woodman (26th February 2020)
It is widely believed that the path of a thrown baseball follows a parabola. This is incorrect. In Euclidean space the baseball follows a straight line but space is curved due to the presence of Earths gravity and so the appearance of the path is as an arc.
Neuro (4th March 2020)
Hmmm yes by the same reasoning earths surface is flat in Euclidean space but space is curved due to the presence of Earths gravity so it appears globular. But then all the measurements presented in this thread that tend to prove that earth is flat would actually prove that earth is instead concave. Like earths surface is actually on the inside of a sphere, which makes the observations of sunsets totally absurd
Cultural Marxism: -The idea that good, hard working, white people should pay for those who are not, and thus in the name of equality create the conditions for their own genetic annihilation
ziero0 (4th March 2020)
Sight is a sense. Analysis of what you see belongs to logic and memory. Memory means you are relying upon past observations. But memory can be faulty as can the logic based upon it. It also means you base the future on the past. They call this the gamblers fallacy. Concentrate instead in the present and memory/logic issues go away. What you SEE is all you GET.
midnight rambler (4th March 2020)
This is a very good flat earth video, and a very good youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwelRMZQwns&t=1746s
Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. <br />And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.<br />Mark 16-17
osoab (12th February 2022)
Earth's magnetic field. Not "gravity".
Websters 1828.
GRAV'ITY, noun [Latin gravitas, from gravis, heavy. See Grave.]
1. Weight; heaviness.
2. In philosophy, that force by which bodies tend or are pressed or drawn towards the center of the earth, or towards some other center, or the effect of that force; in which last sense gravity is synonymous with weight.
Gravity is the tendency of great bodies to a center, or the sum or results of all the attractions of all the molecules composing a great body.
3. Specific gravity the weight belonging to an equal bulk of every different substance. Thus the exact weight of a cubic inch of gold, compared with that of a cubic inch of gold, compared with that of a cubic inch of water or tin, is called its specific gravity The specific gravity of bodies is usually ascertained by weighing them in distilled water.
4. Seriousness; sobriety of manners; solemnity of deportment or character.
Great Cato there, for gravity renowned.
5. Weight; enormity; atrociousness; as the gravity of an injury. [Not used.
6. In music, lowness of sound.
Grave
GRAVE, a final syllable, is a grove.
GRAVE, verb transitive preterit tense graved; participle passive graven or graved. [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]
1. To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]
Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Exodus 28:9.
2. To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Exodus 20:4.
3. To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.
4. To entomb. [Unusual.]
GRAVE, verb intransitive To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.
GRAVE, noun [Latin scrobs.]
1. The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.
2. A tomb.
3. Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality. Flanders was formerly the grave of English armies. Russia proved to be the grave of the French army under Bonaparte. The tropical climates are the grave of American seamen and of British soldiers.
4. Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]
Is "gravity" just a place where the dead congregate? Just dead weight?
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
Earth's magnetic field is going away being 4.5 gauss 2000 years ago and .4 gauss presently.
Do you have an experiment that will demonstrate that the path followed by a baseball 2000 years ago is different than the trajectory today?