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dang. and I thought I had some strange ideas.
"Before the Earth was enspherized, people could escape television broadcast beams by direct linear travel. This is no longer the case, as television broadcast transmissions encircle the finite globe. The goal was not spherization, but limitation. The most obvious solution, to cut off the remainder of the planet beyond a small fixed inner area, giving a flat, bounded earth with the traditional falling-off-the-edge-of-the-world, would have been too obvious, and would have left too much evidence of the deed.
Instead they cut out that same fixed inner area, then wrapped it up into a sphere, and destroyed historical evidence of the flat unbounded earth.
The big question of course is how they managed to spherize the Earth. There is some speculation that they somehow managed to tinker with some of the cosmological constants that define our particular universe in such a way as to redefine the world's stable state from flat to spherical. There has been much speculation regarding the destabalizing of the value of PI: on the surface of the earth, treated as a 2d positively curved non-euclidean plane, the value of PI is a function of the size of your circle, rather than a constant. (For example: a very small circle on the surface of the Earth has a value of PI approaching the traditional euclidean-space value, but if you start at the North pole, and enlarge your circle untill it is equivalent to the equator, you can easily see that the value of PI for that circle is exactly 2.) It is not currently understood how one would degenerate the value of PI so as to destabalize a flat plane, but it is a field of intense research."
A lot of conspiracy and some vague wannabe mathematics that doesn't apply or prove a thing. I might spend too much time on Bladeforums but some people REALLY have to much time on their hands!
"Before the Earth was enspherized, people could escape television broadcast beams by direct linear travel. This is no longer the case, as television broadcast transmissions encircle the finite globe. The goal was not spherization, but limitation. The most obvious solution, to cut off the remainder of the planet beyond a small fixed inner area, giving a flat, bounded earth with the traditional falling-off-the-edge-of-the-world, would have been too obvious, and would have left too much evidence of the deed.
Instead they cut out that same fixed inner area, then wrapped it up into a sphere, and destroyed historical evidence of the flat unbounded earth.
The big question of course is how they managed to spherize the Earth. There is some speculation that they somehow managed to tinker with some of the cosmological constants that define our particular universe in such a way as to redefine the world's stable state from flat to spherical. There has been much speculation regarding the destabalizing of the value of PI: on the surface of the earth, treated as a 2d positively curved non-euclidean plane, the value of PI is a function of the size of your circle, rather than a constant. (For example: a very small circle on the surface of the Earth has a value of PI approaching the traditional euclidean-space value, but if you start at the North pole, and enlarge your circle untill it is equivalent to the equator, you can easily see that the value of PI for that circle is exactly 2.) It is not currently understood how one would degenerate the value of PI so as to destabalize a flat plane, but it is a field of intense research."
A lot of conspiracy and some vague wannabe mathematics that doesn't apply or prove a thing. I might spend too much time on Bladeforums but some people REALLY have to much time on their hands!
Esav Benyamin
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I don't FEEL FAT. Do you FEEL FAT?
Do you believe these guys are serious? Television should only be this funny!
Fight the eeeeeevillllll
Esav Benyamin
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What were you drinking when you found this?
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Esav Benyamin said:What were you drinking when you found this?
Well Esav, and Mike, I wasn't drunk nor had I become suddenly mad or suchlike, I have this utility called Stumble which is a button in my Firefox. You can program it for the sorts of things you like to see then when you click on it you get a random website that probably fits the criteria you set. I think that one came under the criterion of "weird stuff"!
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The Flat Earth Society is a Discordian joke, all the funnier because they've been taken seriously. Fnord.
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I think most people know it's a joke but some years ago there was this old guy who ran a flat earth society. Apparently he lived out on the edge of a desert somewhere in America and he was quite serious. I'm not 100% certain of the truth of this but I read about it somewhere some time ago.SilverFoxKnows said: