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Originally posted by Cpt. MontyThe Earth is accelerating upwards....because of what? God pulling the strings of every planet and star?
Del's arguments are more valid than yours, if not simply because you are saying that a "giant ice wall" is being kept secret from us. On that note, wouldn't one of the many not so rich, not so well-off, men or women working in the shipping industry maybe have spotted this "giant ice wall" that encircles the flat earth by now? Or has the government killed/paid them off?
Originally posted by Blue_Seven
If you accept that we can never reach the speed of light, you must also then concede that at a certain point, we would reach a terminal velocity and there would be no more gravity on earth. either that, or "gravity" logarithmically decreasing as we near the speed of light.
Originally posted by cruzion When we have earthquakes and test nuclear weapons, we can track the seismic wave as it goes through the Earth. We have P (primary) and S (secondary) waves. P waves will travel through the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the metallic inner core at different speeds. S waves will travel through the mantle, are bent by the liquid outer core, and do not penetrate the iron core. We have mathematical models in place so we can analyze these signals when they occur, monitored from the 1000's of seismic detectors that are in place all a'round' the world. The computation of these events is so accurate, that scientists have mapped the outer edge of the iron core, and it has dimples, just like a golf ball. Also realise that these seismic events are triangulated from hundreds of positions. How does that work if everything is flat? Well, it doesn't does it?
Originally posted by Earthscum
... as youget farther from the "center" of your flat earth, the distance to travel 1 degree becomes greater. My friend lives near Adelaide, S. Australia. She has also lived in the united states. According to her, AND the maps I look at, she only has to drive about half an hour to get to the beach. By your model, she actually has a COUPLE THOUSAND KM's to drive! Explain that one to me. ...
Originally posted by logician magician
Originally posted by Earthscum
reply to post by logician magician
So, explain Lava to me... what is it, where does it come from?
I don't see how this relates to a flat Earth. It comes about the same way as it would on a spherical earth. Heat and rock.
What is it that you don't understand? Maybe you should take a Geology class.
Originally posted by Blue_Seven
reply to post by _Del_
that's true, the speed of light is constant in all frames of reference. but it's also true that a massive object cannot and never will reach the speed of light, even if measured from a photon moving in the opposite direction.
Originally posted by Blue_Seven
oh, and satellites don't "float", they undergo constant centripetal acceleration towards the center of the earth and are in constant free fall.
Originally posted by cruzion
The heat from the Earth comes from both radioactive decay and compression. The more compression applied, the hotter it gets. As you get towards the center of the Earth, the pressure is so great, that it overcomes the actions of temperature, and becomes a solid. Because of the pressure dynamic within the Earth, less dense material is forced outwards. This movement within the Earth is like convection currents of air, and helps move dense material towards center, and lighter material to surface. Where these convection cells meet, you usually find rifts, and divergent zones on the ocean floor, and rift valleys on land are caused by these convections.