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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: The observer effect [FLAT?] |
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Since the most recent comic mentions science, it makes me wonder if people still believe in a flat earth.
Will this affect the political and social-economic crisis that we are currently experiencing?
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Yorick
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"mentions", not meantions, and "affect" in this context.
I'm being pedantic on purpose. I saw a trailer for a foreign movie over the weekend with misspelled subtitles and it pissed me off.
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Mikewee777
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Yorick"]"mentions", not meantions, and "affect" in this context.
I'm being pedantic on purpose. I saw a trailer for a foreign movie over the weekend with misspelled subtitles and it pissed me off.[/quote]
Thank you for correcting me. I'm using a public PC that lacks spell-check but has a firewall that seems to appeal to the Republican Right Wing.
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Sojobo
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Actually, I could totally see belief in a flat earth effecting political and economic crises.
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Superninfreak
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, there are probably SOME people that believe in a flat earth, but those people are hopefully kinda rare.....but you never know with the average person...
| Yorick wrote: | "mentions", not meantions, and "affect" in this context.
I'm being pedantic on purpose. I saw a trailer for a foreign movie over the weekend with misspelled subtitles and it pissed me off. |
I'm pretty sure "effect" is the noun. |
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CTrees
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Sheesh, someone drew me into posting in this high quality thread.
Supernin, effect is both a verb and a noun. Affect is also both a verb and a noun.
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nathan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:49 am Post subject: Re: The observer effect [FLAT?] |
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| Mikewee777 wrote: | Since the most recent comic mentions science, it makes me wonder if people still believe in a flat earth.
Will this affect the political and social-economic crisis that we are currently experiencing? |
Actually, recent studies have shown that 67% of left leaning voters believe in a flat earth. The reason most commonly cited by poll respondents is that "I don't roll when I fall down." Will this have an impact on the current crisis? I suppose it depends the crisis you're referring to. If you mean the economic crisis, I'd certainly say yes. Whether they like it or not, politicians will bend to their base in order to maintain reelectability. I fully expect the democrats to run the table in this election, so that high percentage of liberal flat-earthers will have a disproportionately large influence on public policy over the next four years. In practical terms, this means we should probably expect to see a massive series of tax hikes on the petroleum and mining industries. The primary worry, assuming a flat earth, is that large corporate drilling operations run the risk of punching through the bottom of the earth. Liberals tend to view this with a wariness reminiscent of the current global warming debate; we don't know specifically what the long term effects of a puncture are likely to be, but we don't expect them to be good. Most predictions from modern researchers indicate the possibility for a wind (probably the result of differing air pressures above and below the earth), but the magnitude of that wind is something we just don't have the data to predict. Will it be a pleasant wafting breeze? Will it be a torrent that rips the earth asunder? We just don't know. And that's the point. At the same time, even the pseudo-socialists of the American Far Left recognize the fundamental role oil and mining play in maintaining our economic stability, so shutting off drilling altogether is generally considered to be off the table. The safe play is to gradually increase taxes, thus minimizing the likelihood of bottoming out (both metaphorically and literally!), while pouring those extra tax dollars into wind technology which is only moderately profitable at the moment, but which can pay off in spades should our worst nightmare, a Global Puncture, actually occur.
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Usagi Miyamoto
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:39 am Post subject: I wonder what the upper limit on the rotation rate is... |
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On average, the Earth is pretty flat. I think the total vertical variation from the local mean is around 0.15% of the diameter. If you're not averaging it out, though, it's fairly rough on most scales up to maybe tens of kilometers. Overall, I've heard it's about as smooth as a billiard ball, though not quite as spherical. Not unexpected for what to a first approximation is a spinning blob of molten metal.
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Yorick
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I live where there are mountains and hills and valleys and about a fifty foot drop into the river. It's not flat at all.
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