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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.

Great! Another permanent artifact in this thread because no one seems willing to allow editing on this thread. I'm going to give it one more week. If the problem hasn't been rectified, I'll start a new thread on the topic and just stop posting in this thread altogether.

I've made the arguments and you know it. And calling a lie a lie works when its true. You are wrong - period. I've been interested in science my entire life, astronomy and physics in particular. I'm not a professional scientists nor am I even an expert in any scientific field but I know enough...

The guy makes a lot of arguments. Don't respond to them all. Frankly, there shouldn't even be a response other than, "Oh! Okay. Fine then, the Earth isn't flat." I mean, the material he presents is more than merely arguments. He proves the point. I wasn't kidding about him pounding the idea that...

That's a crock. Why bother posting arguments that you don't believe are persuasive? Oh! That's an idiotic argument for my side of the debate but it's an argument nonetheless so lets post it anyway! Yeah right! Sounds great to me. I'll take just about anything that is direct, substantive and...

Pick one. It'll be the first one your responded to that I can think of.

So what? There you go making the same fallacious argument that I've already pointed out as being fallacious. I've pointed it out again - now its your turn to repeat the argument a third time at which time I'll be angry and you'll still be unresponsive and unconvinced. Abject, flat out stupidity...

I've posted these videos before but due to the avalanche of flat earth craziness that has been posted here lately, I'm posting them again. The guy in the videos is not nice to flat-earthers. In fact, he's down right insulting but he does actually make the arguments and he makes them extremely...