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cwage
Now go read Foucault's Pendulum and never sleep again. (this message sponsored by Luther Blissett)
Arguile
I mean. Flat earthers aren’t “real” right?
GodEmperor0fMankind
I get the feeling that the person who posed the question was trying to deal with a flat earther themselves and they just didn't know off the
GodEmperor0fMankind
top of their heads how to actually prove that the earth is round with facts.
BigDickPodrick
Former sailor here. My favourite method is by observing the loom of lighthouse. When a lighthouse is over the horizon, you can still [1/2]
BigDickPodrick
see it for quite some distance if conditions are right because you can see the cone of light beaming up into the sky every few seconds [2/2]
CuriousSoul365
Why we can't rename equator to mid-pole
themuttonisniceandlean
I feel like flat earthers get more attention than they deserve, like Westboro. There can't be that many people that believe that for real.
SpeakerForTheUnLiving
This can be said for basically every group the internet has a hate-on for. Small voices amplified by the very ones who mock them.
thesmelge
I live in Central Scotland. There is Flat Earth graffiti on motorway signs, in supermarkets, on cash machines, and so on.
thesmelge
Kind of hard for them not to get attention when they're being that fucking stupid and obnoxious.#
ShadusMacAoidh
Me: "There can't be anyone stupid enough to eat laundry detergent." Also me: *sees Google has been actively deleting Tide Pod vids* "Fuuuuu"
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
It's because once you've encountered one, it will bother you for a very long time. My mom is one - I can attest to it.
themuttonisniceandlean
Though I suppose stupid knows no bounds. But I don't know a single flat earther and I know a lot of stupid people.
Kovahjin
My brother-in-law believed it for a bit until my sister beat him upside the head and told him to forget that nonsense. I like the guy but-
Kovahjin
-he's as dumb as a sack of particularly retarded bricks.
siddx
If someone is dumb enough to be a flat-earther, they aren't going to understand a word of this.
warhamma
Contact someone on the other side of the world and ask them what part of the day is it.
HowlingDysphoria
That person might just lie to you, to be fair. Convincing someone on this topic would probs require them to witness some results themselves
warhamma
I see your point, however I do think that a person who already isn’t convinced is not going to be convinced by anything anyone says to do
profanelogic
Again, flat earth conspiracy relies on all powerful world governments and religions AGREEING and WORKING TOGETHER to lie to us.
secretoaster
You can live through your life thinking the earth is flat. You can eat tide pods too. Just don't try to change me. I
dans6887
Watch This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EspZtA7C3o
TehBurritoButt
TheRickestRick
Checkmate
JartBanssen
You can also buy a ticket to be a MiG-29 co-pilot and let the pilot take the plane to 40.000 feet. If the earth is still lookong flat from..
kittybuttwiggle
"That's just an optical illusion caused by the way light goes through the atmosphere" - flat earther, probably
JartBanssen
..that height, i will join the flat earth community.
plzbringsnacks
I flew east until I got home again. Boom. Solved.
backet
I think he forgets that people dont believe the earth is flat because they are smart..
ShaunDreclin
Flat earthers want to think they're brilliant scientists without actually doing any of the work that real scientists did and still do today.
iMuteMorons
Lunar eclipses are kind of a giveaway. The earth casts a rounded shadow...
Ireallycantthinkofanythingbetterrightnow
well, maybe flat earth is circular
CarrotSharpener
A round disk would though if the Sun was right behind it.
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RecurringNightmare
for them the moon is an independend source of light, like the sun, so the darkening isnt made by earths shadow...
WaterblightGanon
disc, probably.
RedOvermorrow
You believe the moon is real?
