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Seems legit.

Reminds me of the US Congressman who thought Guam would sink if we put too many Marines there.

Or the daytime talk show host who didn't know the Earth was round because she was too busy raising her kids to think about that kind of stuff...

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Well the jokes on him, cause Nasir al-Din al-Tusi proved such nonsense ridiculous in 1272

   
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No Flat Earthers here to agree with him? I am disappointed, Dakka!
   
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 Frazzled wrote:
It revolves around me.

Well, stop eating the twinkies.

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Twinkies do have a shelf life.

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And he said it on Galileo's birthday!

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 Frazzled wrote:
Twinkies do have a shelf life.


I would have thought they wouldn't make it to a shelf in your house...


Wow, what idiocy. Someone really needs to clam this guy up.

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 nels1031 wrote:
And he said it on Galileo's birthday!


Guess Galileo was rotating in his grave.






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I've figured it out, he isn't getting any. It's been a long time since the earth moved for him.



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No Flat Earthers here to agree with him? I am disappointed, Dakka!


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!
   
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 loki old fart wrote:
I've figured it out, he isn't getting any. It's been a long time since the earth moved for him.

He cares naught for physical pleasures in this life, he's holding out for his camel virgins in the next one.


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 Dreadwinter wrote:


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!


Just because something is flat doesn't mean it lacks depth. The earth could still be hollow and flat. Anyway, if the earth isn't hollow then where do the ufos come from?

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Computron wrote:
 loki old fart wrote:
I've figured it out, he isn't getting any. It's been a long time since the earth moved for him.

He cares naught for physical pleasures in this life, he's holding out for his camel virgins in the next one.


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 Dreadwinter wrote:


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!


Just because something is flat doesn't mean it lacks depth. The earth could still be hollow and flat. Anyway, if the earth isn't hollow then where do the ufos come from?

The moon, didn't you know it's just a big spaceship.



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 loki old fart wrote:
Computron wrote:
 loki old fart wrote:
I've figured it out, he isn't getting any. It's been a long time since the earth moved for him.

He cares naught for physical pleasures in this life, he's holding out for his camel virgins in the next one.


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 Dreadwinter wrote:


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!


Just because something is flat doesn't mean it lacks depth. The earth could still be hollow and flat. Anyway, if the earth isn't hollow then where do the ufos come from?

The moon, didn't you know it's just a big spaceship.


No,

the UFO's come from Mars & Venus.

See Christians and Muslims have common flat ground

 
   
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Bran Dawri wrote:
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No Flat Earthers here to agree with him? I am disappointed, Dakka!


The earth cannot be flat because no one has yet seen a giant turtle.... or a chest with legs, let me rephrase that, a chest with many, many legs.

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The irony is, he uses a plane in his example. Which would imply that he might have been on a plane, and noticed how his coffee did not suddenly flit to the rear at 400 mph. Could it be that the same forces that make coffee appear stationary while on a fast moving plane, also make planes appear stationary on a fast moving Earth? For a plane to remain truly "still" relative to the Earth, as he suggests, and wait for China to come to it, the plane would need to burn huge amounts of fuel in order to overcome that initial inertia and slow down (to say nothing of the atmosphere).

Interestingly, scientist have used the cosmic background radiation to measure the speed of The Earth, going around The Sun, going around The Galaxy, flying through The Universe. The CBR is about the closest thing we have to a fixed point, and our actual speed is about 1.3 million miles per hour.



   
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 Dreadwinter wrote:
Bran Dawri wrote:
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No Flat Earthers here to agree with him? I am disappointed, Dakka!


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!



It's both simultaneously... Seriously, the Earth is like a giant Oreo cookie... It just so happens that when you travel over the "edge" the switch happens so quickly you don't even notice it happening!
   
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While everyone recognises this guy is a complete idiot, it's interesting to note how much his argument relies on the same kind of 'common sense' anecdotes that the anti-science arguments uses in supposed controversies like vaccination and climate change. Next time you hear someone trying to challenge the scientific establishment with arguments from common sense, just remember it's the same kind of crap that led at least one idiot to believe the Earth doesn't rotate the Sun.

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Is it just my computer or the guy is speaking in arabic.... so how can any of you guys know he is talking about the earth?

Oh it is a joke right?

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david choe wrote:
Is it just my computer or the guy is speaking in arabic.... so how can any of you guys know he is talking about the earth?

Oh it is a joke right?


It's these kind of commonsense arguments that ruin science David, damn flat earth apologist

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david choe wrote:
Is it just my computer or the guy is speaking in arabic.... so how can any of you guys know he is talking about the earth?

Oh it is a joke right?


I've not watched the embedded version, but I've seen a translated one.
It's not a joke.

I train Royal Saudi Air Force personnel out in KSA.
One of the flight training navigation manuals states "For the purposes of this training exercise we will assume the earth is round"

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 Dreadwinter wrote:
Bran Dawri wrote:
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No Flat Earthers here to agree with him? I am disappointed, Dakka!


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!



But if space time continuum is bend, can the earth truly be flat?

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 marv335 wrote:
I train Royal Saudi Air Force personnel out in KSA.
One of the flight training navigation manuals states "For the purposes of this training exercise we will assume the earth is round"

Well, tecnically it's legitimate, cause earth not spherical, it's more of an ellipsoid.

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sirlynchmob wrote:
 loki old fart wrote:
Computron wrote:
 loki old fart wrote:
I've figured it out, he isn't getting any. It's been a long time since the earth moved for him.

He cares naught for physical pleasures in this life, he's holding out for his camel virgins in the next one.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
 Dreadwinter wrote:


The Earth cannot be hollow if it is flat!


Just because something is flat doesn't mean it lacks depth. The earth could still be hollow and flat. Anyway, if the earth isn't hollow then where do the ufos come from?

The moon, didn't you know it's just a big spaceship.


No,

the UFO's come from Mars & Venus.

See Christians and Muslims have common flat ground


Fools! UFO's are coming out of the Ocean, from their secret bases in Hollow Earth! They live their with the Lizardmen, they only leave to lay down chem trails and abduct civilians for "testing".
   
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david choe wrote:
Is it just my computer or the guy is speaking in arabic.... so how can any of you guys know he is talking about the earth?

Oh it is a joke right?


http://tribune.com.pk/story/839624/saudi-cleric-claims-earth-is-stationary-does-not-revolve-around-sun/

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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
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 marv335 wrote:
david choe wrote:
Is it just my computer or the guy is speaking in arabic.... so how can any of you guys know he is talking about the earth?

Oh it is a joke right?




I train Royal Saudi Air Force personnel out in KSA.
One of the flight training navigation manuals states "For the purposes of this training exercise we will assume the earth is round"



What in the actual feth ?

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