Prove the Earth is round

Kumar?
Will you answer my question? What is the slope of a tennis ball? Do you agree you have a formula that you said applies to all spheres? Do you agree it should be VERY SIMPLE to do this according to your formula? If so, what is the answer, please? Will you post it here any time soon?
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xouper said:
I may be going out an a limb here, but I'm willing to venture the supposition that the above explanation wouldn't even pass a Turing test.
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Oh, I agree with you wholeheartedly on this! Looks more like a primitive random phrase generator...
 
Originally posted by Kumar
If we look at a model of earth(round). we can see that there is a great slope from North Pole to Equator's last point on surface. So if we walk from NP along with longitude line upto the center point we have to cover more distance than the radius which looks like a big slope. If we walk along with latitude lines, there is minimal slope(i.e. just the bending of the earth).
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I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, but I think the most appropriate response is still, "spheres are spherically symmetric."

If you gave me a model of the earth (a globe), and I painted it completely white and gave it back to you, would you be able to say where the North Pole was, or where the equator was?
 
69dodge said:
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, but I think the most appropriate response is still, "spheres are spherically symmetric."

If you gave me a model of the earth (a globe), and I painted it completely white and gave it back to you, would you be able to say where the North Pole was, or where the equator was?
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Are you expecting a SERIOUS answer to this from Kumar?
 
If you gave me a model of the earth (a globe), and I painted it completely white and gave it back to you, would you be able to say where the North Pole was, or where the equator was?
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69 dodge,

But why we should do it when poles & equaters exists as per your theories.

Zep,

You are asking same irrelavant question again & again, which is already awnsered by me. I have given slopes & calculations as a common man(like me) can understand & explain. I got this type of measurement of any round thing like your earth. If you have any other calculation which a common man can understand then pls post it here otherwise just accept my views.
 
Originally posted by Kumar
But why we should do it when poles & equaters exists as per your theories.
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I'm sorry. What were we discussing again? I've lost track.
 
All,

Kumar said:
If we look at a model of earth(round). we can see that there is a great slope from North Pole to Equator's last point on surface. So if we walk from NP along with longitude line upto the center point we have to cover more distance than the radius which looks like a big slope. If we walk along with latitude lines, there is minimal slope(i.e. just the bending of the earth).
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Okay, I was imitating Kumar with my last few posts but I can't do it anymore......

BillyJoe
 
69dodge,

I'm sorry. What were we discussing again? I've lost track.
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Discussing again is related to Zep question about tenis ball.

BJ,
Originally posted by Ladewig :
Also, anyone who says that every space photo of the earth is a doctored hoax probably would discount anything seen through a telescope because the device might be rigged to show what the inventor wants it to show.
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BJ: Yes, a person must verify directly what might be wrong
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Yes, like homeopathic remedies.
 
Maybe one should start a thread about the mathematics curriculum at whatever place KUMAR is. Phew!

Without the introduction to an interesting number named pi, he will never grasp the concept of a circle. A sphere is even another dimension away.

Kumar please give the names of your schools. Just to be sure not to hire somebody from there accidentally.

636m... My dear! Kumar you live on a small world...
Tip: walk ~1250 paces in a "straight" line. Turn around. Climbed the 600 m up... Living in the Himalaya, by chance? :hit:
 
Kumar said:
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BJ: Yes, a person must verify directly what might be wrong
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Yes, like homeopathic remedies.
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Seems I didn't do TOO badly imitating Kumar. :D
 
Ingoa: 636m... My dear! Kumar you live on a small world...
Tip: walk ~1250 paces in a "straight" line. Turn around. Climbed the 600 m up... Living in the Himalaya, by chance?
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I therefore surprise, how earth is round??
:D
 
Kumar said:


I therefore surprise, how earth is round??
:D
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I am not surprised. For somebody sleeping during sixth grade maths you "surprise" a lot. I really recommend to buy a mathematics book like this. Serioulsy. Your 636m a plain wrong. You are off by four orders of magnitude (look at previous calculations in this thread). To understand what I mean by that this book might be needed. :book:

