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From: COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (The Pentagonal Potentate and the Kzinti Ambassador)
Newsgroups: talk.origins,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flat Earth?  More mindless drivel.
Summary: "Great snappin' assholes in the sky, Martha." Richard Sexton
Keywords: Mescaline-flavored Jell-O brain-damaged morons
Message-ID: <32726COK@PSUVMA>
Date: 11 Feb 88 10:21:07 GMT
References: <10731@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <292@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1947@culdev1.UUCP> <299@ivory <304@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: Syd Barrett Cabal & the Unnamed Conspiracy
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In article <304@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) says:
>
>In article <22891@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:
>>Well, you could try laying out some large triangles in several sufficiently
>>smooth regions and measuring the angles to see whether or not they add up to
>>180 degrees, and if not, whether the discrepency is consistent over the
>>Earth's surface.
>
>Not bad, except I would guess that the triangles would have to be large enough
>that I couldn't see that other two vertices from one. And who knows what errors
>from local distortions would enter due to this.
>
>>Or take a trip to New Zealand and look at all the pretty new
>>constellations.
>
>I've been there. All this shows is that the stars are a good deal closer
>to the earth than the "scientists" have led us to believe.
     
Hey, fuckhead, ever heard of a little thing called "parallax?"  [A short
explanation of parallax follows for the braindead:  parallax is the apparent
motion of nearby stars.  The closer the star, the more the parallax motion.
The information gained from parallax is totally in agreement with the
information gained from red-shift studies as to how far away a star is.
Explanation for the even more braindamaged: Open one eye.  Look at the scene
before you.  Now close that eye and open the other.  The scene shifts by
several degrees for nearby objects and hardly at all for far away ones.  This
is a form of parallax.  (Explanation provided by The Kzinti Ambassador,
an Astro major who just happens to hate Platypus Boys)]
     
>
>> Or observe a few lunar eclipses, and note the curved edge of
>>the Earth's shadow, which retains roughly the same curvature in any direction.
>
>What has a lunar eclipse got to do with the Earth? You prove it's the Earth
>causing the shadow, I can't do it objectively.
     
When did they start giving USENET access to kindergarteners?  Have you ever
wondered why the moon has phases?  Have you ever wondered what tides are?
Have you ever fucking SEEN a lunar eclipse?  No, probably not.  It seems
more likely you'd be out fucking sheep, or other platygeans.
     
>
>>But I have a better idea...how about if some platygean tells us how to
>>falsify the hypothesis that the earth is flat?  That should seperate the
>>theorists from the dogmatists...
>
>Geez, I don't know. It's kind of obvious from where I'm standing that the
>Earth is flat!
     
It's kind of obvious from where I'm standing that you are one of the single
most brain-damaged idiots on the net.  Get a life.
     
>
>--
>Michael Lodman  (619) 485-3335
>Advanced Development NCR Corporation E&M San Diego
>mike.lodman@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM
>{sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA,ihnp4}!ncr-sd!ivory!mike
>
>When you die, if you've been very, very good, you'll go to ... Montana.
     
I hope you go to Montana soon.  Very soon.  Right now.
     
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