HFlashman
How can the moon be real if our eyes aren‘t round? Or something.
sweetnaivety
well the moon itself is rounded/spherical and so gives itself a rounded shadow.. not that I'm a flat-eartherbut they need way more convincin
Seanizonfire
A crescent moon is just the Earth's shadow reflected on the moon. That proves it is round, otherwise there would be no curvature/ crescent
SuckAnElf
They would just say a disk is round and casts a round shadow, doesn’t need to be a sphere
Counterfit
A crescent moon is in the moon's shadow, not earth's. Lunar phases are not partial eclipses
LeadByBadExample
How can it give itself shade? Can you make a shadow of your head on your own head?
sweetnaivety
Never taken an art class? Point a light (Sun) at a sphere (Moon) and then tell me what shape the shadow is.
LeadByBadExample
But it can't cast that shadow on itself. Never had logic class?
sweetnaivety
I never said it casts a shadow on itself, I said it gives itself a rounded shadow. Because it's a sphere. So if you shine a light on it, -
Counterfit
Yes it can. If you face a light source, your back is in your own shadow. Lunar phases are the moon's own shadow.
krevtrocity
A flat earther down voted.. what a chode
Insomnia297
76 chodes and counting.
butIdontownasuitJudith
Ah yes. The choden one.
Serverdamager
75 chodes so far.
CadeII
I just burst out laughing at chode +1
irizarryquique
38!!!! That's it!
z3lfmoord
+1 for chode
Gibenitural
Make it chodu and it becomes a potent insult in Hindi.
Ilikepinkfloyd
Chodu is an insult? I never heard it...
30ddroTaker
Chode. . second time this year I've seen that word
lcplspanky
Watch trippin the rift, it’s the main character’s name so you will hear it a few times
Eon380
I have a friend that has made this word a part of his everyday vocab. I get to hear it all year-around
tacopartyinyourmouth
It's a go to curse word of mine
Jisharagu
Google Translator does not translate... What does it mean?
AEvilNyanKat
Its a small penis basically
iamagrocerybag
Nono it's a penis that is wider than it is long.
iamagrocerybag
A penis that is wider than it is long
Jisharagu
Thanks!
bngd
Wait, I thought it was that area between the penis and the anus. I was lied to!
EyeFarted
I would've just told them to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower and jump off.
csp256
While you're in Oslo you can also visit the Foucault pendulum at the "fysisk institutt" of the "Universitetet i Oslo".
csp256
It is the south-south-east most building on the main promenade of the Blindern campus. Also, check out the vapor chamber. :)
IShavedMyBalls4This
In Oslo, you can also be subjected to Lutefisk and die horribly, or wish you had.
PacomeDeCardognac
You shaved for THIS?
ImGooder
Hey nerd. Just say science next time. Us stupid folk will shut up instantly.
Cannibal471
My old university had this experiment for anyone to use in the main entrance of the science hall. Great times were had.
EmperorGraviton2814
Why not hust ask them, "where is the edge?"
StatisticallyInsignificantCanadian
Can a flat-earther help me out here: what shape do you think this flat plane is? I mean, assuming it does not extend infinitely....
RecurringNightmare
they think the north pole is the center of a disk...south pole is the outer edge and the big conspiracy governments block access there...
petroach
He's in New York with the rest of the band recording their participation in the Grammy's...
LobsterBandito
At least he isn’t a pice of shit...or is he?
Monistat7
How do they explain flying to a location going west or east
Shewy92
Have you never seen a map? It's a straight shot.
ShinkuTear
That's the point, it only works if the world isn't flat, cause you'd go off the non-existent edge if it was flat.
Epinephilim
They literally claim that pilots fly in curved lines.
IsAWookieFetusBaldOrHairy
Pilots do fly in curved lines. Have you ever looked at a map of flight paths? /bait
Epinephilim
Well, to compensate for flying east to west, then. I do know lots of actual flight paths are not straight.
sweetnaivety
i think they say if you go eat or west you end up going in a circle.. because you follow a map and it tells you where to go.. or something -
sweetnaivety
(2) dumb like that.
Anonaru
They just say "a big ice wall blocks the edge all the way around."
