part I dont understand is if at sealevel the horizon

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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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