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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #495 on: August 05, 2017, 07:28:55 PM »

I don't know what you're referring to about the accelerometer.

It is you who brought up the accelerometer and not me.

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #496 on: August 05, 2017, 08:01:21 PM »
Phones use an accelerometer to run the level app. Because an accelerometer is a weight balanced on springs, it will always point down towards the earth when using the level. I don't understand how this can be taken as evidence for a flat earth. It can't be really. Won't a plumb line always point straight down? Doesn't a dropped object always fall down? It's the same thing. I'm getting confused by the ludicrosity of this experiment.
I don't think I need to tell you that calibrating a level on a level floor will yield the same result on any level floor, but I will. Calibrating a level on a level floor will yield the same result on any level floor, anywhere and everywhere. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Yes, a plumb line will always point straight down, but not the accelermeter as you have falsely asserted.  The accelermeter can point in any direction and show level (you should watch the pre-flight experiments).  If you think otherwise, then you are clearly delusional and don't understand the reason for setting a reference point for level during calibration.  The phone was off during the entire experiment, thus gravity and the accelerometer had no effect on the bubble level app during the experiment.  Ireland being on the other side of the so-called globe could never show level in regards to the same reference point for level obtained during calibration in the u.s.a.  However, Ireland does show level using the same reference point obtained in the u.s.a, thus the earth is flat!

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #497 on: August 05, 2017, 09:03:52 PM »
I haven't falsely asserted anything, I know an accelerometer can show a force in any direction. And when an accelerometer is motionless the dominant force acting on it is gravity. That's why the guy didn't put it on his head and do the Macarena when he calibrated it. He wanted it to be calibrated to the level of the floor, as by gravity.

The calibration has nothing to do with location, it only allows you, the user, to set it to show level at what you believe is level. A normal bubble level doesn't need to be calibrated, and you can see what it shows in the video, two level floors. So congrats to the engineers and contractors that built the airports.

Likewise it doesn't matter if the phone was turned off or on, the calibration would remain the same. I don't know where you're coming up with these arguments but you're misunderstanding everything. How do you not see what you're saying as being wrong? I just don't understand.  :-\

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #498 on: August 05, 2017, 09:23:36 PM »
I haven't falsely asserted anything, I know an accelerometer can show a force in any direction. And when an accelerometer is motionless the dominant force acting on it is gravity. That's why the guy didn't put it on his head and do the Macarena when he calibrated it. He wanted it to be calibrated to the level of the floor, as by gravity.

The calibration has nothing to do with location, it only allows you, the user, to set it to show level at what you believe is level. A normal bubble level doesn't need to be calibrated, and you can see what it shows in the video, two level floors. So congrats to the engineers and contractors that built the airports.

Likewise it doesn't matter if the phone was turned off or on, the calibration would remain the same. I don't know where you're coming up with these arguments but you're misunderstanding everything. How do you not see what you're saying as being wrong? I just don't understand.  :-\

The accelerometer can only detect acceleration and not gravity itself.  The accelerometer resting on the floor during calibration isn't undergoing acceleration, thus the accelerometer isn't calibrated on a level floor by gravity as you have once again falsely asserted.  Gravity is nothing more than density and buoyancy.  Anything heavier than air will fall through it and anything lighter than air will rise.

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #499 on: August 05, 2017, 09:59:50 PM »
antijon,

Let me ask you this question.  Do you think Ireland has the same reference point for level relative to a reference point for level in the u.s.a on a globe model?  I can easily provide an illustration showing how a person standing at one location on a globe doesn't have the same reference point for level, up, down, left, and right relative to a person who is on the other side of the fake globe.

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #500 on: August 05, 2017, 10:29:09 PM »
antijon,

Let me ask you this question.  Do you think Ireland has the same reference point for level relative to a reference point for level in the u.s.a on a globe model?  I can easily provide an illustration showing how a person standing at one location on a globe doesn't have the same reference point for level, up, down, left, and right relative to a person who is on the other side of the fake globe.

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The author of confusion baal (ball) destroyed by it's own theory of relativity.  ROFLMAO!!!  On the flat earth, EVERYONE has the same reference point for what is level, up, down, etc., thus the theory of relativity is literally total B.S from baal (ball).

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #501 on: August 06, 2017, 08:51:03 AM »
LOL

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #502 on: August 06, 2017, 09:25:34 AM »
I haven't falsely asserted anything, I know an accelerometer can show a force in any direction. And when an accelerometer is motionless the dominant force acting on it is gravity. That's why the guy didn't put it on his head and do the Macarena when he calibrated it. He wanted it to be calibrated to the level of the floor, as by gravity.

The calibration has nothing to do with location, it only allows you, the user, to set it to show level at what you believe is level. A normal bubble level doesn't need to be calibrated, and you can see what it shows in the video, two level floors. So congrats to the engineers and contractors that built the airports.

Likewise it doesn't matter if the phone was turned off or on, the calibration would remain the same. I don't know where you're coming up with these arguments but you're misunderstanding everything. How do you not see what you're saying as being wrong? I just don't understand.  :-\


Flat Earth pseudoscience is a symptoms of anti-intellectualism
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In the 1990s and early 2000s, a lot of the online presence of Flat Earth societies on various websites and forums was probably based on satire. With the advent of YouTube and the growing conspiracy movements, more and more people have seriously claimed that the earth is flat. Before, many cranks were often socially isolated and rarely encountered thousands of other people who shared their viewpoints.

With the Internet, it has become possible to connect with people who share your own worldview and experience enormous reinforcement. It is also very easy to become ideologically isolated online with search engines silently adapting to your search behavior and showing you material that the search engine algorithm has predicted that you want to see. This is ultimately done to monetize the preferences of individuals, but has the disturbing side effect of reducing the amount of divergent information that a person will see. It is like a form of technological confirmation bias. On social media, you also get to decide who you follow and who to block, further strengthening ideological isolation. Technological and social filter bubbles skew their world.

