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The earth is flat, vandal writes on Riverside's Mount Rubidoux
By IMRAN GHORI / STAFF WRITER Published: Feb. 14, 2017 Updated: Feb. 15, 2017 5:09 p.m.
In the past few weeks, an unusual message began showing up along the northwestern side of Riverside’s Mount Rubidoux.
In large letters, someone had carved into the grass the words, in all capitals: “GOOGLE FLAT EARTH.”
Huh?
Adolfo Cruz, the city’s director of parks, recreation and community services, says employees have met the man they think is responsible and know his motive.
“The gentleman was telling the staff member that we live on a flat earth,” said Cruz, who added that the man was very passionate about that viewpoint.
City parks workers began noticing the words – created by removing grass – about a month ago, Cruz said. Employees had just reseeded the hillside near Carlson Dog Park where the 10-by-4-foot letters were carved, he said.
Parks workers reseeded the hill again. But the culprit began writing the words again and larger – this time 25 feet by 10 feet, Cruz said. The carvings likely took “hours and hours of work,” he said.
“He’s done quite a bit of damage there that will cause further damage when it rains and it creates erosion,” Cruz said.
Parks workers saw the man they believe is the culprit at least once before, Cruz said. Also, a city employee saw him again Monday coming down the hill, he said.
The man wore an orange vest and carried a shovel and pick, he said. The employee confronted the man and shot video of the encounter on his phone.
Because of concerns about the man’s mental state, Cruz told workers to let police handle the situation. The city gave police the video and a license plate number for the man’s car.
Riverside police spokesman Officer Ryan Railsback said officers are investigating. The suspect could be cited for vandalism or violating a city ordinance, he said.
Cruz said the city is calculating its costs, estimated at $400, and could seek reimbursement from the suspect.
City workers already have worked to make the words illegible and are reseeding the area again.
“It will grow back, but we just want him to stop,” he said.
“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
You need 7 points to find a position in 3D space.
Can I get God to do my tax return? The universe is....... Elementary?
https://sagesigmaunbound.com/2017/02...es/#more-14911
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Anytime I'm in doubt I go outside and give it a little shake.
Liberty Tree.
I see this argument drift into pissing contests all over the place. I fail to see what a flat or a round Earth has to do with me and the price of potatoes!
Who gives a rat's ass what shape it is? I got bigger problems to figure out without needing to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt....whatever the cost... what shape the Earth is in.(Well, that's actually a different discussion but, you know what I mean) Be the Earth flat or be it round, I always get where I want to go, the Sun rises and sets, the weather and environment supports human life quite comfortably....I'm good!
If you're offended by any of my posts tough shit!
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Niggers will never be satisfied!!
monty (1st March 2017)
Several people from different locations on the "globe" are taking video/photos at the same time. The resultant images are along the lines of those in Shami's post.
Except!!
Something potentially interesting being observed. Reading the comments is interesting. The gist is: viewing the moon from 2 different locations at the same time should result in slightly different surface areas being visible to each observer. Not just upside down vs right side up. But craters/surface area should be visible to one observer and not to another and vice versa.
This might be completely a factor of the distance both observers are from the moon and the size of it. IMO this should be testable using scale models.
Great minds discuss Ideas, Average minds discuss Events, Small minds discuss People. E.R.
Anytime I'm in doubt I go outside and give it a little shake.
Liberty Tree.
North South Circumnavigation.
I've said that there were no true north south circumnavigations of earth. Based on the paths traveled by those who claimed to circumnavigate the globe across both poles, it looked like they went up/down one side to a pole then traveled up/down the same side to the other pole. i.e. up/down west coast Americas then up/down east coast Americas. Same for the African continent. No one appears to have gone over the top of both poles in a more or less straight line.
I've also stated that I didn't believe Fiennes is a legitimate north south circumnavigator. My reasons were: distance traveled was far in excess of the circumference of the globe AND there was no map available. I'm going from memory on the map. I would need to search a bit more on this thread to confirm I didn't see a map or that no one else posted one. It's possible someone has and I don't recall. Please feel free to clear that up for me if you can.
I found this one when getting side tracked trying to find the North Pole on google earth. (Hint for Google: It should be at the top somewhere.)
I can't embed the image: So here's a link
It purports to be based on the "official" expedition map, which is unavailable at this time and that Fiennes circumnavigated across both poles. However I'm still confused by the Distances traveled. They are on the first page I linked. I can't replicate them here because its a table that gets messed up. What I don't understand are the 2 x 12,430 mile legs that appear to be included as part of the journey. They only have co-ordinates of:
90:00N 0:00E 90:00S 0:00E 180 degrees (S) 183 degrees (S) 12,430 mi
90:00N 180:00E 90:00S 180:00E 180 degrees (S) 183 degrees (S) 12,430 mi
I don't know what that means. The miles are included in the Total miles traveled. It's almost as if, they started at the North Pole and traveled to the South Pole down one side of the earth. Then Jumped on a plane, flew back to the North Pole and journeyed down another side back to the South Pole. But the map doesn't demonstrate that kind of journey, only the 11 legs that make up some 31,400 miles.
If someone could take a look and maybe offer an idea what it implies that would be appreciated.
Great minds discuss Ideas, Average minds discuss Events, Small minds discuss People. E.R.
Anytime I'm in doubt I go outside and give it a little shake.
Liberty Tree.
I think the above was the image you were looking for.
“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
Glass (7th March 2017)
Out here in farm land we try to put down straight lines on a curved surface and we can only go so far and we have to change direction or leave a chunk out.
If the world were flat we would not need surveyors and maps and roads and farm plats would be so easy to lay out.
Minnesota is curved both north and south and east and west.
“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