Insomnia297
So climb it or fly over it. It should be easily provable.
PainGwen
Boy are they gonna be embarrassed when all the ice melts and life as we know it is a distant echo. Smh.
lunaeller
Is that how they explain the oceans not spilling off the sides?
Insomnia297
As stupid as this sounds: yes.
DahPrincess
Where's the wall
Anonaru
No clue, didn't read into em that much :[
MediaMuerte
They say the south pole is a wall
Aegis7
trump hasn't built it yet
Irreal
Antarctica
Epinephilim
Antarctica, where it is guarded by conspiracy loyalists who shoot down airplanes. Hence no expeditions.
Bancheis
If there is a wall that blocks the edge of the world, it wouldn't just be in Antarctica, it would be around the whole thing...
Suur
The idea from them is that the North Pole is at the center, with everything else extending around it, and Antarctica at the edges
CountVorkosigan
How do the conspiracy loyalists get to Antarctica if they shoot down all the airplanes?
Daeyelle
IFF's
Epinephilim
They don't shoot down their own airplanes, dummy!
JiffyGee
They have one of these in out city’s museum. Cool to watch.
failedprocess
I believe the science museum in our state Capitol has one as well.
cinematicheart
Franklin Institute in Philly has one.
Counterfit
Museum of Science in Boston does too
TatersWhatsTatersPrecious
if they believe the earth is flat, they're not going to believe any of this voodoo pendulum shit.
KraeMoon
They could buy a round-the-world plane ticket and post a pic from the edge of the flat earth?
ChickenFingerFingers
Exactly, because it interferes with eating Tide Pods.
Jisharagu
Hahaha, great comment. Made me chuckle, in a sensible way, of course!
SeaInfernoRex
In all honesty I, for the life of me, cannot comprehend how actual living human beings can think the earth is flat.
SeaInfernoRex
Like, there is no possible way I can believe anyone living with todays technology is mentally disabled enough to believe the earth is flat.
SeaInfernoRex
If you have internet access or access to an up to date library and can still think the earth is flat, then you're Fuckin ignorant dicks.
StoleYourPounds
voodoo people was a great remix you swine.
Devante
Exactly ha.
krokoschoko
yeah, far more likely to tell them about horizons.
arestris
And that's the problem. Someone who beliefs the earth is flat has a problem with scientific theories and methods in the first place.
Pishposhbingbong
I’m starting to think some of them are being intentionally obtuse in an effort to annoy Elon enough to give them a free ride on his rocket.
nesurame
that is a far better conspiracy theory than the flat earth theory in its entirety
BronzeLeaguePro
Which is why you always start by nailing down the goalposts. WHAT would it take for you to change your mind? Start *there*.'
Phischstaebchen
just say a person who beliefs in flatearth is just breaking the dumb-scale
HandsomeSwede
*believes
Phischstaebchen
dang, everytime. befliefs is the plural?
HandsomeSwede
Exactly! A person who believes has belief in something. A person who believes in several things has several beliefs.
Flyndaran
Belief in conspiracy theories in general. Literally no evidence can't be explained with paranoia and "them".
smellsmiketeenspirit
Scientific theories are fine until a better theory comes up. I believe a trip in a balloon will be more convincing than foucault's demo.
frickenunbelievable
If you live in new York call your friend in LA at the break of dawn. Stay on the phone 4 hours till they see the sunrise.
alnilamhydra
The earth is flat but the sun goes behind it, causing this effect.
EpsilonBeSmallerZero
While night time gaming we sometimes told each other when the sun had risen and even across Germany it was significant. :)
Norfolkanchancehere
What about if it's an overcast day.
tyr888
Then the earth is proven to be flat
TheRealArclight
right ....if the earth was truly flat...sun rise and sun set would be the same FOR EVERYONE......there...enough of the BS.
CountVorkosigan
But what if the light just moves really slow because of the magical field produced by the spinning of the Disc around the Hub?
