I loved it. I watched the first one a couple weeks before I watched the new film and I think that helped a lot with making the plot of the film make sense. I think a lot of people went into seeing this film without watching the previous film which explains a lot of its box office issues. ß
It's a tough movie for the average movie goer who is used to Marvel, Dc comics movies, or typical Hollywood "flash bang" movies.(a lot of eye candy and very simple plots). |
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Is this even a question in 2017 ? Sure earth is flat
And why not, a very urgent issue Maybe all around us are deceiving and only the cosmonauts know the truth about the fact that the earth is still flat   Yes my friend, the Earth is still a flat and motionless plane. People weren't idiots for ten thousand years then suddenly woke up five hundred years ago no, they were put to sleep! FE is something that was advertised in the Middle Ages. It was taught to the people by the Roman Catholic Church, just to keep the people under control and ignorant. Halloween is a holiday that was actually started by the Roman Catholic Church and set in place at the end of October. Why October? Because the Reformation of the Church done by Martin Luther 500 years ago opened the eyes of the people to the dictatorial rule done by the Roman Catholic Church. And the date that Luther nailed his 95 statements against the Church to the door of the chapel in Wittenberg, was October 31. This year we a celebrating the 500th birthday of this beginning of the Reformation. And here these FE people are trying to take us back into ignorance with their FE garbage. Before the Roman Catholic Church the people knew that the earth was a globe. After the Roman Catholic dark ages the people have known that the earth is a globe. And now some jokers want to take us back into ignorance by starting the FE thing all over again. Do you think they are paid by the Roman Catholic Church?  Wow, 500 years ago. Someone was on NPR talking about the importance of this man (to the speaker), so your post caught my attention. "On 31 October 1517, Luther wrote to his bishop, Albrecht von Brandenburg, protesting the sale of indulgences. He enclosed in his letter a copy of his "Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences", which came to be known as the Ninety-five Theses. Hans Hillerbrand writes that Luther had no intention of confronting the church, but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices, and the tone of the writing is accordingly "searching, rather than doctrinaire."[32] Hillerbrand writes that there is nevertheless an undercurrent of challenge in several of the theses, particularly in Thesis 86, which asks: "Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?"[32]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#Start_of_the_Reformation |
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Blade Runner 2049 is definitely on the list
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British mission to giant A-68 berg approved "UK scientists will lead an international expedition to the huge new iceberg that recently calved in the Antarctic. A-68, which covers an area of almost 6,000 sq km, broke away in July. Researchers are keen to investigate the seafloor uncovered by the trillion-tonne block of ice. Previous such ventures have discovered new species. The British Antarctic Survey has won funding to visit the berg and its calving zone in February next year. It will use the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross." http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41553687I was hoping they would send Boaty McBoatface |
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If you haven't seen the movie, it might be better not to read this thread, it may contain spoilers.
I'm mixed on this movie...I even have some issues with the setup, but overall it's a great product from "Hollywood" which mostly produces movies aim at making a shit load of money - with as little depth as possible (fast and furious, mission impossible, etc).
I think it tries a little to hard to create some of the magic of the original Blade Runner movie and also there is not enough Harrison Ford to balance out the other actor(s).
What did you think of the new Blade Runner movie?
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It was probably easier to land on the moon "for real" than it was to create all the fake BS needed to fake it. Seems like there was a lot of CGI of globe earth before CGI was even invented. (if all the pictures of the earth from the 60s and 70s were fake it would look like Sci Fi and Godzilla movies of the 60s and 70s...i.e. twilight zone, king kong, etc) The video posted above was of Russian cosmonauts above the planet...seems like they are "in on it" also. Gravity warps space...maybe we can just say the earth is flat, but just being warped into a round, globe, sphere, planet by gravity...now everyone is right...we can all go home now - it's closing time  |
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Nerve
"Are you a player or watcher?"
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Seems like there is currently no flight near or over the south pole (there have been many in the past), that may be the cause of the "uptick" in flat earth conspiracy theories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_routeAntarctica "Few airlines fly between cities having a great circle route over Antarctica. Nonstop flights between South Africa and New Zealand, or between Perth, Australia and certain destinations in South America (including Buenos Aires and São Paulo), would overfly Antarctica, but no airline has scheduled such flights. Flights between Australia and South America and between Australia and South Africa pass near the Antarctic coastline. Depending on the winds, the Qantas flight QF 63 from Sydney to Johannesburg-O. R. Tambo sometimes flies over the Antarctic Circle to latitude 71 degrees as well and allowing views of the icecap.[19] Qantas also flies nonstop between Sydney and Santiago de Chile, the most southerly polar route. Depending on winds, this flight may reach 55 degrees south latitude, but other times 71 degrees, which is enough to cross the polar ice cap.[20][better source needed] The polar route across the remote southern Pacific Ocean between South America and Oceania was pioneered by Aerolineas Argentinas, which began service between Buenos Aires via Rio Gallegos to Auckland in the 1980s with a Boeing 747-200 aircraft. Aerolineas Argentinas later operated to Sydney, but ended its flights to New Zealand and Australia in 2014.[21] Because of ETOPS limitations on twin-engined aircraft—the maximum distance the aircraft can operate from an airport for emergency landings—only 4-engined aircraft such as the Boeing 747 or Airbus A340 can operate routes near Antarctica. Twin-engined aircraft must fly further north, closer to potential diversion airports; for example, when Virgin Australia operated a flight from Melbourne to Johannesburg on twin-engined Boeing 777 aircraft with a 180-minute ETOPS rating, the flight was two hours longer than a Qantas flight from Sydney to Johannesburg.[22] Air New Zealand flies nonstop between Auckland and Buenos Aires-Ezeiza; in 2015, government regulators approved its twin-engined Boeing 777-200ER aircraft that operate the route for a 330-minute ETOPS rating (i.e. its 777 aircraft can fly a maximum 330 minutes away from the nearest diversion airport), an increase from its previous 240-minute ETOPS rating.[23] LATAM Airlines began a nonstop flight between Santiago de Chile and Sydney via Auckland in April 2015 with twin-engined Boeing 787 aircraft with a 330-minute ETOPS rating.[24][25] LATAM has announced a nonstop flight between Santiago de Chile and Melbourne to begin in October 2017.[26][27]" |
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Maybe in some bookstore somewhere, "Terry Pratchett's Discworld" was placed in the history section and a few people picked it up thinking it was related to Earth's history...
