed system doesn't in fact explain the easily discerned changes which are taking place, then it's not much of a reach for them to look out the window and declare the Earth flat.
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