HFlashman
The turtle does move!
RatherRunWhenYouCantCrawl
Not if there are mountains and other obstructions in the way
ABluntForce
Well that depends on the scale of the flat plane to the size of the illumination's source, doesn't it?
TheRealArclight
lol the sun is to high to make a difference....
grammarfairy
"They're lying!"
iamdeadlol
CheshireCad
"Yes, the conspirators paid off everyone you know, on the off chance you'd call them at fucking 3 am with no warning. Good job." *hangs up*
IHateApostrophes
Not that I believe in it, but a flat earther would respond with something stupid like this:
PenisShapedPoops
The longer I stare at this the worse it gets.
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IHateApostrophes
A flat Earth with a much smaller sun and moon moving in a circular motion above it, supposed to explain day and night in a flat Earth world.
sweetnaivety
so are we on a dome?
PoppinFlesh
On a flat disc with a glass-like dome over the top of it. This "top" is refered to as The Ether
sweetnaivety
but then the GIF would be wrong, because the sunlight would go through glass.. it's hitting the earth like it's a dome.
arbelox
I'm curious how the seasons would work, would the sun move close to the edge for 6 months then move back to the center for summer?
WoodfolkFae
Then england wont get any sun for 6 months
Illithidbane
That's exactly what they believe, yes
ParryLost
It's like epicycles. Maybe it's possible to construct a self-consistent flat earth model, but you'd have to add so many fiddly details to ->
ParryLost
-> make it all work together, that by the end it'd just be a thousand times simpler to admit that we probably just live on a sphere.
bpetersen
This shows that the moon would a full moon every night... With no crescent or waning phases
neddieseagoon
And no eclipse ever. Of either body
kalethan
There's still a portion of time where NYC has light and LA doesn't. Might not be 4 hours, but....still invalidates flat earthers.
FatherofRogerSimon10
I don't understand how do we go over the edge and come back around
BugNotAFeature
jimmythejedi
They conveniently say that Antarctica is the edge. The one continent that makes travelling across very hard.
Gruwidge
Portals, you gotta think with portals
bluesquaress
this
Gruwidge
NOW your thinking with portals!
erischilde
They believe that all flights are up and down and lie about going around you never need to go to the edge to get everywhere. It's messed up.
Niteskye4
How do they explain being able to see the slight curvature from a plane?
KingBanana8008
They say that you need to be twice as high as normal commercial planes to see any curve. Source: I’ve been to their official website
TharrickLawson
Genuinely, that the lens in the eye is curved and this distorts your vision. -_-
Jasarg
Apparently their explanation for the edge is "Giant wall of ice that no one can pass" if you say "But they have gone across it" they deny.
IHateApostrophes
You forgot that it's guarded by the UN.
Jasarg
The insanely expensive and large amount of men in boats patrolling in the ocean all sworn to secrecy about giant ice walls. +1
ButtsMcGee86
Even that example makes the earth look round...
SkiMaskThePlumpGod
right, if it's flat why wouldn't you be able to see the sun/ moon from a spot that isn't illuminated?
LoonyBoBdammitwhotookmyname
More notably, why is it rising and setting from the horizon?
OutrageousHemmorhoid
Touche! Let’s see them talk their way out of that. Light rays are one sided, probably...
SourmanTheWise
Because according to flat-earthers there's a physical render limit to the human eye, like in a game. (Studied with one)
SkiMaskThePlumpGod
wow, that's fucking sad
StayBigMoneySalvia
That's ludicrous. Do they think the sun isn't that bright? I hate flat earthers but this is a step lower.
IHateApostrophes
What I like about this image is that it means you should never see a sunset or sunrise. The sun would just become dimmer and disappear.
neddieseagoon
Using this model, explain a solar eclipse. Now explain a lunar eclipse.
cragath
This went.. over the edge.
