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18th May 2019, 05:12 AM | #2361 |
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18th May 2019, 05:15 AM | #2363 |
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Good News! I found some Indian scientists at a major conference presenting findings that look largely in accordance with your ideas! You have support OUTSIDE of the Flat Earth communities! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46778879 |
18th May 2019, 05:58 AM | #2364 |
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18th May 2019, 05:58 AM | #2365 |
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18th May 2019, 06:25 AM | #2366 |
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How does "exhaust push(ing) in air" cause "back pressure"?
Exhaust gases exit the rocket and hit the air molecules. Then....? In order to have "pressure" you need a force. What is the force being applied to the rocket? You can't be suggesting that the expelled gas is coming back at the rocket, that's completely idiotic (you love simple analogies - blow air out of your mouth...do you feel a breeze in your face? No. That's your rocket exhaust in the atmosphere) |
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18th May 2019, 06:53 AM | #2367 |
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I am thinking of starting a thread called "Aeroplanes can't fly", or "Bernoulli? Schmernoulli!", just so that we can talk about something different.
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18th May 2019, 07:14 AM | #2368 |
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18th May 2019, 08:07 AM | #2369 |
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18th May 2019, 08:08 AM | #2370 |
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I already in original post. No one has rebutted it thus far
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18th May 2019, 08:09 AM | #2371 |
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18th May 2019, 08:27 AM | #2372 |
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18th May 2019, 09:38 AM | #2374 |
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Bwahaha! Everyone has rebutted it. And proven in the process that you don't know the first thing about math or physics.
What direction is the pressure inside a basketball? You don't know. You barely think you know what a vector is, which is why you drop such howlers like mass flow rate being a vector. At this point who do you think you're fooling? |
18th May 2019, 09:41 AM | #2375 |
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But according to your balloon-car experiment, jet airplanes (and rockets) would start losing thrust at a mere 800 meters of altitude above sea level, which is below ground level where I live. You can't explain that. Why? Because despite your waffling over "simple experiments," you can't do even a little bit of physics with actual numbers.
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18th May 2019, 09:44 AM | #2376 |
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Nope.
Here's the post where we finally got you to admit that that's not what happens. You don't get to put that genie back in the bottle. And we challenged you to follow it up with actual math, which of course you cannot do because your argument lacks any sort of mathematical or physical rigor. It's just troll-style handwaving. |
18th May 2019, 09:48 AM | #2377 |
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FTFY
I and a few others do it for a living. We know what we're doing. You claim that we're all being paid to lie about it, and I've asked you repeatedly for evidence of that fact. I'm daring you to call me a liar. I'm daring you to prove your claim that I'm being bribed. C'mon, flat-Earth boy. Put your money where your mouth is. |
18th May 2019, 09:58 AM | #2378 |
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18th May 2019, 09:59 AM | #2379 |
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An exploding soda can moves in a vacuum. According to Flat Earth Rocket Theory (FERT) that should not be possible.
Explain this. |
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18th May 2019, 10:10 AM | #2382 |
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18th May 2019, 10:11 AM | #2383 |
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I'm satisfied by the last 50 years or longer of our space program, the existence of GPS and other satelites around our Earth and all the probes we've sent to Mars and the other outer planets.
If that isn't enough for you, that's your choice, but I wonder what makes you think you have the right to demand random people prove to you things you clearly just don't want to believe? You're the one taking the contrary view that conventional physics teaches is all wrong and that you know the "truth". The onus is on you to prove to us that you're right, and so far your efforts have been feeble. |
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18th May 2019, 10:17 AM | #2384 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBRQXxBRic
Neat video though I can't say I'm disappointed that this guy isn't my neighbor. |
18th May 2019, 10:20 AM | #2385 |
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18th May 2019, 10:23 AM | #2386 |
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What does that have to do with a rocket exhaust?
What do you take the 'sound barrier' to be? If we take away the 14psi of atmosphere we still have thousands of pounds of pressure in a rocket exhaust. Why is that 14 psi so important? Why does a rocket work in a vacuum chamber? |
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This whole thread can be summed up as casting pearls before swine
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18th May 2019, 10:53 AM | #2389 |
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Rockets don't work in space, next he'll be telling us the world is flat.
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18th May 2019, 11:38 AM | #2390 |
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I'm thinking seriously of reporting the thread and asking it be moved to humor. It certainly doesn't belong in Science.
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18th May 2019, 11:40 AM | #2391 |
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On this idea that there must be something to push against for thrust to work, let's consider the F-18C Hornet. In Super cruise mode, that is supersonic flight without afterburner, the exhaust from the engine is at about 680 mph, relative to the aircraft. The aircraft is making about 777 mph through the air. That means that the exhaust is actually traveling forward, rather than backward, at almost 100 mph, relative to the air. What is the exhaust pushing against?
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18th May 2019, 02:25 PM | #2397 |
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Not only do rockets not work in a vacuum, they don't even work in the atmosphere.
Look at this picture. Orion-1-KSCVC[1]-727987a.jpg See the chains and wires holding down all the space craft. That's because if you remove the chains, the ship will fly off into space. You see, they all have stolen alien anti gravity engines in them. You know, the alien stuff stolen from all those crashed ufo's. The rocket motors are a diversion to make sure nobody finds out about the anti gravity stuff. |
18th May 2019, 02:52 PM | #2398 |
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https://youtu.be/vHWDNrrfhnI
Chinese rocket launch. Ginger you should inform the Chinese government of their folly. After you inform them move on to the Indian government, Israel government, the European Space agency, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos https://youtu.be/_LUmZqTmAZA https://youtu.be/-oILApXqPMI |
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I wonder if this might be gingervytes?
https://youtu.be/AubIFUsq7Ss |
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