I once flew along the equator at 1,000 miles per hour for 24 hours and arrived back where I began.

Thus, I came to the only logical conclusion I could - the Earth is not only flat, but it and it's atmosphere rotates like a record, and I was hovering over it like the needle.

No?

Prove me wrong!

(ps, those of you who actually know me know this is merely an attempt to inject a little humor into this forum...)

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Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that.

I am human. Fully human.

I'm don't believe you are wrong that you came to the only logical conclusion you could.

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There is no commercial aircraft in existance that can fly at 1000 mph for 24 hours without refuelling, therefore a journey in a standard plane must take longer than 24 hours. The only way you could have done this is in one of the black-ops aircraft from Area 51, which have been reverse engineered from the captured alien saucer from Roswell. Since this craft was an interstellar shuttle piloted by aliens from another star, on a mission to stop our nuclear tests from disturbing the balance of the universe but shot down by the Illuminati with the death ray built by Nikola Tesla, you are clearly a government dis-info agent who knows the Earth is not only round but also hollow and filled with a secret race of Masonic illuminati and their Nazi designed Hubenau craft. We science minded folks can see through your simple plan.

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Those who doubt should consult this thread!!
Flat Earth Proof

Those who need further proof, see here:-
Flat Earth Proof

Those who agree, see this:-
Flat Earth Proof


(only 634 more of these, and I can change my name to David!)

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The links go to three parallel dimensions where the inhabitants are as bright as the are here... I don’t see much hope for the universe.

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You forgot to tell us to enter "death squad" into some search engine.

I mean that is certainly relevant to everything.

First assumption: You look straigt forward without turning your head
Second assumption: Everything you see at some distance is approaching you (the opposite option works as as well)
Third assumption: Your viewing angle is only 0.001°, i.e., you can only see objects which lie straight ahead of you (on the horizon)
Conclusion: These objects (on the horizon) will disappear to the left, others will enter from the right. No distant object on your line of sight will ever pass underneath your feet (or your head, if you´re flying upside down).

Indeed I did (doh! No HB club for me- I admitted i was wrong!)

anyhoo, check out their crucial 2nd album "Death Squad and the Holograms of Collapsible Doom" on the Depleted Uranium label rawk!

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Round and round we go...

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Playing the LP record of "journey to the centre of the earth" describes the path taken on the earth towards the centre very nicely. And it shows we're not being very efficient in choosing the path .

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death ray built by Nikola Tesla,




WOW!!! can you get these mailorder...

Heh, I was just listening to it this morning, I like better the part when they come out of Mount Etna and then Wakeman & the Orchestra play a few bars of Griegg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"

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If that's proof of a flat Earth like a record, then why do they keep showing a spinning globe. HOAX, HOAX...

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Next record to be played: Thomas Dolby's "the flat earth"

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To the regular visitor of internet bulletin boards it is clear that it's an excellent idea your parents get to choose your real name.

But there's that guy that did the thing, and the thing that does that one thing, and these guys that did that other thing, and....

Love it!

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Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

so, how does it work if you want to go from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere? do you just go "around" the edge to the "bottom" of the earth?
and what if you just stand on the "edge"?

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Well, didn't you pass over South America, then the Atlantic ocean, then Africa, then Asia, then the Pacific ocean, then back to South America?

I mean if you "hovered" for 24 hours you were in a helicopter and the scenery down below wouldn't change. You could have hovered at 5 feet off the ground and not seen any change of scenery.

So that's why my vinyls skip...

You have not presented sufficient information to prove or disprove your case. Your description of the flight could be accounted for with any type of surface on which you could draw a circle for the equator. You could be moving in a circle over the surface, or the surface could be rotating under you as you hover. The appearance from your aircraft would be the same regardless. More different types of observations are needed to choose among all of the possibilities.