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Happy Birthday, Malcolm! :birthdayparty:

Happy Birthday! :D :happybirthday:

No, I have not been to space, however I took a high altitude flight over the Pacific and the curvature of the Earth was clearly visible, and I spent a number of years in the Navy which included many hours on watch with binocular telescopes observing ships appearing from the top down as the...

That the Earth is an oblate spheroid is not merely a belief, it is an easily observable fact (I've seen it myself). Sizable groups already go against scientific consensus on vaccines, evolution and climate change...so why not this? You do have the right to deny this (or any other known facts you...

MC, you have stood steadfastly against nonsense...and I thank you for your support here...I was hoping for the community at large to jump on this crapola. :D If we just let nonsense fly, then we are no good as a community.

Are we really actually discussing whether the Earth is a heliocentric oblate spheroid vs. a magical flat disk? Can we really be discussing such nonsense? C'mon, I implore thee...fess up to thy trollery. :D It was bad enough when the community at large stood by and allowed a stupid definition of...

This has nothing to do whatsoever with me being an atheist. This has to do with my trust that the entire scientific community is not engaged in a conspiracy...nor that my own eyes betrayed me when I was a sailor in the U.S. Navy and I saw the curvature of the Earth's surface with my own eyes...

I'm going to be honest here...IMHO, belief in a flat Earth model takes about the same monumental denial of evidence as belief in a universe less than 10,000 years old, or belief that life was created all at once with pretty much the same diversity we see now. I'm not going to spend time arguing...

I kind of thought this might be the case (evaluation of the expression for large values of $n$), and I do appreciate your honesty here. If no one can provide an algebraic proof within the next couple of days, you'll get the 1500 CH cash. :D

Theism is something I reject on lack of evidence. I cannot say theism is wrong because there is no evidence either way, therefore I take the default position of rejecting the claim. However, a flat Earth model I can say is utterly wrong because of all the evidence against it.

I hate when that happens. :(

Hello and welcome to CH, Wilhemena! :wave:

Almost hot: Pressure 30.18 in Visibility 10.0 miles Clouds Scattered Clouds 6000 ft Temperature 84.6 °F Heat Index 84 °F Dew Point 57 °F Humidity 39% Rainfall 0.00 in

yeah...no. :BananaMon:

Yes, it does actually and quite satisfactorily I might add. Surely, you are tugging on legs here. O.o

Yes, that's correct! :thumbsup: Can you show your derivation?

Hello, Ruth! I like the new username color and badge! :thumbsup:

Sometimes "Angry Dad" is the only thing that works. My dad could shut us up just by narrowing his eyes...we knew it was time to behave then. :D

I find that of the OTC pain relievers, ibuprofen (found in Motrin and Advil) is the most effective for me. Acetaminophen and aspirin will also work for me, but not quite as well. :D