Darwin about to be proved right

[chesters1]

Like hospital cctv and police body mounted cameras what the bet they 'malfunction' if the captured image disagrees with whats being said .

Hopefully he uses a go-pro those wide angle lenses will put a curve in a photo of your garden lol

 

Mind you theres few trees and no roos and definitely no annoying dolphins to obscure the view where hes taking off from ,i just hope he stick the pointy end of the rocket upwards or everything including him will be flat

I have found some practice launches from this documentary

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Upt7ZTvcriY

Edited November 25, 2017 by chesters1

[rob.imk2]

He says the world is flat it cant be or all the water would fall off the edge

[corydoras]

A flat earth is a reasonable first approximation for pre-technology humans who can’t walk and swim far enough in a lifetime for the error in the model to be a problem. When you can get to the other side of the planet in a day, not so much.

How much technology does one need? Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference using a hole in the ground, a bit of stick and basic trigonometry. He also managed to calculate the axial tilt and made a good stab at the distance to the moon and the sun.

[chesters1]

How much technology does one need? Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference using a hole in the ground, a bit of stick and basic trigonometry. He also managed to calculate the axial tilt and made a good stab at the distance to the moon and the sun.

No roos thats why ,trees perhaps ,frickin dolphins definitely hence the distance not quite right.

[Ken L]

No roos thats why ,trees perhaps ,frickin dolphins definitely hence the distance not quite right.

 

Time for your dried frog pills.

[chesters1]

Swopped them for a bent nail

[Steve Walker]

How much technology does one need? Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference using a hole in the ground, a bit of stick and basic trigonometry. He also managed to calculate the axial tilt and made a good stab at the distance to the moon and the sun.

It's not about the technology you need to calculate it. It's about the level of technology you need for knowing it to be of any practical use to you. Whether a plane is an acceptable approximation for the surface of a sphere depends entirely on the scale of your map.

[corydoras]

It's not about the technology you need to calculate it. It's about the level of technology you need for knowing it to be of any practical use to you. Whether a plane is an acceptable approximation for the surface of a sphere depends entirely on the scale of your map.

I'm more of the "knowledge for the sake of it" type of person. I don't suppose ol' Eratosthenes got much "practical use" from his endeavours.

 

One won't build edifices like this without taking the curvature of the earth into account.

 

https://feel-planet.com/millau-viaduct-france/

[Steve Walker]

Oh, the ancient Greeks were a trading nation. Sailing ships are technology enough to have gone beyond the point where a simple flat map is enough. Note that he didn't discover the globe, he merely estimated its diameter - the nature of it was already known.

[corydoras]

Oh, the ancient Greeks were a trading nation. Sailing ships are technology enough to have gone beyond the point where a simple flat map is enough. Note that he didn't discover the globe, he merely estimated its diameter - the nature of it was already known.

I know he was a bugger, Aristotle.