The Flat Earth Conspiracy
Those who are able to see beyond shadows will never be understood.
April Fools Day
The Earth from Space. (that’s Atlanta GA in the centre)
A bunch of conspiracy theorists who persist in believing that the Earth is flat are planning a trip to Antarctica to see ‘the end of the world’. I think they really mean the “edge of the world”, but you wouldn’t expect anyone who believes in a flat Earth to have a good grasp of semantics.
Good luck on that trip. If the Earth really was as flat as a pancake they would never get there because all navigation by sea and air relies entirely on the fact that the Earth is an oblate spheroid ~ that is not at all flat.
Mind you, as the next meeting of the Flat Earth International Conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, the spiritual home of conspiracy theories. I’m guessing that their meetings are filled with febrile debates about nothing that is within shouting distance of reality. You know what? I would have expected the Flat Earth Bunch to be headquartered in California, where they really do know how to party with psychoactive substances.
There is no evidence whatsoever for a flat Earth, other than the evidence of our own eyes when our feet are planted firmly on the ground. In that case, when we look around us, the Earth does seem flat ~ other than hills and mountains, and valleys, and gorges….. The Pythagorean theorem, one of the oldest mathematical proofs in Euclidian Geometry, is predicated on the Earth being flat. However, Pythagoras falls apart when great distances across the Earth are involved, in which case we need to use spherical trigonometry. (Which only works for big balls.)
As far back as Columbus in 1492 AD, navigators knew the Earth was a spheroid, although Columbus got the circumference badly wrong. The Norse Vikings knew the Earth was a sphere when they travelled to America in about 1,000 AD. The Ancient Greeks were thinking about a spherical Earth in the 6th Century BC, and before that the Phoenicians navigated great distances based on the idea that the Earth was a sphere.
The Moon is a sphere too
Only in the Bible is the idea of a flat Earth much popularised, and as we all know, everything in the bible can be treated as the Gospel Truth. However, if you are interested in exploring the flat Earth conundrum, the Flat Earth Society has a cool website https://www.tfes.org/
Some say that NASA’s sole reason for existence is to propagandize the public and promote this false ball-Earth heliocentric worldview. And that there was never a moon landing, it was all shot in a studio in Culver City. All I know is that some gullible fools are eager to believe the stupidest pseudo-scientific dross. And the moon really is made of green cheese.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
some say that real women have absolutely no sense of direction, and that no woman will ever admit that they’re wrong, some of that is mostly true
Real Celestial Navigation
All Life on Earth springs from sunshine, tides, and seasons.
All Life on Earth is governed by the Sun, the Moon, and the stars.
At night most men can reliably find their Pole Star, which in the Northern Hemisphere is Polaris. If you can find the pole star you can travel in any direction you wish. In daylight it’s easier, all you need to find north / south is sunshine and a stick, although a watch does help.
Why would anyone need any of this when we have satellite navigation? You will know if ever your batteries fail. Even the Navies of the world are going back to teaching celestial navigation.
But there is more to it than that. Our very personalities may well be driven by the relative positions of the sun, moon, and the stars. I would bet that everyone reading this knows their star sign. Mine is Aries, and I am an archetypical Aries.; selfish, quick-tempered, adventurous, impulsive, foolhardy… Almost every guy and all the woman I know are fairly typical of their star sign’s supposed character traits.
How does that work? Damned if I know. It could be gravitational, day-length, cosmic rays, or the etherial spirituality of the cosmos… One thing I can guarantee, a real astrologer can tell almost everything about you if they know the time, date, and place of birth.
There are some fundamental questions we could ask ourselves;
Should I be able to read a map?
Do I always need to know where north is?
Is it only very stupid people who rely on satellite navigation systems?
Should I make a habit of asking women what their star sign is before I date them?
When my personal astrologer makes a prediction, do I need to take it seriously, or can I safely ignore her?
Ask yourself, is the truth really out there?
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