KingBanana8008
This really makes zero fucking sense, which does not surprise me. Why is the sun the size of the moon
skatha
well duh, they couldn't eclipse each other if they weren't the same size. (*weeps tears of science*)
merelyadequategooglymoogly
OMG I get it now. My eyes have been opened. Thanks!
ermahgerdawoman
IHateApostrophes
Oh no, what have I done?
Sigge1981
So Greenland never has a night. It's constant daytime.
IHateApostrophes
I guess in the summer that's not far from the truth.
SirButcher
I can see the Moon when the Sun is up, and what about the solar eclipses? So many questions! :\
ABluntForce
That is a pinprick of a star, and would look so to the observers on the surface. Nothing like our Sun.
IHateApostrophes
The argument is that the sun is smaller but it's closer so looks just as big. And yeah I don't know their argument against eclipses.
ABluntForce
I dunno, man, that's pretty dumb.
IHateApostrophes
Lol, I'm with you. I just like playing devil's advocate.
ABluntForce
Also, the moon was locked with the sun and did not exhibit even a semi-elliptical transit, as needed in order to reproduce moon phases.
ABluntForce
In addition, the South Pole was shown to be in perpetual darkness. A simple trip to that territory would disprove this.
ABluntForce
Also, according to that image, from the Southern hemisphere the sun rises in the north, and stays there all day until it sets in the north.
LeumisRichardson
Easier: Get some high quality surveying equipment and go to Bonneville Salt Flats. With precise equipment you can actually measure curvature
3toedsloth
It's just a hill - flat earthers, probably.
LeumisRichardson
Yea. Neat thing is you can measure the G vector at every point on the line & still find deviation from horizontal to level lines.
TheOfflineEnigma
The salt flats are actually, get this, flat. No curve is detectable there, or over any stretch of land. They even produce a clear reflection
LeumisRichardson
Yes, curvature is detectable. Indeed, in surveying a correction needs to be applied or you muck with both your levels and inscribed angles.
TheOfflineEnigma
of the sky at certain times, something that is impossible for a curved surface to do. Not a flat earthtard, just see a lot of people who
TheOfflineEnigma
misunderstand science and use common misconceptions and fallacies when trying to prove them wrong; which only emboldens their argument.
LeumisRichardson
Have you yourself done the measurement? I have. (though not at Bonneville particularly) It was using a decent mechanical transit and level.
thesmelge
Even easier, get on a plane and look out the fucking window.
LeumisRichardson
But many will claim illusion. Neat thing about a transit and level and long sight lines is that you are taking a real physical measurement.
ImADoctorNotAnImgurian
Um, obviously plane windows have technology that makes it look like the earth is curved?? Duh. /Sarcasm
thesmelge
See, trolls or not, people like this are deliberately dumbing down society. Euthanise the lot of them. It's the only way to be sure.
AliBarber
A question for the folk downvoting.. Do you really believe the earth is flat?
Tkeleth
Lots of downvote fairies, too. lol
PhailRaptor
A few, probably. Most are probably more in line of thinking that a flat earther would never believe any of this either. Too complex a proof.
LeadByBadExample
Yeah, I find it interesting because I'm not a flat earther, but I have my doubts that a flat earther would find this credible.
HowlingDysphoria
Flat earthers have their own pseudo-science that can sound semi-credible to people as long as you don't dwell on it for longer than a second
LeadByBadExample
Or even understand it.
PhailRaptor
The saying goes, "You can't fight stupid with facts -- they're too stupid to understand them."
LeadByBadExample
Yeah. The Dunning-Kruger effect is also heavily at play here. You know so little about a subject that you don't know how little you know.
abundantbadgers
I don't get what flat earthers think "the conspiracy" has to gain to "trick you" into thinking the world is round.
thesmelge
Same as a lot of conspiracies. They're such dull, shitty people that it makes them feel superior to be in on something nobody believes.
