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So happy to see a new thread started! I've been super busy the last few days but will be back to posting as soon as time allows. Clete

I think all of this can be basically responded to by simply pointing out that gravity pulls on the center of mass of any object, regardless of how many pieces there are or the relative masses of those pieces or how rigidly they are held together (so long as they are indeed held together). And...

Right Divider already said this but just for good measure... I understand what you're getting at but it just isn't correct, or at least you aren't saying it right. East and West are defined in a very specific way and going straight east or west, by definition, means that you are not getting...

If you go straight west from Chicago, you won't ever get even one inch closer to the equator than when you started the trip, (never mind Antarctica). And speaking of the equator, isn't that a line that goes all the way around the world without hitting Patrick's "ice wall"?

Saying it doesn't make it so, Patrick. There are literally thousands of things that circumnavigate the globe every couple of hours. Thousands! All day. Everyday. There have been hundreds of people travel all the way around the world over the last couple of centuries. Different people in...

Interesting question. It also pulls each piece of the satellite individually. The "pieces" aren't as rigidly held together but they do still act as a whole. In fact, the ocean is just one piece of the Earth. The ground is pulled on by the Moon just as the ocean is. The reason you notice it...

Patrick really ought not be permitted to deluge the thread in this manner. I can't even find one of the images that I want to respond to. He makes basically one sentence arguments but takes up 1000 times the bandwidth and almost entirely to no avail. He clearly isn't even expecting anyone to...

There is no such thing as "true magnetic north". That would be a contradiction in terms. North magnetic poles are attracted to south magnetic poles. The Earth is a giant magnet. It's SOUTH magnetic pole is near the geographic north pole. That's why the north poles of magnets in compasses...

Magnetic compasses do not "point" anywhere. We are the ones who put the pointers on the magnets. The magnets just do what they do. Magnets have no idea where the magnetic north pole is and they don't care because they have no mind. They are inanimate objects that do what physics requires them to...

Patrick, Do these little capsules of stupidity actually hold water with you or are you just posting them for fun or what? That one about being able to see Mercury and Venus literally made me laugh out loud! Especially since it's refutation was posted directly below it! Did you even notice that...

Notice how flat-earthers won't respond to an argument. It should tell you something. All they do it pile on more nonsense hoping that the arguments you've made against them will be forgotten.

You can stop with the photos and videos of the curvature of the Earth. The only people it convinces are people who are completely ignorant of how cameras work and the effects that different lenses have on the image. With the same camera and lens I can make a flat horizon look convex or concave...

You want to keep what?

Will do.

Predicting eclipses in ancient times had do to with pattern analysis and can be done with surprising accuracy but not "perfectly" as you suggest. Today, we know precisely when an eclipse will occur. With the correct data, we can predict it down to the second it will begin and end and can predict...

I typically do as well but sometimes not and even when I do, I reread the post again after I've posted it and I often find additional typos or think of better ways of saying something or will occasionally change my mind about wanting to say a particular thing and want to change or delete it...

I didn't ignore it, I said you were wrong! How is telling you that you're wrong on a specific point, ignoring the point? As I said, I've been deeply interested in these sorts of topic for my ENTIRE life, Dave. I wrote a paper in my Junior year of high school on quantum packets of time. Not a...

I've never gotten used to using the @ symbol when wanting to get someone's attention. It just never occurs to me to do it. I'll try harder. I did post something in the Ask Knight thread. I guess that's considered "old school" now. :) (as is the way I do smileys I guess!)

More permanent typos in my last post! Being able to edit posts would fix that!

Then make the agument Patrick. If the arguments he makes are so lame you ought to be able to refute them. Do it. You won't even try.