The model of the universe that Galileo was forced to accept by the Catholic church included a spherical Earth. Nobody at that time believed that the Earth is flat. The belief in a flat earth is a recent phenomenon.

Let me change single word and see if that helps you find the answer your question...



Anyway, why go to all that trouble? Just buy them.

Funny. That image could just as easily be a statement about all of the ridiculous nonsense that is in the bible, seeing how the only thing not in the bible is the rational one.

For every person that believes that the earth is flat, there are thousands of people that don't. So, if you are going to advocate for FE, then like it or not you are going to have to address the same questions and arguments over and over again, regardless of how ridiculous they might seem.

If you are serious about trying to wake people up, then maybe you are going about it the wrong way. Readers of your posts will think that if you must resort to name-calling and spewing insults, then maybe you really don't have anything credible to say, and you are just some crazy brainwashed cult member.
 

When is International Men's Day?

I bought an item for $9.53, and I gave them a $20 bill. They accidently gave me a $100 bill in change rather than a $10 bill. What should I do? Should I be an honest person that wants the world to be a better place, or should I be a loser that takes advantage of other people whenever I can?

Merits have very little effect on your ability to participate and contribute to this site.

They are most important if you want to make money by posting spam here. In that case, you are paid more if your rank is higher.

I assume you are talking about "cloud" mining, which is where you pay a site to mine for you. Most of these are outright scams. The rest are not likely to make a profit.

Your best and most profitable option is to simply buy the bitcoins instead of investing in cloud mining.

Recent? Maybe for you.

The rule specifying the order of multiplication and addition is hundreds of years old.

Here is some information: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52582.html

coinmarketcap.com gives you the information you need. For example, here is the chart for ETH:


It shows you the price of ETH in terms of BTC in orange. You can hover over a date to get the exact price. For example, if you bought 1 ETH on Dec 8, 2017, it was worth 0.0282 BTC when you bought it. Today it is worth 0.0357 BTC. Since it is worth more BTC than when you bought it, you know that its price has gone up more (or dropped less) than BTC's price over that time period.

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I didn't bother reading the article or any of the comments because articles about twitter posts are stupid.

What can possibly be interesting about an article that says, "A wrote blah blah blah. Then B wrote blah blah blah. The A responded with blah blah blah. Then C wrote blah blah blah. ...? If I were really interested in the interaction, then I would just read twitter.

The answer to your question is complicated. There is no way to associate an address with a service just by the address itself. Addresses are effectively random.

However, addresses can sometimes be associated with services by analyzing the transactions that use them and analyzing how they are used in those transactions. Here is an example regarding blockchain.info:

When blockchain.info started out, each account was given a single address and that address was reused. In general, no other wallets did that. So, you could look at a transaction and deduce that it was a blockchain.info wallet if the change was sent back to the input address. Thankfully, that behavior is gone now that blockchain.info has moved to HD wallets.

As you stated, refraction is necessary in order to explain the values of the observed angles. If you omit refraction, then the predicted angles wouldn't match reality. I assume that the refraction is understood to be caused by the increasing density of the atmosphere as you get closer to the surface. It should be possible to compute the amount of refraction based on the densities of the atmosphere at different heights and see if that matches the observed refraction based on a flat earth model.

Another possible experiment would be to measure the angle of the sun at a very high altitude and compare it to the angle at a low altitude. If the angles don't match, it would be evidence for both refraction and a nearby sun. If the angles do match, it would be evidence against those ideas.

Has any of that been done and documented? If so, I would be interested in seeing it.

MITM scam is well-known by LocalBitcoins traders. I have seen it discussed, but I don't know where it might be documented.

Here is how it works:

1. The scammer tells a buyer that they will sell them bitcoins, and tells a seller that they want to buy bitcoins.
2. The seller tells the scammer to send money to bank account XYZ, and the scammer relays that informaton to the buyer.
4. The buyer sends the money to XYZ and the seller sends the bitcoins to the scammer.
5. The scammer disappears with the bitcoins, leaving the buyer and seller to argue over who should keep the money.

You have an interesting conundrum here. I watched the movie, Behind The Curve, which documented an experiment by some flat-earthers. They did an experiment with a laser gyroscope, which is based on the Sagnac Effect that you say proves that the Earth is motionless. However, in their experiment, the gyroscope showed that the Earth rotates once every 24 hours!

It's a good list, but I disagree with many of the crypto-dependent items.

• An ICO scam is just a Ponzi scheme, pump-and-dump, or outright theft. The fact that a cryptocurrency is involved doesn't really change anything.
• Blockchain dusting is not fraud or a crime. It is a privacy issue.
• Exchange manipulation can happen on any kind of exchange.
• A 51% attack is not fraud or a crime.

Here are some more:

The irreversibility of cryptocurrencies enables the basic fraud of not getting what you pay for.
There is also a kind of trading fraud called man-in-the-middle which is enabled by the irreversibility and anonymity of a cryptocurrency.
Any kind of fraud that can be done with cash can be done better with cryptocurrencies.

I don't think anyone would dispute the results of the M-M experiment itself, but I think your conclusion based on that experiment is debatable.

1. The experiment shows that the Earth is motionless with respect to what?
2. Is idea that the Earth is motionless the only possible explanation for the results of the experiment?

I apologize if this has already been suggested.

I don't read Meta very much, but when I do I notice that there are always several current ban appeal threads, as well as several threads with users asking why they were banned or their posts are deleted. Perhaps it would be helpful if there were a board focused specifically on actions by moderators and appeals by users. Moderators could post who was banned and why, and users could appeal their bans there and ask why posts are deleted.

A screen is not necessary, but a screen can be used to provide increased security in addition to a better user experience.