Request for 'Over the Horizon' Photos

Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by rwatson, Nov 19, 2012.

  1. latestarter
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    I have difficulty deciding when you are serious or joking, the odd :rolleyes: or ;) might help.
     
  2. gonzo
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    That would be too easy for you.
     
  3. erik818
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    Where do you get if you dig forever downwards on a flat earth?
     
  4. michael pierzga
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    Australia. Down under
     
  5. Petros
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    we can see picture of the moon and other planets that are round like a ball, and guess what? we also have pictures of the earth from space, and it too is round as a ball. Even pictures from very high altitude aircraft show the curve of the earth.

    If you fly (or sail for that matter) in a straight line in any direction on the earth you end up back where you started from after about 24,000 miles.

    What other proof do you need?
     
  6. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Ahhhhh but you successfully sailed in a very big arc and missed falling off the edge - lucky you :D
     
  7. gonzo
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    The moon and planets are discs. Straight lines don't exist except as a mathematical abstraction.
     
  8. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Isn't it nice to use science and facts to confabble the masses like how many know this fact - see attached pdf

    - - All I ask is that the entire document is read and can be verified by referring to the letters on public domain in libraries and universities and of course the FED'd own historical archive before criticising the content...
     

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  9. Frosty

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    I like the theory that when formed the moon was only 10,000 miles up and the tides where 1000 feet swirling accros the planet twice daily.

    But that was a long time ago when the world was made but god was fine tuning it in,-- as you do on a new build.
     
  10. gonzo
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    We are using the gravity, that is why there is less pull now.
     
  11. erik818
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    Wrong gonzo. When I stand on a scale my weight is higher now than it was 20 years ago. Because my mass hasn't increased, gravity must have increased over time, not decreased.
     
  12. gonzo
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    That is because gravity has accumulated in your gut, that can be proven by science. However, you used several kilos of gravity, so there is less left to attract the rest of the objects in Earth.
     
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    So overpopulation should be the course half this country lays below sea level? Aint no local high gravity field far as I know. No, looks very flat around here! Its the low lands, in french named "payes bas" if i'm not mistaken. Gives some funny pics but sorry, no proof for a so called ""round world" :p
     
  14. rwatson
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    omigod - so they were right ???? :p

    What I need is a lighthouse obscured by the horizon, but the beam reflected off the low cloud above it.

    Its all academic now, I have lost interest in their website.

    I figured out the business model they use - they get people to register to argue the silly point, and then sell their email address.

    Quite good really, lucky I used a temporary email address to register.

    I think I might start one myself - "The moon is actually made of green cheese ", that might work
     

  15. tom kane
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    I would like to know where you get some of your information from..gonzo it does not fit with what I read. None of us really know anything just pick info here and there.

    Except of course our own experiences.Its so easy to Google for info and get a lot of old info just about impossible to keep up to date as average people can still be well behind developing science experimental proof.Take for instance, there is no such force as gravity.
     
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