Random Thought Thread

ferider said:
Take a big lake in winter, when it's frozen. Put up 3 posts. At zero, 1 km, and 2 km. Use Chip's green laser. Shoot from post 1 to post 3 at the same height, say 1m. Measure the height of the laser at the middle post, should be 92cm. If the lake is larger and the ice is rough, scale up for more accuracy.

Don't break through the ice when you put the posts in :) .... in case of doubt use camera tripods instead.
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this has been done.
 
ferider said:
Take a big lake in winter, when it's frozen. Put up 3 posts. At zero, 1 km, and 2 km. Use Chip's green laser. Shoot from post 1 to post 3 at the same height, say 1m. Measure the height of the laser at the middle post, should be 92cm. If the lake is larger and the ice is rough, scale up for more accuracy.

Don't break through the ice when you put the posts in :) .... in case of doubt use camera tripods instead.
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here is a version of that test with different colored lights placed on the surface of frozen water

please watch it.

 
The Amazing Virginian said:
What year did your father graduate from the Citadel? Must have been early 50s? My dad (RIP) graduated from there, too. In 1955. I still have his class ring . . . and I think (?) his diploma, somewhere (I believe General Mark Clark signed it). And my uncle coached the football team (along with Al Davis, who later coached and then owned the Oakland Raidahs!) in the 1950s.
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Graduated 1951. He had a very interesting career.
 
yoko said:
WTF happened while I was at work


......Frantically looking for chicken......


I better grab me a beer while I'm at it
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Nathan the Machinist said:
This does make me think of an experiment that a person could do to prove that a earth is flat or round


Maybe somebody could check me on this one and tell me if I'm thinking about this right


You could use a master precision level and a laser beam on a tower above the ground high enough to reduce ground level refraction (the mirage effect) and set that laser beam to be shooting as perfectly horizontal as possible towards another tower some large distance away. Another level at that distance would be referencing the Earth slightly different. It would be slight, but it would be meaningful and significant and reproducible. That laser would hit that tower at a spot and you set up another laser at that spot and shoot it back to the original tower. If the Earth is flat that second laser will shoot straight down the first laser. But if the earth is round the second laser will be elevated.

This should be simple enough for some flat earther to actually do.
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I saw a video where they did something similar and were feet off of one another. The videographers ended it on that note with the tester questioning what went wrong.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
did you watch this video listing all of the government documents stating that they dont use a spinning ball model to calculate things?
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If you pause it and read the paragraphs shown in those documents instead of just the underlined words “flat earth” and listening to the guy say those words, it’s explained why they’re using those “assumed flat earth” calculations and it’s NOT because the earth is flat, it’s because the set data (to include other forced constants into the equations like atmosphere pressure) are used to get a simplified baseline. Most of those documents looked like plane and weapon guidance system related and one even says that several methods other than the flat earth assumption are used to achieve the closest possible real life calculations.
 
Tools_and_Tights said:
Hey Mr. Nathan!
Idk if this is common knowledge but are you going to take videos of the selection of knives you’re offering at Blade show this coming June?

Thank you for your time!
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Video? No.

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But it looks like we are up around 120 knives today. I'll post some pictures and some kind of a list but we are on track to have plenty of inventory at Blade Show this year.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Video? No.

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The reason I’m asking is because some of the knives listed as Blade Show inventory I’ve never seen. So yeah pictures would be awesome. Thank you so much for all the work you and your team does!

But it looks like we are up around 120 knives today. I'll post some pictures and some kind of a list but we are on track to have plenty of inventory at Blade Show this year.
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