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Offline AtomicDog

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #30 on: February 07, 2017, 05:04:08 AM »
Why is there never any video of the earth spinning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory#Animations

Looks like video to me.
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Offline tikkitakki

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #31 on: February 07, 2017, 10:30:06 PM »
Quote from: smartcooky on February 06, 2017, 06:00:27 AM
Quote from: Glom on February 06, 2017, 03:23:27 AM


Quote from: smartcooky on February 06, 2017, 02:41:00 AM

Meteostat: Run by EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), an intergovernmental agency involving 30 European Union countries, and based in Darmstadt, Germany. 

Impressive given there are only 28 countries in the EU.

The other two countries are Turkey and Switzerland which, while they are not members of the EU, are memebr states in the EUMETSAT conglomerate.

http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/AboutUs/WhoWeAre/MemberStates/index.html


The other two non-EU countries in EUMETSAT are Iceland and Norway.
I'll leave it as an exercise to find out which EU countries are not EUMETSAT members. (Hint: they are Mediterranean islands.)
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Offline Glom

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #32 on: February 08, 2017, 02:47:55 AM »
Cyprus and Malta, which also happen to be the other two Commonwealth members in the EU.
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Offline Flookie

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #33 on: February 08, 2017, 07:15:03 PM »
Quote from: AtomicDog on February 07, 2017, 05:04:08 AM
Why is there never any video of the earth spinning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory#Animations

Looks like video to me.

I had someone protesting there wasn't live feed from any satellite so we could see the Earth turning rather than a series of stills; when it was pointed out to him the rotation would be too slow to see on a live-feed he suggested it be speeded up.
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Offline grmcdorman

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #34 on: February 08, 2017, 09:36:44 PM »
Quote from: Flookie on February 08, 2017, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: AtomicDog on February 07, 2017, 05:04:08 AM
Why is there never any video of the earth spinning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory#Animations

Looks like video to me.

I had someone protesting there wasn't live feed from any satellite so we could see the Earth turning rather than a series of stills; when it was pointed out to him the rotation would be too slow to see on a live-feed he suggested it be speeded up.

On top of that, there has been live video, copious amounts of it, from the ISS.
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Offline AtomicDog

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2017, 07:47:26 AM »
All video is a series of stills.
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Offline smartcooky

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2017, 01:37:48 PM »
Quote from: Flookie on February 08, 2017, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: AtomicDog on February 07, 2017, 05:04:08 AM
Why is there never any video of the earth spinning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory#Animations

Looks like video to me.

I had someone protesting there wasn't live feed from any satellite so we could see the Earth turning rather than a series of stills; when it was pointed out to him the rotation would be too slow to see on a live-feed he suggested it be speeded up.

Hah, that's funny, that's very funny!

Ask him which he would like speeded up, the Live feed or the Earth's rotation?
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Offline Flookie

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #37 on: February 10, 2017, 05:53:22 PM »
Quote from: smartcooky on February 09, 2017, 01:37:48 PM
Ask him which he would like speeded up, the Live feed or the Earth's rotation?

The live feed by recording it.  :o
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Offline Bryanpoprobson

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2017, 02:51:38 AM »
Flat Earth Eclipse photo.  :o

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Offline smartcooky

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #39 on: March 01, 2017, 04:28:39 AM »
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Offline Bryanpoprobson

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2017, 05:03:34 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Offline Al Johnston

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #41 on: March 01, 2017, 11:28:40 AM »
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Offline Nowhere Man

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #42 on: March 01, 2017, 01:29:44 PM »
And the rest of the turtles!  It's turtles all the way down, young man!

Fred
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Offline smartcooky

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #43 on: March 01, 2017, 03:54:50 PM »
Quote from: Al Johnston on March 01, 2017, 11:28:40 AM
Quote from: smartcooky on March 01, 2017, 04:28:39 AM
Quote from: Bryanpoprobson on March 01, 2017, 02:51:38 AM
Flat Earth Eclipse photo.  :o




FTFY!!





You missed out the Elephants! :D


The elephants are to the left of, and below, the turtle (as depicted here), so their shadows don't fall on the moon.

You and I both know that shadows do weird things on the moon  :) 8)

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Offline twik

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Re: The Earth is actually flat!
« Reply #44 on: March 04, 2017, 07:10:54 AM »
This is why I love this board.
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