Rexli78
They think it's some kind of conspiracy to overthrow religion... in spite of the fact the Catholic Church really had no problem adapting to
Rexli78
heliocentrism after the Protestant Reformation blew over.
krokoschoko
I mean jeez, heliocentrism is already WAY past flat earth, the Catholic church never had any problem with a round earth.
TheHispanicAutomobileMechanic
Firmament or something of the sort
abundantbadgers
I think either way, they don't want to believe? Just stay out of everyone else's way while we progress.
raminagrobis
Apart from being evil, money. To sell movies based on space, toy rockets and spaceships, satellite antennas, GPS devices, etc.
abundantbadgers
I'm guessing that can happen anyways haha I mean there's not much real science in Star Wars.
Rexli78
This seems like the dumbest conspiracy ever. Were people 2000 years ago really thinking.
Rexli78
"You know in like 2000 years we can use this shit to sell movies and toys."
dowingba
Could space movies not exist if the earth was flat?
raminagrobis
2/2 You'll also hear that rocket science is a hoax because rockets can't move in empty space, etc.
raminagrobis
FEers usually deny the whole existence of space and in particular satellites. They work with orbits and give pics of Earth so they're fake.
dowingba
What do they think they're seeing at night time when they look up?
raminagrobis
Well biblical ones go for the dome. Others might say stars are just lights and not physical matter. Or government holograms.
Robbie9595
My uh kid wants to know what happens at the south pole
gavr1loo
Seal rapes...
RelevantImgurian
The earth revolved the opposite way, I hope this helps xxxxxxxxxx
ItsActuallyDavidNow
It falls off because you forgot to tape the dang ol’ thing down.
SuicideIsNotAnOption
I'm not sure you understand how adding "dang ol'thing" created your comment's brilliance in the context of flat-earth discussion.
jkeveren
Rotates the other direction
BurtChanceTheRapper
This. This happens at the south pole. Stay. The. Fuck. Away.
InTheBeginningWasTheNerd
The same thing. But upside down.
jigglypuff66
Cthulhu will sign your pendulum.
Vyrro
You have to climb a 200 foot ice wall and battle guard boats employed by NASA...plus you will run into a dome
GodEmperor0fMankind
I'm guessing it rotates counterclockwise
KLUSTENATOR
At the same rate as the north pole
killernerd
Correct.
Wolfdoc
It rotates at the same speed as on the north pole, just in the opposite direction. If you wonder why, find your kid's ball and look at it.
AlmostClever
Shape-shifting aliens according to this documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
Robbie9595
I've seen that historical document
JKJM
You get to eat a sandwich.
acviz
I got that reference.
00000042
It rotates counter clockwise, 360 degrees per day
CambianDarkhorse
Penguins will mug you and take your pendulum for their collection of Flat earth gawkers
Techpriest93
You fall off the earth it was only a semi circle all along ahahaha
Flyndaran
John Carpenter's The Thing will eat him. That's the only way to deal with flat earthers.
GuacamoleMoleMolester
raminagrobis
People need to wear magnetic shoes
Sm9yCg
What happens at the south pole, stays at the south pole!
MusicIsJustWigglyAir
Penguins fuck
fundubentalist
penguins. penguins happen.
Textinabox
I assume that it would rotate counterclockwise as time went on at various point of the southern hemisphere.
Donkeystrength
It rotates the other direction with the same results
Robbie9595
I are so smart now
InnsmouthTourist
https://imgur.com/WA4UnRy
snailphotography
Your pendulum will get very cold.
cptwott
along with other body parts
tiffwhaaa
And thus a bit smaller.
Cheomesh
This is accurate.
theboringusername
And then it shrivels but it's only because of the cold so Karen if you're reading this please stop telling your friends that it's so small
KeepYourDickInAVice
It's a grower not a shower Karen.
