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I guess the feds finally decided to work on the .wins. Flat Earth is a planted conspiracy designed to discredit forums by association. It requires a highly impractical amount of resources for a tiny gain.
You think the feds are just now working on the dot wins and it’s FE they’re pushing
How do you look at these 50 pictures and conclude that they’re all fiction
Amazing to me
As a flat earther, you should agree with me that any and all pictures alone can be faked and shopped
Okay then look at the fucking napkin picture and have you ever seen a crumpled up piece of paper or napkin before?
Did gravity pull it flat against the ground/surface?
No?
Or have you ever witnessed smoke rising from a fire?
Why doesn’t gravity pull the smoke down to the ground?
Or why doesn’t the earths supposed 1600 kmh spin at the equator effect the smoke column?
It’s like a half Km per second
No pictures needed
Just use your brain
The material strength of the napkin in crumpled form is greater than the force of gravity. Same reason we don't pancake against the ground
Air has mass and exerts force. Smoke in a vaccume would indeed fall to the ground, but in the natural atmosphere, sufficieny light particles get carried by air currents. In the case of fire, the hotter and less dense air travels upward, carrying the smoke along with it while the cooler air fills in the space below.
Speed is relative. If you've ever travelled on a plane or train, you'd know that you can be travelling 100s of miles per hour without feeling anything. The air inside the cabin/train car has accelerated to the same speed as the vehicle and you, so there is no wind knocking you down.
The atmosphere is the same. Through influence from the spinning earth, the air has accelerated to be in equibrium with the earth, give or take based on weather patterns. Recall above that smoke is carried by the air.
Even in a vaccume, if one observed an object get launched from earth into the sky (for instance, a stomp rocket), the initial forces on the object pre-launch bring the object in equibrium with the earth's rotation, bringing the object to a seemingly standstill to an observer also standing on earth. At launch, the only additional forces on the object are those exerted by the launcher pointing away from earth, so as the object leaves earth, it still stays relatively inline with the ground because no forces have been exerted to counter the object's sideways motion.
I am genuinely curious, if not gravity, what to you call the force that pulls a ball to the ground when you let go of it, or keeps you from falling into the sky when you jump?