Yeah, here in California we have the Flat Earth Society**.

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Post #209,371 by Andrew Grygus 6/1/05 12:55:10 PM 6/1/05 12:58:07 PM Reply	Yeah, here in California we have the Flat Earth Society. People will believe what they want to believe and they're totally impervious to logical arguement. Those who listen to them and want to believe will be just as impervious. They'll grab one true statement they see as supporting their position and tell you it invalidates everything you say. Unfortunately for the Flat Earth Society all their records and mailing lists were destroyed some years ago when a mobile home burned down at a Mojave Desert trailer park. They were pleading with the mainstream media to get the word out that Flat Earthers needed to contact them so they could rebuild their lists. Any of you Flat Earthers out there still wonder why you haven't heard from them, drop them a line. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx] Edited by Andrew Grygus June 1, 2005, 12:58:07 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #209,373 by boxley 6/1/05 1:17:17 PM Reply	part I dont understand is if at sealevel the horizon is 11 miles away at the top of a very tall mast the horizon is 16 miles away, how did they overcome that? thanx, bill All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #209,388 by ben_tilly 6/1/05 2:36:31 PM Reply	He believes in a geocentric universe, not a flat Earth I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #209,395 by boxley 6/1/05 3:00:52 PM Reply	was responding to Andrews flat earth stuff All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #209,397 by Andrew Grygus 6/1/05 3:08:32 PM Reply	Yeah, it's called 'topic drift' . . . . . and it's runs in conically concentric epicycles. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #209,418 by ben_tilly 6/1/05 5:41:06 PM 6/1/05 5:42:38 PM Reply	Oops. But note that your estimate was wrong. To a good approximation, the distance that you see varies as the square root of your height. So on top of a mountain that is 1000 times as high as you are, you can see about 31.6 times as far. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother) Edited by ben_tilly June 1, 2005, 05:42:38 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #209,391 by Andrew Grygus 6/1/05 2:50:38 PM Reply	Hey, ask them, not me . . . . . I'm sure they have a "scientific explanation". [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

Geocentrism - (bluke) - (41) - June 1, 2005, 10:29:52 AM EDT

other than moving to the religious forum sure - (boxley) - (1) - June 1, 2005, 10:46:26 AM EDT

I wasn't actually referring to that - (bluke) - June 1, 2005, 10:50:21 AM EDT

It's a bogus argument. - (Another Scott) - June 1, 2005, 10:50:37 AM EDT

Here is one of his responses ... - (bluke) - (28) - June 1, 2005, 11:21:07 AM EDT

You're arguing with an idiot. - (pwhysall) - (2) - June 1, 2005, 11:24:10 AM EDT

I would but ... - (bluke) - (1) - June 1, 2005, 11:27:44 AM EDT

You can't control what other people do. - (Another Scott) - June 1, 2005, 11:56:00 AM EDT

my answer to this specific - (boxley) - (22) - June 1, 2005, 11:36:12 AM EDT

also why do toilets/huricanes/typhoons rotate in different - (boxley) - (21) - June 1, 2005, 11:46:13 AM EDT

Toilets don't depend on hemisphere - (ben_tilly) - (20) - June 1, 2005, 05:40:37 PM EDT

eh, flush your can, static flush your can - (boxley) - (19) - June 1, 2005, 07:22:21 PM EDT

Google for proof if you want - (ben_tilly) - (18) - June 1, 2005, 08:17:20 PM EDT

I just remember when I became a frog - (boxley) - (17) - June 1, 2005, 08:40:32 PM EDT

Somebody was playing games on you - (ben_tilly) - (16) - June 1, 2005, 09:04:52 PM EDT

having dug in the bowels of many a toilet - (boxley) - (15) - June 1, 2005, 09:50:37 PM EDT

It probably has more to do with the toilet design. - (Another Scott) - (14) - June 1, 2005, 09:58:41 PM EDT

again let static and meerkat pull the top off their tank - (boxley) - (13) - June 1, 2005, 10:17:16 PM EDT

Sure. But ye canna change the laws of physics! - (Another Scott) - June 1, 2005, 10:25:30 PM EDT

Perhaps it isn't obvious to you... - (ben_tilly) - (10) - June 1, 2005, 11:36:50 PM EDT

You actually spent time researching this? - (bionerd) - (3) - June 2, 2005, 09:29:55 AM EDT

It's not just a toilet, it's a belief system. - (admin) - (2) - June 2, 2005, 11:01:17 AM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - June 2, 2005, 11:33:33 AM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (static) - June 2, 2005, 08:26:43 PM EDT

okay, we have 10 toilets in this building I will flush them - (boxley) - (5) - June 2, 2005, 09:55:10 AM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk) - June 2, 2005, 10:31:49 AM EDT

Invalid - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 2, 2005, 11:40:54 AM EDT

Also invalid because ... - (drewk) - June 2, 2005, 11:43:43 AM EDT

We have a counter-clockwise one here. - (admin) - (1) - June 2, 2005, 02:47:59 PM EDT

good enough I retract my statement about earth rotation - (boxley) - June 2, 2005, 03:00:49 PM EDT

Actually, we can't perform that experiment. - (static) - June 2, 2005, 12:37:47 AM EDT

He falls apart at the third line - (JayMehaffey) - June 1, 2005, 12:46:02 PM EDT

He's an idiot - (ben_tilly) - June 1, 2005, 05:37:02 PM EDT

Am I in the Dark Ages or something? - (warmachine) - (1) - June 1, 2005, 12:07:05 PM EDT

You've jumbled the story - (ben_tilly) - June 1, 2005, 02:48:36 PM EDT

Yeah, here in California we have the Flat Earth Society**. - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - June 1, 2005, 12:58:07 PM EDT

part I dont understand is if at sealevel the horizon - (boxley) - (5) - June 1, 2005, 01:17:17 PM EDT

He believes in a geocentric universe, not a flat Earth -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - June 1, 2005, 02:36:31 PM EDT

was responding to Andrews flat earth stuff -NT - (boxley) - (2) - June 1, 2005, 03:00:52 PM EDT

Yeah, it's called 'topic drift' . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 1, 2005, 03:08:32 PM EDT

Oops. - (ben_tilly) - June 1, 2005, 05:42:38 PM EDT

Hey, ask them, not me . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 1, 2005, 02:50:38 PM EDT

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