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parallelman

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  1. There is a bigger problem with the vraious flat Earth models, including that particular geocentric illustration. Depending on what model one looks at the Sun is claimed to be somewhere between 3000-5000 miles (4828-8047 km) above the surface and that means the Sun is a great deal smaller than the 109 Earth diameters as measured by astronomers. The first problem is that no matter where you are on the Earth (globe or flat) the Sun angular size is a little over 0.5o. But on a FE models it would only have that angular size if the sun was directly overhead and moving away the Sun would appear progressivly smaller. This doesn't happen on the globe Earth because the Sunn is so far away that moving from one country to another hardly makes any difference. But there is a bigger problem. The current value for the amount of the Sun's energy on the Earth is about 342 Watts per square meter and as you know, the Sun's energy is important for life on Earth. On a FE it will be just as important. However, the Sun is much smaller on a FE and with an angular size of 0.5o and 5000 miles above the diameter of the Sun would only be about 44 mile (just over 70 km). So how is it that something so small can continuosly over many years, supply us with that much energy?
  2. Well, FE's don't see it that way. Have you looked at the their model? The Sun, well that is, their Sun, doesn't illuminate the whole FE, just portions of it at any given time. That is, the Sun acts like a 'spotlight'. It is a FE ad-hoc solution with no observational or scientific backup.
  3. Perhaps you would prefer Boeings Starliner to make the first trip to Mars. They received more funding than SpaceX Dragon.
  4. Mentioning 'the deivine' I just thought to comment ('light heartedly') that FE Eric Dubay has an explanation for elcipses on a flat Earth. Rahu (from Indian astrology) is the 'body' that eclipses the Sun and Moon by...well it seems to depend on which form of Indian astrology one reads. So it seems that FE's not only use the Christian writings for their belief.
  5. Please note that Flat Earthers deny gravity and they say the force is electro-magnetic. For them, this gets around the problem that mass, under gravity, will form spheroid shapes. (But then gravity is not a force in Einstein's General Relativity. However, since FE's deny there is a universe and believe in some kind of 'firmanent' GR is also denied.)
  6. My condolences. The truck driver is to blame and should be held resposible for those deaths.
  7. Sounds like an opportunity for a 'threesome'...perhaps not, triangles usually end badly too.
  8. I am not religious so I won't comment about the song being 'offensive' but it does sound like a pornographic event without the pictures.
  9. It's all relative. And what's wrong with being a cleaner? This guy seems to be doing okay. 😄
  10. Yes I think I have lost time...replying to to you. Open your eyes and ears. Dave Weiss, one leading FE YOUTUBER, stated categorically that a 24 hour couldn't happen on a Flat Earth. And yes I know about the diverse ideas within the cult but ultimately 'it's a flat Earth'. Jeran Campanella, one of the FE's who went on the Antarctic trip Sun has admitted he was wrong and that there is a 24 hour Sun. He has left the FE cult, received many insults etc. but he now knows that the Earth isn't flat. It is you who needs to question and start thinking with an open mind. You are missing so much wonder living in a FE Closet.
  11. Oh dear, clutching at straws. The Earth is a spheroid and all the FE's are striving and arguing among themselves after the 24 hour Sun debunked flat earth (which FE's said coundn't happen) Get over it.
  12. https://flatearth.ws/polar-circumnav
  13. Agreed. I don't understand why the B.E. no longer supplies this and that and why they stpped PP renewal.
  14. My stamp transfer was at Udornthani and only handed them the old and new passport plus letter. But different IMO's do have different requirements for for other things too, something we have to live with I suppose.
  15. Yes, I used this agent. No problem. New Passport + letter for immigration.
  16. Sunni Williams looks as though the long stay has taken its toll. But then if one thought it was only going to be 8 days....
  17. Quantum Physicists usually stay away from this if for no other reason that it can't be tested in machines like LHC. Consciousness, let alone the subconsious, can't really be defined and at present still remain in the domain of Philosophy etc. However, QFT tells us that everything is the result of interaction between Elementary and Fundamental Fields so any last 'puff' of brain activity could just be Fields settling to their elementary states.
  18. As long as the travel is straight (no curves or gradients) then a steady increase increase in velocity would be okay. Don't forget the 'force of gravity' is downtowards the Earth's center. The slightest curve however would invoke the centripital/centrifugal/'g force'. Say 5000kim/h is about 1389m/s. a circle radius of 30km would still result in about 64g, enough to kill a human. Now that's for an aircraft and how tight a curve it could make but for a vactrain under water I don't know how that would modify the equations. Perhaps an engineer member here could work that out.
  19. It states quite clearly at the top of page 2 of 6 '...The official at the agency/institution you use will then sign and stamp the Life Certificate'.
  20. A lot could happen in the next 7 years. The orbit could be disturbed either causing the asteroid to move away from Earth...or put it on a more direct path towards us. Maybe it will do us a favour and shift some of that mass of debris/junk already around Earth, Ha!
  21. But they are blaming the 'smog'. If the 'smog' was that thick one wouldn't be able to see the signs anyway...especially if driving too fastin bad conditions.
  22. In my bank accounts the interest is listed and then a tax deductuon. So it would seem that the bank does it automatically. Not quite sure if that's the same thing though.
  23. Definitely an issue today in Thailand is debris on the road. Larrge trucks overload and spill onto the road. Certainly in the area where I live, it has gotten worse over the past 10-15 years
  24. Start cleaning my own front door???? What are you on about. We are discussing an incident in Thailand that happened recently, not back in an a era, and place. where & hen things were a lot different.
  25. Allowed to ride a m/b at 13? I would usually offer condolences to the family but perhaps in this case the parents should be prosecuted. Sad loss of a very young life.
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