Random Thought Thread

Thanks!

I'm not deranged though. I dont need your pity either.

HOW CAN IT BE PROVEN? There HAS to be an experiment that can PROVE we are spinning faster than the speed of sound at the equator.

There HAS to be an experiment that PROVES the earth is a sphere.

I haven't been able to find em.

WE SEE TOO FAR.

I enjoy thought experiments, but I dont think you understand what I'm putting out there. I dont think that there is an edge that you or water will fall off of if you go to far. Maybe it's like a lake? where theres a shoreline surrounding everything? I dont think space is what NASA tells us it is.

How can we have air pressure without a container?

Oh well. I can agree to disagree.

I like Nathan back. I'll pass a note during gym to make sure he knows it.

❤😃🤷‍♂️🧯🔥✌🍻
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
My brother is sitting here next to me listening to me dictate to my phone. He says he thinks the difference is that integrals are continuous whereas derivatives are discreet. No wait, I think I got that backwards....
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As a start, just think of a derivative as a rate of change, and an integral as summing up a function over many tiny increments.
 
I knew that a integral was the area under a curve. Before Newton they used to make little triangles and estimated through simple triangular area calculation. He invented calculus not for the sake of inventing calculus but because he needed to be able to calculate orbits and before calculus there was not a good way to describe those curves.

Jonathan says that the derivative is simply the slope at a particular point on that curve. Duh.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
Thanks!

I'm not deranged though. I dont need your pity either.

HOW CAN IT BE PROVEN? There HAS to be an experiment that can PROVE we are spinning faster than the speed of sound at the equator.

There HAS to be an experiment that PROVES the earth is a sphere.

I haven't been able to find em.

WE SEE TOO FAR.

I enjoy thought experiments, but I dont think you understand what I'm putting out there. I dont think that there is an edge that you or water will fall off of if you go to far. Maybe it's like a lake? where theres a shoreline surrounding everything? I dont think space is what NASA tells us it is.

How can we have air pressure without a container?

Oh well. I can agree to disagree.

I like Nathan back. I'll pass a note during gym to make sure he knows it.

❤😃🤷‍♂️🧯🔥✌🍻
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The density and pressure of the atmosphere is a simple function of elevation as expected based on gravity. I can suggest a nice book with a short chapter on the physics of the atmosphere.
 
Richard338 said:
The density and pressure of the atmosphere is a simple function of elevation as expected based on gravity. I can suggest a nice book with a short chapter on the physics of the atmosphere.
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can you explain it? you cant have air pressure in a vacuum.

your tiny lungs defeat gravity each time you suck liquid through a straw you know......
 
I chose gravity as the basis of my argument because it really explains everything once you think it through

Timmy there are simple explanations for all of your questions that don't require conspiracy theories to understand. Actually, gravity is the answer to lot of it. It's basic high school level physics.

If you are in a supersonic aircraft, you can still talk to the person sitting in front of you because the air inside of the aircraft is stationary relative to you despite its velocity through the surrounding atmosphere. I don't know the circumferential velocity of the Earth at the equator, but it would not surprise me if it was supersonic. Relative to an observer outside of Earth's atmosphere. But obviously the earth is applying drag to its surrounding atmosphere and the relative velocity of the Earth compared to the air at the surface of the Earth at the equator is going to be relatively stationary. That doesn't seem weird to me.


A relatively simple experiment that would prove the Earth is a sphere would simply be to stand off at a distance and view it. This has been done many times. I'm sorry that is not within your or my economic means to duplicate this basic experiment ourselves. But you cannot discount the outcomes of basic observations just because you personally aren't capable of making that observation.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
can you explain it? you cant have air pressure in a vacuum.

your tiny lungs defeat gravity each time you suck liquid through a straw you know......
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Okay, what about water pressure Timmy. Have you ever noticed that there's higher water pressure at the bottom of the pool than there is at the top of the pool. Air, is also a fluid, it's the same way. It's the weight of the air above it. Due to... Gravity...
 
Lowes completely sucks and I will never order anything from them again. Period.