Ultimately, the Flat Earth movement is a symptom of anti-intellectualism. It is an extreme distrust of modernity and science on the base of a conspiracy theory that does not even remotely make sense even by the low standards of conspiracy theories. For some reason, all the governments of 200+ countries of the world have decided to fool people into thinking that the Earth is really shaped like a sphere. On the Flat Earth model, Antarctica is at the ends of the flat disc, and protected by the military. Why all the governments of the world are conspiring together and why they are trying to hide the supposed fact that the Earth is flat is exceptionally difficult for Flat Earth activists to understand.

Debunking Flat Earth conspiracy theories is thus one aspect of combating anti-intellectualism.

Good way to illustrate how people can fall for misinformation
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Many people have a hard time to imagine how “people could be that dumb” to believe that the Earth is flat. It is often challenging to fathom how people can come to believe the most radically absurd claims about the world that we know are false. However, it is a simplification to blame it all on personal factors like a supposed lack of intelligence. This is because it not only underestimates situational factors, but also fails to explain why many, very intelligent people also accept pseudoscience and quackery.

Flat Earth pseudoscience, due to its patently absurd content, offers a stark reality of the power of misinformation. Misinformation can contribute to people starting to buy into claim that are so strongly incompatible with everything we know about basic physics. The realization that there are people who think the Earth is flat can in many ways be sobering and make it easier to understand how and why people can be ignorant and misinformed enough to be against vaccines or reject climate science.

Although Flat Earth conspiracy theories do not have anywhere near the level of danger that the anti-vaccine and climate denial have, it stands out because we have known that the Earth is not flat since the ancient Greeks like Aristotle and Eratosthenes. There is very little, if any, opposition among major political ideologies to labelling Flat Earth beliefs as pseudoscience, so it is in some ways a set of claims that almost everyone, except Flat Earth believers, can agree on is pseudoscience. It also opens up for conversations like “well if there are people who are misinformed enough to think the Earth is flat, maybe they could be misinformed on other issues as well?”


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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #503 on: August 06, 2017, 03:47:19 PM »
The accelerometer can only detect acceleration and not gravity itself.  The accelerometer resting on the floor during calibration isn't undergoing acceleration, thus the accelerometer isn't calibrated on a level floor by gravity as you have once again falsely asserted.  Gravity is nothing more than density and buoyancy.  Anything heavier than air will fall through it and anything lighter than air will rise.

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I've heard this argument before, about density and acceleration. If you don't believe that gravity exists then I can't argue with that, there's too much evidence for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment Refer to the cavendish experiment to see that there is a force acting on objects. This is gravity.

It's good to be skeptical, skepticism is the basis of science. But denying evidence simply to support your dogma is not scientific.

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #504 on: August 06, 2017, 04:35:59 PM »
. But denying evidence simply to support your dogma is not scientific.

denying evidence simply to support  dogma is pseudoscience

grave can say earth is flat without any proof
I can say earth is not flat without any proof
( you can't argue with flatearthers )
by many evidences earth is not flat , grave do your own search !

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« Reply #505 on: August 06, 2017, 05:23:51 PM »
I've heard this argument before, about density and acceleration. If you don't believe that gravity exists then I can't argue with that, there's too much evidence for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment Refer to the cavendish experiment to see that there is a force acting on objects. This is gravity.

It's good to be skeptical, skepticism is the basis of science. But denying evidence simply to support your dogma is not scientific.

It's already been shown and proven the accelerometer isn't calibrated on a level floor by acceleration or gravity as you have falsely asserted.  Until you can show otherwise, you have no real argument. Your fake gravity is nothing more than a red herring.  According to your logic, the accelerometer would always act as a plumb line and the bubble level app could never go off-center because of your fake gravity.  This isn't what we see in the real world.  Even if your fake gravity existed, you can't prove or show how the accelerometer is calibrated by gravity resting on a level floor.  There are a lot of things that exist in the real world, but this doesn't mean those things are responsible for calibrating the accelerometer resting on a level floor simply on the basis that they exist, thus your cavendish experiment is also another red herring.  You're worshiping a fake imaginary ball (baal). 

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #506 on: August 06, 2017, 07:18:36 PM »
antijon,

Let me ask you this question.  Do you think Ireland has the same reference point for level relative to a reference point for level in the u.s.a on a globe model?

Gravock

This simple question has been conveniently ignored by antijon!

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #507 on: August 06, 2017, 09:33:05 PM »
Neil DeGrasse Tyson in a homeless tweaker's shelter shirt!

...and the ballers are going to cry this is a fake!

ROFLMAO!!!

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« Reply #508 on: August 07, 2017, 01:02:53 AM »
This simple question has been conveniently ignored by antijon!

Gravock

I didn't ignore you, I already answered that previously. There is no reference point. Everything, everywhere on the earth, will always be attracted to the earth and the direction will always point towards the center of the earth. In other words, things always fall down.

About Cavendish, and many other reasons to believe in gravity, I'm going to refer back to TK - you will always say it's fake. For anything else, like Tagor said - do your own search.

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Re: Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?
« Reply #509 on: August 07, 2017, 03:20:26 AM »
I didn't ignore you, I already answered that previously. There is no reference point. Everything, everywhere on the earth, will always be attracted to the earth and the direction will always point towards the center of the earth. In other words, things always fall down.


Please explain how the bubble level app could ever go off-center if the accelerometer is always pointing towards the center of the earth due to gravity as you falsely assert.  You can't, because the bubble level app does go off-center relative to it's reference point for level, thus your fake gravity is once again a red herring.  You can't compare an accelerometer to a plumb line, lol.

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