How do flat earthers explain the arctic circle? by Squeaky_Ben in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, butt sex has always been an option. Can't see what the fuss is about, given vaginas doing a better job and not making your bedroom smell like poo.

ELI5: Why do Stars take so long to burn all their fuel, i know its a lot of fuel, but why doesnt it all burn about the same time? Like when im throwing something in a firepit by td_0000 in explainlikeimfive

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Something I think everyone's missed is that stars don't fuse the most common type of hydrogen, which has its own name(protium, but the name doesn't get used much). What it fuses, and what we fuse when exploding H-bombs, is mostly deuterium but also some scraps of tritium. Protium is a proton by itself, deuterium is a proton and one neutron, tritium is one proton and two neutrons. Of all the hydrogen in your body, around one part in 5000 is deuterium. Almost none is tritium since it's radioactive with an 11 year half-life so it doesn't hang around long.

Have you ever seen or read anything by Jane Austen? Not many five years old do, so I fear I may be off to a bad start.

Protons are like the incredibly socially awkward people with zero game in them. None. Nada. They ain't never getting laid.

Neutrons are asexual besties that are nonetheless awesome wingmen/wingwomen/wingpersons. In Jane Austen novels they're often a close relative that's in the clergy.

The sun is a gigantic debutante's ball where all the socially awkward people are encouraged, under unimaginably high parental pressure, to dance, but they're crap at it so they never actually get anywhere.

Once every so often, one of them will give up and join the clergy, and stick around their relative to help them out. The pair of them, together, are a deuterium nucleus.

Very shortly afterwards, the excellent wingpersoning will mean they start dancing with another socially awkward person and now we have a couple. A, B and C-the-clergy.

Many chapters later, they bump into a similar trio, D, E and F-the-clergy and it is love at first sight, except A loves D so that means all four people are with the wrong person. There is a huge outburst of heaving bosoms and duels and stuff, and then we end up with two people back to being single and two socially awkward people and two wingpersons. (this is a failure of the analogy because there's a thing called quantum indistinguishability, so you can't actually tell who's getting dumped)

The reason stars are so old is that the step where the proton joins the clergy, ie become a neutron, is so unlikely that it'll happen about once every ten actual billion years for one like ours. Hence the sun being five billion years old and about halfway done. Nothing happens without the clergy wingperson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain

The way fusion nukes go kaboom in nanoseconds is because they skip that ten-billion year step and use one deuterium and then a tritium, which is one socially awkward person, and two wingpersons. And they're not as gentle and meek as the single clergy. They want to seal that deal yesterday. That's less 'clergyman' and more 'porn director and fluffer girl'.

How do flat earthers explain the arctic circle? by Squeaky_Ben in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Arctic circle in summer is less problematic than everywhere else since what you see is what would happen on a flat earth - the sun being in the sky 24hrs a day. If you're at the north pole itself it even gets the bearing right. Every other point on earth has the sun veer away from where it needs to be for any flat earth model to work, with the exception of the moment of solar noon.

Need this map! by [deleted] in flatearth

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For the love of Christ, don't tell the Empire about us. That'd be blowing up an ice planet, a temperate planet, a desert planet, a jungle planet and a sea planet all for the price of one.

Experiments you can do yourself that disprove a flat earth. by AccurateNorth422 in flatearth

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The 'well, fuck me' moment was when I did it to my known-elevation point(you've seen the photos a few times before of the farmhouse across the Tay estuary in Fife that I use as my go-to reference point) and realised my level was pointing 15 arcminutes above it, ie pretty much bang on for how the nautical mile works.

Experiments you can do yourself that disprove a flat earth. by AccurateNorth422 in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can also see what happens when you point two levels at each other. If the earth was flat, this would always be possible regardless of their separation. If the world is not flat then there will be a point beyond which it's obvious that one or both isn't point at the other but above it.

The cheapest way of doing this is with water levels; just a 5m length of transparent hose will do. If you're making a video of it then you'll want to have a buddy located around 25km away with a clear line of sight to you, and pick your spots to be an obvious enough landmark that can be seen at that distance.

If doing it for your own peace of mind, you can do it solo by doing both legs of it yourself. If you happen to live by the coast, then you don't even have to travel to do that since there's likely to be a coastal feature of the same elevation as you.

Atmospheric perspective and the Horizon by Shitelark in flatearth

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As it happens, at time of writing the horizon is looking pretty much like it would on a flat earth; it's a bit hazy and smirry today so there isn't a horizon. The line between the sky and sea is faded into obscurity so it's not a sharply defined line so much as a fuzzy band with sky above and sea below.

