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re: Baseball rpi
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:24 pm to LSUStar
Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:24 pm to LSUStar
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What? That’s your evidence? Get a spotting scope and go to Lake Ponchartrain. Look down the causeway or across the lake. One can see the waterline of boats several miles away. Not possible if the earth’s geometry is what we are told.
Go look down the power lines in the curve of the Bonet Carre spillway and watch them dip down the further away they get with the curvature of the earth. (This spot is called flat earthers end)
Seeing the tops of masts from a long distance away doesn't prove a thing. But not being able to see the bottoms of the buildings in the city southbound does.
Flat earthers just like to argue because no one is that stupid.
RPI is a shite metric.
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Posted on 4/12/23 at 11:09 pm to LSUStar
Are you that stupid, or just never flown in a plane ever. You can literally see a curve.
I can go on and on but flat earthers are fricking dumb.
I can go on and on but flat earthers are fricking dumb.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 12:12 am to Yeti_Chaser
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No one ever understands RPI. It's like the curvature of the earth. We all just accept it as fact despite being unable to provide evidence
There is one very simple way that the curvature of the earth has been proven, without drowning people in technical jargon. Sailors have observed ships sailing away in front of them, and watched as the masts disappeared below the horizon. This would not be possible on water, because water seeks its own level, unless the earth were curved. Gravity holds everything down, and the water wraps around the curves, just like everything else. If it were not so, people would fall off the earth, trying to discover the answers to these questions. It's really quite simple.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 12:19 am
Posted on 4/13/23 at 12:14 am to da prophet
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Kentucky comes into the weekend at 8-1, no. 1 RPI. Georgia comes into the weekend at 1-8, no. 56 RPI. Georgia wins 2 of 3 and moves up from 56 to 37 RPI. Kentucky remains at no. 1 RPI? WTF
They have the most Top 50 rpi wins in the country with 15 (going 15-4). LSU in comparison has only 8 Top 50 wins (8-4). UK's 4th-ranked strength of schedule along with Top 50 wins helped propel them to #1 in the rpi rankings.
We'll see if that last as they play the tougher SEC teams coming up. There is a difference in playing Top 50 rpi teams like MSU, Mizzou, UGA, and Bama vs. Arkansas, A&M, Tennessee, and USCe like what LSU has had to play so far in conference play. They play a tough back-half of conference play with us, A&M, Tenn, USCe, Vandy, and Florida. With all the injuries we have now, I'm glad we got the tough stretch of conference play out of the way while others have to go through the gauntlet at the end.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 12:16 am
Posted on 4/13/23 at 12:52 am to Metaloctopus
As the overwhelming consensus is that the Earth is round, I think the onus of proof falls on the flat-Earthers, and any argument that boils down to "it looks flat" isn't going to cut it. No, someone needs to travel to the edge of the Earth and bring us video evidence. Otherwise it's just "How do you know she is a witch?" and "Because she looks like one."
There is one argument that is worthwhile, but the flat-Earthers never use it (because it isn't the flat Earth they mean). To an observer that is approaching Earth at 99.9999991% the speed of light (which is actually the speed of the protons colliding in the LHC at CERN), the Earth would be about 8000 miles across and about 1 mile thick, which is pretty much flat. As all observers viewpoints are valid, so is this one.
There is one argument that is worthwhile, but the flat-Earthers never use it (because it isn't the flat Earth they mean). To an observer that is approaching Earth at 99.9999991% the speed of light (which is actually the speed of the protons colliding in the LHC at CERN), the Earth would be about 8000 miles across and about 1 mile thick, which is pretty much flat. As all observers viewpoints are valid, so is this one.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 6:58 am to Yeti_Chaser
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It's like the curvature of the earth. We all just accept it as fact despite being unable to provide evidence
I can provide evidence of the curvature of the earth. I've see the earth's shadow on the moon. I've seen ships sailing into the distance gradually disappear.
I've never done the experiment myself, but I've read about Eratosthenes' calculations...
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The measurement of Earth's circumference is the most famous among the results obtained by Eratosthenes,[13] who estimated that the meridian has a length of 252,000 stadia (39,060 to 40,320 kilometres (24,270 to 25,050 mi)), with an error on the real value between -2.4% and +0.8% (assuming a value for the stadion between 155 and 160 metres (509 and 525 ft)).[2] Eratosthenes described his arc measurement technique,[14] in a book entitled On the measure of the Earth, which has not been preserved. However, a simplified version of the method has been preserved, as described by Cleomedes.[15]
The simplified method works by considering two cities along the same meridian and measuring both the distance between them and the difference in angles of the shadows cast by the sun on a vertical rod (a gnomon) in each city at noon on the summer solstice. The two cities used were Alexandria and Syene (modern Aswan), and the distance between the cities was measured by professional bematists.[16] A geometric calculation reveals that the circumference of the Earth is the distance between the two cities divided by the difference in shadow angles expressed as a fraction of one turn.
If you don't consider these things evidence than there is no evidence for anything.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:31 am to da prophet
RPI doesn't take into account strength of schedule or conference records. It skews more favorably to overall opponent win-loss records, especially wins on the road.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:38 am to Penrod
what the hell is going on up in this thread?
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:42 am to Penrod
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:51 am to Notclamdip
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what the hell is going on up in this thread?
Buncha frickin nerds missed a joke and started doing math instead
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 10:52 am
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