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
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