On the wisdom of the ancestors... Yesterday I saw a feature in German TV about archeology in Egypt. Apparently the Egyptians believed that the Nile originates from the sweat of the Crocodile God. Gosh, they must have known something. It must have been a God because human sweat is salty and the Nile is not! :rolleyes:
 
Kumar, I look to you for enlightenment-
If the earth is a disc, can you tell me which bits are on which side, and where the edge is? Is the edge smoothed, or sharp like a coin's edges? How thick is the earth disc?
 
If the earth is a disc, can you tell me which bits are on which side, and where the edge is? Is the edge smoothed, or sharp like a coin's edges? How thick is the earth disc?
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I don't know. I can't see as you people have seen or can see. But it looks flat to me & to most of the common public.
 
TillEulenspiegel said:
OOOh! Ohhh! I forgot .......... ( I don't know is someone raised this , I stopped reading the thread as it's stoopit)
the proof is in the sky tonight
Look at the shadow of the earth on the moon during the eclipse tonight. I live in souht florida and I am able to see it as I look out my window. The aussie's will have a better view.
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Hmm, I don't see how an invisible dragon taking a bite of the moon has any bearing on whether the earth is round or not.
 
I originally thought this thread was a result of some statement in another thread about cancer, where it was asked how it could be proved that the Earth was not flat, as an excercise.

So is Kumar taking the devil's advocate position, just trying to make the point that proving a round Earth to an ignorant person would be difficult, or does it really believe that the Earth is flat? What's going on here?
 
CurtC said:
I originally thought this thread was a result of some statement in another thread about cancer, where it was asked how it could be proved that the Earth was not flat, as an excercise.

So is Kumar taking the devil's advocate position, just trying to make the point that proving a round Earth to an ignorant person would be difficult, or does it really believe that the Earth is flat? What's going on here?
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Precisely what I want to know. Except I think there's a short answer. Kumar is a troll.

(OK, you guys think it's obvious the earth is round (spherical). See how frustrating it is when I won't accept a single one of your carefully presented arguments! Now you know how it feels when you refuse to accept any of my careful and self-evident arguments proving that homoeopathy is effective - which I know with as much conviction as you know that the earth is spherical.)

That's all very well, but it completely ignores the validity or strength of the arguments on either side. The arguments that homoeopathy is delusional are pretty much as solid as the arguments that the earth is spherical, and anyone who is looking at the subject dispassionately (rather than mounting a believer-defence of an entrenched position) would have accepted that long ago on this forum. Good grief, even Steve Grenard finally capitulated on that one, which has to be some sort of a first.

Therefore, I'm now with those who conclude the reality of Kumar's trollishness.

Rolfe.
 
Kumar said:
Zep,

You are asking same irrelavant question again & again, which is already awnsered by me. I have given slopes & calculations as a common man(like me) can understand & explain. I got this type of measurement of any round thing like your earth. If you have any other calculation which a common man can understand then pls post it here otherwise just accept my views.
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Why do you think I am asking the same "irrelevant" question? Surely you can you see that it is because you have not answered it? Shouldn't it be simple for you? Do you agree the question is extremely simple to answer? Didn't you say so yourself? Can we get an answer from you to my question any time soon?

Since the question IS so simple, and you say you have an answer but will not tell us, perhaps the REAL reason you don't tell us is because you realise now that you have no idea at all what you are talking about?
 
Shouldn't it be simple for you? Do you agree the question is extremely simple to answer? Didn't you say so yourself?

It it is not so simple & common as I mentioned' then I doubt everything. Similarily, Homeopathy working may also not be so simple to prove in science.

Can we get an answer from you to my question any time soon?

No you can't get more then that which I already mentioned, because niether I know more than that nor I will justify any more if we do not justify other systems.
 
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