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kljesta64 said:
Torillian said:
I haven't circumnavigated the globe all at once but if I put all my travels together I have. Gone from America to Germany, Germany to Australia, Australia to Hawaii, and Hawaii back to America. If the earth weren't a ball one of those trips would've been a lot longer than it was at the time.

australia to hawaii one way flight or with at least one stop ? east to west i guess ?


Each of those flights were one-way as my family was moving at the time and then after 2 years we'd take a flight again.  None of them had any stops except for within the countries mentioned.  



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Besides gravitacional pull being radial, all celestial bodies being rounded, shadow and horizon (the tallest you climb the furthest you see?) being really high you can see even the curvature.

Is this really a question?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Besides there have been several circunavigational flights to see who was faster.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

kitler53 said:
i know there is an overwhelming about of sound evidence to support the world being round but there is a chance that may conflict with something in the bible so i choose to live in a world that is flat and full of dinosaurs.


Yes and everyone knows the world is only 5000 years old because of tracking adam and eve's blood linage.

Those carbon dated dinosaur bones are just stuff put into the earth on creation made to test our faith.

 

btw im kidding.

 

I dont understand why so many americans have such a hard time haveing faith and believeing in science.

In Europe most of us are christians and still acknowledge the sciences.

 

The way I see it, the bible (new testitment) is written by men, nothing in it is gods word, expect for the 10 commandments.

The teaching of jesus are written down (by man), and nothing is contradicted by science or vice versa.



we have sent cameras into space and have taken pictures of it. it is relatively round, like a ball.(not perfect, it has its bulges)



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DD_Bwest said:
we have sent cameras into space and have taken pictures of it. it is relatively round, like a ball.(not perfect, it has its bulges)


so like my pants.



Out of personal experience?

I've flown from Europe to the US, either the thing is round or planes like to make a huge detour over Greenland, plus jet lag and people back home claiming it's already dark etc.
And I've worked on GPS mapping software for 15 years. It works all over the world, so I guess the round ball model is correct! (We did have a slight issue that south of the equator all distances became negative but that was easily fixed)

Actually I was brainwashed from an early age with this


I should put one of these in my kids room as an experiment, see when they catch on :)



SvennoJ said:

Out of personal experience?

I've flown from Europe to the US, either the thing is round or planes like to make a huge detour over Greenland, plus jet lag and people back home claiming it's already dark etc.
And I've worked on GPS mapping software for 15 years. It works all over the world, so I guess the round ball model is correct! (We did have a slight issue that south of the equator all distances became negative but that was easily fixed)

Actually I was brainwashed from an early age with this

from what ive heard gps does not track planes when they are over the oceans...is this true ?

and how planes fly it only makes sense if the earth was flat.. it seems that most of the time they take the longer route meaning the route is bend to account for the curvature of the earth lol



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kljesta64 said:
SvennoJ said:

Out of personal experience?

I've flown from Europe to the US, either the thing is round or planes like to make a huge detour over Greenland, plus jet lag and people back home claiming it's already dark etc.
And I've worked on GPS mapping software for 15 years. It works all over the world, so I guess the round ball model is correct! (We did have a slight issue that south of the equator all distances became negative but that was easily fixed)

Actually I was brainwashed from an early age with this

from what ive heard gps does not track planes when they are over the oceans...is this true ?

and how planes fly it only makes sense if the earth was flat.. it seems that most of the time they take the longer route meaning the route is bend to account for the curvature of the earth lol

GPS doesn't track anything :)

GPS reception works best high above the clouds, water is the bane of good reception. Was kinda fun testing our route planner in a commercial airliner flying over Florida, trying to recalulate routes while doing 900 km/h in a straight line. Good stress test.
It works fine over the ocean too, but due to the lack of roads not much happens :p

and how planes fly it only makes sense if the earth was flat ?



Maybe I misunderstood you misunderstanding me.

It's all a conspiracy anyway, it's obviously faster to fly through the earth, Set Clipping to False and save some fuel.



kljesta64 said:
SvennoJ said:

Out of personal experience?

I've flown from Europe to the US, either the thing is round or planes like to make a huge detour over Greenland, plus jet lag and people back home claiming it's already dark etc.
And I've worked on GPS mapping software for 15 years. It works all over the world, so I guess the round ball model is correct! (We did have a slight issue that south of the equator all distances became negative but that was easily fixed)

Actually I was brainwashed from an early age with this

from what ive heard gps does not track planes when they are over the oceans...is this true ?

and how planes fly it only makes sense if the earth was flat.. it seems that most of the time they take the longer route meaning the route is bend to account for the curvature of the earth lol

And why are yu purpouselly ignoring science and scientific proves/evidence and only answering to the "if you travel around the globe" anwers.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."