Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?)
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Brockville police are looking for the man and say they expect to charge him with mischief.
As long as they can charge the woman with stupidity...
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@pydsigner TRWTF is thinking that an oblate spheroid is not round, eh?
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@boomzilla I honestly didn't catch that, but good point. I still enjoyed the snark of the article though.
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@boomzilla it's not round, if by that you mean every possible non-tangential planar intersection of the shape is a circle; only a sphere satisfies that requirement. For an oblate spheroid, for planes which non-tangentially intersect the shape, only those planes which are perpendicular to its axis of rotation will form circular intersections; all other planes will form oval intersections.
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@anotherusername said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
it's not round, if by that you mean every possible non-tangential planar intersection of the shape is a circle.
I can't imagine that I would mean something like that.
round
adjective
1.shaped like or approximately like a circle or cylinder.
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@boomzilla the article did say "perfectly round"...
And we're already disregarding irregular surface features, like mountains, since if we consider those it's not an oblate spheroid either.
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@anotherusername said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@boomzilla the article did say "perfectly round"...
And we're already disregarding irregular surface features, like mountains, since if we consider those it's not an oblate spheroid either.
It was the reporter who brought up that silliness. The description of the incident was just "flat vs round."
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We find an instance of an actual, real life literal flamewar and you nerds start discussing oblate spheroids?
I am disappoint.
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@Gurth no, you're wrong, clearly the earth is the inside surface of a toroidal structure created by aliens to house us in ignorance while they experiment on us!
Wake up to the truth sheeple! the truth is out there and is stranger than it seems!~
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"A family argument over whether the Earth is flat or round became so heated that one of the participants threw a propane cylinder onto a campfire, prompting an intervention by firefighters."
yes. precisely the level of retardedness I'd expect from people who would argue earth being flat.
Edit:
"Man angered by suggestion Earth is flat threw propane tank into fire"oh... well, yeah, it can be infuriatingly jarring to be faced with human idiocy, and tempting to want to reduce the amount of idiocy in population, but... this is one of the less ideal ways.
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@accalia said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
Wake up to the truth sheeple!
I did, once. We both agreed we were too drunk to know what we're doing at the time and don't mention it any more...
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@Luhmann ... ...
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@Luhmann Yes, I got the joke, it's just so cringeworthy it makes me both facepalm and laugh at the same time.
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@sh_code said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
yes. precisely the level of retardedness I'd expect from people who would argue earth being flat.
well, it's flat, but it's mass create a distortion in time-space or something
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The "Earth" as we know it is an abstract idea reified by our imaginations. In a sense it is flat as we all have an "edge" in our understanding of its structure. In objective reality, though, it's more of an n dimensional structure on the underlying substrate of being
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@sh_code said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
oh... well, yeah, it can be infuriatingly jarring to be faced with human idiocy, and tempting to want to reduce the amount of idiocy in population, but... this is one of the less ideal ways.
Yeah.Plain manslaughter works best in such cases. Jury would nullify in a heartbeat given the circumstances.
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@dcon I didn't know mischief was a legal term. What's next, being charged with three counts of shenanigans? The SEC investigating companies for possible acts of monkey business?
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@anonymous234 The SEC investigating companies for possible acts of monkey business?
That would make them the largest employer on the earth. And then who investigates the investigators?
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@anonymous234 said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
The SEC investigating
companieszoos for possible acts of monkey business?
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@anonymous234 said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@dcon I didn't know mischief was a legal term. What's next, being charged with three counts of shenanigans? The SEC investigating companies for possible acts of monkey business?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief says it is, and it usually refers to what English law would call criminal damage or vandalism.
Words are tricky. In British English, a "miscreant" would normally be thought of as having committed some sort of minor property damage (kicked over milk bottles, minor vandalism, that sort of thing).
In Indian English (i.e. the version of English that is used in India), a "miscreant" refers to someone who has committed slightly more serious offences, like multiple murders and rapes.
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@boomzilla said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@pydsigner TRWTF is thinking that an oblate spheroid is not round, eh?
TIL that @boomzilla is Canadian
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@sh_code said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
oh... well, yeah, it can be infuriatingly jarring to be faced with human idiocy, and tempting to want to reduce the amount of idiocy in population, but... this is one of the less ideal ways.
I suspect copious quantities of alcohol were also involved.
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@DoctorJones said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@boomzilla said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@pydsigner TRWTF is thinking that an oblate spheroid is not round, eh?
TIL that @boomzilla is Canadian
No, but the story was aboot some Canucks you hoser.
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@boomzilla That was my suspicion as well.
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@Jaloopa said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
The "Earth" as we know it is an abstract idea reified by our imaginations. In a sense it is flat as we all have an "edge" in our understanding of its structure. In objective reality, though, it's more of an n dimensional structure on the underlying substrate of being
+1 for use of "reified".
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@Gurth The most disturbing thing about that map is that it was produced in1893. 1893.
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@pydsigner it is worrying that it took them that long to work it out
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@Luhmann said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@Onyx said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
don't mention it any more
did he/she mééégree?
I didn't. Can anybody explain it to me? @Luhmann? @Onyx? @blakeyrat?
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@kt_
What does the sheep say?
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@Luhmann said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@kt_
What does the sheep say?In English, not
mééé
but “baa” or “meh”.
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Clearly the world is more like this:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/bms0tvyrebd0ka0tewlu.jpg
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@pydsigner I would love to see the book that the map’s maker wrote. Given that it’s a 19th century work, I have some doubts I’d be able to get through it, but:
It Knocks the Globe Theory Clean Out. It will Teach You How to Foretell Eclipses. It is Worth Its Weight in Gold.
so it must be good … I’m especially interested in how he’ll justify ships sailing at southern latitudes take the same length of time to cross the world as they do at northern latitudes.
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@Gurth And I want to know how to foretell eclipses! I'd pay a book's worth in gold for that.... oh wait, [parts of] humanity have known how to predict eclipses for thousands of years. Nvm.
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@boomzilla said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
oblate spheroid
You people are just educated stupid.
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@flabdablet I haven't actually listened to these people before. Even their basic terminology is crazy.
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@Gurth said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
I’m especially interested in how he’ll justify ships sailing at southern latitudes take the same length of time to cross the world as they do at northern latitudes.
Oh, that's quite easy. As you get closer to the North Pole, the water gets stickier so ships can't go as fast.
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@Gurth
Yeah but that would have kinda killed the joke
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@Arantor
To the lard mines!
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@Arantor said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
Clearly the world is more like this:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/bms0tvyrebd0ka0tewlu.jpg
Sorry, but it's turtles all the way down.
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@error said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@Arantor said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
Clearly the world is more like this:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/bms0tvyrebd0ka0tewlu.jpg
Sorry, but it's turtles all the way down.
It's a turtle. It doesn't need to stand on anything. It swims. As illustrated.
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@Luhmann said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@Arantor
To the lard mines!You're banging a fat chick?
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@error
If I ever find the entrance in this meat mountain.
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@pydsigner said in Round vs. Flat (vs. Oblate Spheroid?):
@Gurth And I want to know how to foretell eclipses!
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@error If all the water's falling off the edge, where does new water come from? Is there a big gutter not shown in that picture with a big pipe bringing it back up? (Ringworld explicitly did that with soil erosion.)