Today, they call me, after I called to confirm delivery of an (unopened box) range scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. The gal tells me that the only ones they have are the one I returned last Friday and a floor model.

Now they say they won't have any until the end of the month, or sometime in September. I told them to cancel the order and refund. (I also told her that we'd never patronize Lowes again, for what it's worth).

Now, Home Depot, Best Buy and all the other shops are out of the model until Sept as well...so we're completely screwed as we only have the microwave and no range top and no oven. Guess we'll be picking up takeout and / or eating out a lot for a while.

I'm not a happy camper.
 
Sometimes, when some person who is not mentally deficient, has been presented the facts and the proofs and the basic means of understanding a concept yet they continue to spin wildly around conspiracy theories that are way more complicated and do not hold up to basic reasoning, I begin to wonder if some people are willfully ignorant and it's all some part of a game. It's like showing a person who is lost a map, and them refusing to except the simple information presented to them. It's maddening.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Okay, what about water pressure Timmy. Have you ever noticed that there's higher water pressure at the bottom of the pool than there is at the top of the pool. Air, is also a fluid, it's the same way. It's the weight of the air above it. Due to... Gravity...
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that doesnt explain why we have air pressure without a container.

space is supposed to be an infinite vacuum right? Why can my lungs pull water and air up away from gravity through a straw, but we have air pressure?

Is gravity an actual law of science or widely accepted theory?

Encyclopedia brittanica says ''Newtonian THEORY of gravity''

And why, when I ride my gravitron, do I stick to the walls and not to the floor?

Ah. I dont know. I just know that I Love Jesus.
✌

 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
that doesnt explain why we have air pressure without a container.

space is supposed to be an infinite vacuum right? Why can my lungs pull water and air up away from gravity through a straw, but we have air pressure?

Is gravity an actual law of science or widely accepted theory?

Encyclopedia brittanica says ''Newtonian THEORY of gravity''

And why, when I ride my gravitron, do I stick to the walls and not to the floor?

Ah. I dont know. I just know that I Love Jesus.
✌

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This entire post is just awesome
 
Ruari said:
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You can change the direction the water swirls down in your sink by rotating the water in either direction. Coriolis doesn't really affect such small bodies of water.
More influenced by subtleties such as direction the water was introduced from or structure shape of the basin.
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Haven't tried it, have you? I have as a kid, on both continents/hemispheres (numerous relatives in Oz).

If the basin is smaller or round(ish), then yes, you can absolutely dictate the direction the water swirls down the drain.

In a standard oblong bathtub, the results were interesting:

I'd swirl the water in a full bathtub furiously, just before pulling the plug to drain it, and the water WOULD start draining while swirling in the direction I'd chosen, but the oblong shape doesn't maintain the rotation of the water in the full bathtub for very long.

Midway through the bathtub draining, the swirling whirlpool would often change directions if I'd started the swirl in the opposite direction. It was fascinating, because the sound of it changed too.

When it's swirling in a whirlpool, the 'funnel' that results, seems to allow airflow, and the water drains with a steady whoosh, but when it changed swirl directions, that funnel would collapse, the tub would 'blub', and go 'glug, glug, glug', before it reestablished the swirling in the native direction, and began draining smoothly again.

If I initiated the swirl/whirlpool in the correct direction for the respective hemisphere, the funnel never collapsed (and I could put small floating toys in the tub, and watch them get sucked down by the maelstrom, which is why I did the swirling in the first place; to create a more pronounced whirlpool funnel when draining the tub, because the funnel/whirlpool fascinated me).
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I took calculus over the summer one year at University. I actually made an A. But right now I couldn't tell you the difference between an integral and a derivative
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An integral dagger is the one that you got directly from CPK.
A derivative dagger is the one you got from another CoCK member after much persuasion and cost a lot more 😁
I think I deserve an F on this subject.
 
I just fed "that doesnt explain why we have air pressure without a container." into an AI
and it gave me back this:

maybe thats is something else its called

idr it cant be but ive been so confused

i dont want to be gassed anymore

and now im ill

its

its the devil

it is the creature

in the hole

i said i would
 
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