NOT GOOD LATE NIGHT READING FOR THE IMPRESSIONABLE MIND:
"Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody or take inspiration from J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, and William Shakespeare, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, often using them for satirical parallels with current cultural, political, and scientific issues. The series is popular, with more than 80 million books sold in 37 languages."
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Where is the edge of the world according to flat-earthers? The answer changes, but it usually involves some impenetrable barrier at said edge that prevents people from going past or falling off. Global conspiracies apparently prevent people from investigating these boundaries yet no one has ever seen this huge barriers that go around the world. humans have circumnavigated the planet in planes and ships, and no one has fallen into space. Rather, when ships traveling large distances on the ocean do appear and disappear on the horizon, they do so either mast or hull-first, respectively. If the Earth was flat, and you had the right optics, you could watch a ship sail from New York to Africa without losing sight of it.
Hit up a friend in Australia and ask them what constellations they can see at night. Now tell them which ones pepper your patch of darkness. They won’t be the same. Because the Earth is a shape other than a flat disk, when looking into the night sky the Earth itself can block your view.
If the flat Earth theory were true, everyone should be able to see the same constellations all the time, as if we all were staring up from the same section of summer grass.
And wouldn't the sunset/sunrise be much different then it is now. Wouldn't everyone see the same sunset at almost the same time (or within a very close time frame) as opposed to spread out evenly like it be for a spinning globe. |
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Sunset question:
So we would all see the same sunset if....
Apart from ones elevation (on a mountain or something), wouldn't we all see the sunset at the same time (or about the same time, not staggered as we see it now, divided over a whole day) if the world was hmm "flat" ?
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The Orville - Episode 4 - "If the Stars Should Appear"
Is a non-direct snub to flat earthers and the like...
"The crew of the Orville encounter a society blinded by self-imposed ignorance"
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Today we live in a world of information - you turn on TV, radio, watch some websites and you know what's going on around the world, newest tech inventions etc. in a matter of minutes. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, for me it's too damn overwhelming. In the past months, I've applied the "information diet". I don't waste time anymore on 9gag tier websites or read any politics-related news at all. Now I'm only focused on websites that are about the topics that I care about and interested in. But still, there's too much of it all. There are more than 5 videos on YouTube daily, multiple news to read and even more topics to look into, research and learn. I feel so overwhelmed  How do you guys stay focused and going forward? Because I lost my track - I want to do so many things but end up doing nothing - that's the worst feeling  One thing is to try and not get sucked into the news too much (i.e. google news or the news on facebook), in general they seem to take a small story and blow it up like the world is going to end. Seems like they also promote headline catching stuff while missing the important stories because it does not bring in advertisers. So much click bait out there as well... |
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Flat Earth globe:  No disrespect to anyone here as everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I have a question - sorry for asking: How does the system or whoever it is that's hiding the fact that the earth is flat (if indeed it is) benefit from spreading this lie? What is the rest of (the ignorant (if)) society loosing because of this - because they are taught that the earth is a sphere? I think this is just a fun thread, or a Troll thread as someone else called it. The ends never support the means in all these conspiracy theories...whether it's flat earth or 9/11...some people say the Govt. need this to do this, etc. But in reality the Govt doesn't need a crazy event to do what it wants, it just does it...that's why all these conspiracies fall apart. You said it best [something like]: "How does the system or whoever it is that's hiding the fact that [something happened] benefits from spreading this lie? What is the rest of (the ignorant (if)) society loosing because of this - [place conspiracy here] ?" The logic flow of the conspiracy theories never add up... I also thought this was a troll thread but no, these few people are actually totally serious, they are not trolling, you can't be trolling for 400 pages in a row. Maybe they are going for the record...I think that the argument between USA and UK on "who invented the internet" holds that record. Or Maybe some of these Flat-Earthers (the big names) are doing this to get a free space flight when the the time comes...they are playing the "long game" for the free space flight... |
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