RabidusUnus
Duh, the South Pole is the scam, it's just an ice wall that surrounds our one of a kind floating disc in space.
salemblack
Like in dark city.
tyr888
sulfuratus
Oh shit, it's a big 'nam flag in the sky!
irizarryquique
tyr888
keredomo
That one was taken from David Cronenberg's Scanners
pc404
North or South Pole, the plane of oscillation of a pendulum remains pointing in the same direction while the Earth rotates underneath it
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
What happen if attach one end of a rope to the earth and the other to the moon and then with the sun to the moon sun and earth and all 1/2
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
Together now and then one to the sun to the closest star and furthest
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
black hole/star
bpbutler61
Wut?
youmeandabottleofwhiskey
Thank you, science side of Imgur.
Dum8kid
https://imgur.com/J7eNiZh <3
ElecTech
This would be assuming the pendulum is pivoted by a ball joint so can swing freely in any direction as opposed to a simple axial mount.
aguacatedeldiablo
Given the he didn't say construct "a pendulum" but rather "a Foucault's pendulum", I think those details are accounted for
reddocs
that would mean it needs also one day but rotates counterclockwise?
ManWithFace
so the pendulum would appear to rotate in the opposite direction from your frame of reference but really it's because in space youre upside-
ManWithFace
-down in reference to your position on the north pole. right?
pennalet
Ya
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
what happens if you do this on the moon or sun
Imixmywhiskeywithmilk
You get colder or hotter, respectively.
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
no what happens to the thing
TargetedAdBot
First you have to find magnetic south and north poles.
eggboy
Why? Magnetism has nothing to do with this experiment
TargetedAdBot
Oh right, my bad
FilipeNogueira
Even considering the Earth is tilted?
UltimaAvalon
Although the Earth is tilted, it still rotates on the axis of an imaginary line that goes from the N Pole, through the core, to the S Pole
flummoxed0709
Tilted means nothing as far as the gravity goes. It's outside the system of reverence
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
What happens if you attach it to a very long rope & put it in outer space then an even longer one that leaves the bowshock our solar system
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
then one all the way to the closet system
egoAristippos
You need the earth‘s gravity for the pendulum to move; the higher you hang it the more effort to built the effect is the same
TheQuestionFewpeopledoFeweventhinktoaskthequestion
no not the earth the gravity from the obioting of the sun and gaxlay
PatrickTrimble
I had to read that sentence a few times before i understood. I am a simple man
insanedoge
i had to read your sentence a couple of times too before I understood. I am an even simpler man
pdiddy31415
And funny, too. +1
SerenePrincess013
...... I am a tad too sauced to--oh.... duh. Ok, maybe I should quit drinking for the night.
CPatricoo
lunaeller
Me right now
CountVorkosigan
The pendulum doesn't care which way the earth points, only which way it's swinging. So if you swing it at a star, the pendulum will 1/3
CountVorkosigan
will stay swinging back and forth at that star. Meanwhile the earth will spin underneath it making it look like the pendulum and star 2/3
CountVorkosigan
are both moving when really it's the earth that's doing the moving. The confusing part is that you're frame of reference is locked to 3/4
passiveaggressivesesquipedalian
Will it rotate counter clockwise?
MrPhukett
No.
00000042
Yes. Trust me I am a physicist
Fluffycorn
I think north of the equator it goes clockwise and south of it anti-clockwise, right?
Vedar
Should do as it's upside down from the one at the north
TinyFrog
Don't take my word on this, but I think so, yes! I believe that's the coriolis effect.
downofathistle
Are you a magician with a hidden camera show?
pizzapartyhard
Just like Australian toilets!
pizzapartyhard
Before any one points it out, i know the water in toilets jets out at an angle and the counterclockwise draining only happens to still water
SerenePrincess013
TinyFrog, are you, by chance, related to TinyOctupus?
OptimisticDownvoteLover
Lotta commas there lol, i thought there was one after each word
TinyFrog
As related as a chinese ripoff!