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flatfloor
12-26-2002, 11:47 AM
Taken from the F.E. website.

I would like to nominate the author to a position as a full time professor on the S.H.I.T. faculty. :D

We of the Flat Earth Society are willing to do what it takes to make our message known. We may have started small, but we're branching out and earning the trust and following of lots of people. Although the steps we've taken may seem a little drastic to the outside observer, we feel that, in the end, the net gain will justify the means. Here are a few of our victories. . .

-----In the small town of Grass Roots, MO, one of our members has successfully infiltrated the public education system. By being hired on as a teacher in the district, she was able to gain a foothold that has allowed us to "replace" nearly every lower grade teacher in the entire town with loyal Flat Earthers. The students are now undergoing deprogramming measures and are expected to be released when they reach their mid-thirties.

Over a period of several months, over half of the workers in the Wisconsin state prison system were "relocated", their positions filled by our associates. The list of replacements includes 7 guards, 957 cafeteria workers, 3716 Pepsi machine repairmen and 14 members of the clergy. With our operatives strategically emplaced, the convicts and felons are being given a healthy dose of "pro-Flat Earth" propaganda.
Success story: Upon escaping during a bloody shootout that left 19 prison workers and 27 prisoners dead, a reformed felon known only as "Rasp" went directly to a payphone and contacted our HQ. He is currently working in place of "retired" health-care worker Mr. Sonnovin at the Green Acres nursing home in Charlamange, WI.
-----After spending over sixteen million dollars and using over 48 thousand yards of industrial strength strapping tape, we of the Flat Earth Society were able to construct an enormously powerful neurotransmitter that can implant suggestions directly into the brains of the nearby non-Flat Earthers. Having set it up just outside of the Russian Antarctic exploration post (Vostok), we are awaiting word that all three scientists and 174 penguins have been shown the light.

-----Three loyal Flat Earth Society members, during a camping trip to the small African nation of Tunisia, came across a privately-owned 59 minute photo stand in the isolated northernmost corner of the desert country. Employing guerilla warfare techniques learned under Mao Zedong in the early 1920's, they were able to effortlessly seize control of the stand and are now using it to distribute pro-Flat Earth propaganda throughout the West African region.

-----On an unrelated note, we of the Flat Earth Society would like to wish a very happy forty-fifth birthday to Edmund Wilbur, our Vice-President in charge of Public Relations. Happy birthday to you, Wilbur, and to all our other members whose birthdays are also today, but whose importance fails to merit a mention by name.

-----Dilligent Flat Earth Society members under the employ of Delta Airlines undertook a project which will no doubt bring countless numbers of motion-sickness prone individuals into the ranks of our organization. Using only permanent markers and every airsickness bag on planes restricted to west coast travel, they were able to neatly outline the Flat Earth Society mission statement on enough receptacles so as to spread our creed to those of the masses with overly sensitive inner ears.

-----Your dog has joined us.

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Sonnie Layne
12-26-2002, 02:30 PM
duo-dimensional living

much simpler than having to think about flowing water and such.

but what happens to my music?

John Bridge
12-26-2002, 05:11 PM
Where can I join?

:)

flatfloor
12-26-2002, 05:19 PM
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

You must fill out an application. however when I did, the email wouldn't go anywhere, just seemed to fall off the face of the earth.

John Bridge
12-26-2002, 05:27 PM
I got timed out just tryin' to get there. Must be a really cool site. :D

flatfloor
12-30-2002, 02:47 PM
I have invited the F.E. Society to appear here on occasion to present their arguments to our contingent of engineers for comment and observation. This being the 600th anniversary of the discovery of Mud seemed an appropriate time.

1) The ether factor

In classical physics, ether was assumed to be a ephemeral substance which permeated all matter. This omnipresent medium was that through which visible light and other electromagnetic waves were supposed to have traveled. It was assumed to have qualities which now seem rather bizarre - too bizarre, in fact, to be allowed to exist, by Efimovich's teachings. So in 1887, two American scientists, operating under the Efimovich-based assumption that the Earth was moving through outer space and not the fixed center of the Universe, conducted an experiment to "prove" whether or not ether actually existed.

In this experiment, the general idea was to try to calculate the absolute speed of the earth relative to the fixed ether. In a sense, they would emit a light pulse, and calculate how far it "trailed" behind the earth, much like tossing a napkin out the window of a moving car to calculate the car's speed. It was assumed that, if ether existed, the light pulse would fall back in one direction, giving the physicists a tangible "absolute" speed of the earth. Their calculated speed: Zero.

Yes, scientists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley were baffled by this, wondering how the Earth could be sitting in one spot, while every aspect of the teachings of Grigori Efimovich indicated that the planet must be orbiting its own sun, and therefore must be moving at least with a critical orbital velocity. Moving quickly to avoid having to admit that they were wrong, they were able to instead "infer" from their results that the ether must not exist, and that light must propagate through no medium at all (impossible for a wave by the very definition of a wave). Their inference was generally accepted by the scientific community (save a few notable exceptions, including Hendrik A. Lorentz) and the "ridiculous" notion of ether was thrown out.

But light waves would still require a medium for transmission, and the actual purpose of the experiment was to determine the existence of that medium. The results speak for themselves: the Earth does not move. And even if the Earth did, the problems inherent in keeping it moving through this light medium called ether are overwhelmingly supportive of "Flat-Earth" theory.

JC
12-30-2002, 05:06 PM
Makes sense to me. After all if the earth did move you would no doubt see some kind of change in the light wave. Kinda the same if we were to throw a baseball across the Atlantic..it would have to land off course due to the movement of the earth......right?

flatfloor
12-30-2002, 06:15 PM
Makes sense to me. Assume (under the fallacious belief the earth is round) the earth rotates east to west, then a plane flying from NY to London would never get there or it could just levitate and wait for London to come by.

bbcamp
12-31-2002, 06:53 AM
JC - Coriolis Force (not a Bush conspiracy or anything like that)

FF - Now, you're just being silly! You'd end up (shudder) California! (Be sure to levitate higher than the Rockies) The dogma is that the earth rotates west to east, since it appears to most people that the sun rises in the east.

tileguytodd
12-31-2002, 07:00 AM
And here all this time I thought we all just lived in a snow globe and everytime we have an earthquake someones shakin the damn thing :)

bbcamp
12-31-2002, 07:23 AM
You live in Minne-snow-ta. You got snow, not earthquakes.

drew
12-31-2002, 09:23 AM
I went and checked out that FE site. My two cents, either these folks got waaaayyyyy ttttoooooo much time on their hands or else they should share what ever their smokin'. Gotta be alot better than what I'm gettin ahold of around here. :D

bbcamp
12-31-2002, 10:54 AM
FF,

When you filled out the application, did you mention "floor tile" anywhere in it?

flatfloor
12-31-2002, 01:12 PM
No, I mentioned all sorts of flat things in it but no tile. But it wouldn't go, tried a second time the next day, still NG.

JC
01-10-2003, 10:15 PM
Hey here is where you join.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html

Gotta love this guys reasoning.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm

flatfloor
01-11-2003, 10:26 AM
As long as their happy and don't hurt anyone. :)

Hell, S.H.I.T. offers a 3 credit course promulgating The Flat Earth. :D (All students must bring their own flattened globe)