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re: Baseball rpi
Posted on 4/13/23 at 12:12 am to Yeti_Chaser
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
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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.
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