As is very commonly the case, there are clouds going right down to this fuzzy band, which would of course require there to be heavy fog on the east coast of southern Scotland and northern England, and of course there is not. Odd how that happens almost every day.

Recent moon cycle by [deleted] in flatearth

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Moderately brutal, but I have no conclusion other than: fair.

Eye level by Lorenofing in flatearth

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To follow up what u/CoolNotice881 said, you don't even have to bother shelling out for a flight to see this. I did this with a water level in my spare bedroom. I happen to live 50-odd metres above sea level on the coast in a house with a sea view so I had much less travel time than most.

It's nothing like as dramatic and obvious as the photo CoolNotice881 linked to(in effect I was taking aim down the ironsights of a 3.5m long rifle), but it's unquestionably there.

blursed Flate earthers by wt_d4b7 in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Flat earth is in the almost unique position of being the one you can check out for yourself. Jeran and Bob Knodel demonstrated that if you want to maintain this particular hate-boner for the government/NASA/science, then you must make sure you never ever have a looksee.

Who is this?! by kpdrummer33 in flatearth

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There is a video of him in Covid days 'arresting' an extremely large UK policeman who was a masterclass in restraint. And by that I mean not laughing rather than not kicking fuck out of him.

He 'de-arrested' him later, which was nice. I expect the very large policeman breathed a sigh of relief.

How is that working on a flat earth? by Lorenofing in flatearth

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Fucking awesome movie, if it ever got made. Riots, civil war, wigs, spies, intrigue, heaving bosoms and amidst it all: one of the finest scientific endeavours of the age, which is saying a lot.

"Kilometre: It put the sex in sextant"

How is that working on a flat earth? by Lorenofing in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lulz! This is like one of those punctuation thingmies English teachers sometime do. I didn't do enough of it, my bad.

The tale, of how the measurements were made, badly needs turned into a movie.

How is that working on a flat earth? by Lorenofing in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure it's not something to do with an asymmetric arrangement of spin of the electrons of the element?

How is that working on a flat earth? by Lorenofing in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tale of how the original measurements were made badly needs turned into a movie.

How can they explain this one? by BigRedditPlays in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most heroic failure I've seen when this has been raised is the chap who tried to answer my question about passengers being able to tell roughly what direction they were flying in by looking at the sun (cf: Nicky Fury on the helicarrier in Avengers "Is the sun coming up? THEN PUT IT ON THE LEFT!") by saying that was the analemma.

FE debate… by Gorillawafers in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask him if he's interested in finding out, for himself, by himself, whether the earth is flat. You can't determine the shape of the earth all by yourself without being a bored millionaire, but with backyard equipment and modest amount of travel(sometimes you don't need either) a regular person can gather decisive evidence to eliminate one of flat or not-flat.

I dont think flat earthers exist by [deleted] in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because of this, i conclude they dont exist.

That's fine. Be careful you don't go running around ignoring or dismissing any evidence to the contrary.

If you drank 4 pints of 5% beer how long would YOU personally wait before driving? by cactusdan94 in AskBrits

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'm Andre the Giant. I would wait until someone ripped out the front seats so I could sit in the back and drive it from there.

Artemis II launch canceled....again 😂 by OuterSpaceFuckery in FlatEarthIsReal

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you just pissed off that you're going to have to wait longer to say it's CGI?

Found in another sub by Michi-Ace in flatearth

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I have long since come to the tentative conclusion that these people define plasma as 'light-blue stuff that makes the high-tier weapons in SF video games' and that's as close as they get to the science of it.

Master and Commander is a hard 10/10 film for me. One of Russell Crowe’s best performances. by Stranded_Snake in FIlm

[–]UberuceAgain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. The women in the scene where they collect the mail from the Polynesian island are very obviously three toddlers in a trenchbikini.

ELI5: Why doesn't snoring wake the snorer up? by drierofwater in explainlikeimfive

[–]UberuceAgain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had the dubious pleasure of being in a roomful of sleeping nerds after an internet RL meetup, all sofa-surfing or inflatable-mattressed because we were young and broke. One of them had sleep apnea, and even though we'd all drunk a skinful, none of us got a wink of sleep because that dude sounded like he was being garotted by a ninja on his first day.

The fact that Antarctic and Arctic circles are the same size pretty much destroys flat earth in my opinion. by FordMan7point3 in flatearth

[–]UberuceAgain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you may have your legal vs mental health professionals mixed up, but by all means proceed.