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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Since you're out of your depth on all of them, let's just start with the first one since you brought it up.
Go back to my comment which quoted the video and respond to it, please.
The vid about Coriolis? I gather that is fake too? It is most certainly NOT fake. Why would you think otherwise? Why can't you answer the other objections?
Could it be you can't google the right rational?


Originally posted by sonhouse
The vid about Coriolis? I gather that is fake too? It is most certainly NOT fake. Why would you think otherwise? Why can't you answer the other objections?
Could it be you can't google the right rational?
I posted a video on the Coriolis Effect from the standpoint of a long-range rifleman.
I plucked a comment of his out of the video.
I am asking you for your response to the comment of his which I quoted.

Stay focused, please.


Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Dude, you know pineapple is a fruit right?
Philistine.
Never had a pizza if you've never had Canadian bacon and pineapple.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH

"... when the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, it is actually [b]leaving the surface of the earth.

So as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, the earth is still rotating, and the bullet is not rotating with the surface of the earth, so the earth will actually rotate out from underneath the bullet while it is in flight."


Hmmm ...[text shortened]... the surface of the earth, so it is no longer rotating at the earth's speed.
Makes sense, right?[/b]
Yep. Applies to ballistics. The bullet will have a velocity equal to the exit velocity from
rifle PLUS the component of rotational speed tangential to earth's orbit. (Simplification)

But you cannot apply that to a plane because the plane is not a projectile like a
bullet. It is flying in the atmosphere - which is rotating (it is part of the earth).

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Yep. Applies to ballistics. The bullet will have a velocity equal to the exit velocity from
rifle PLUS the component of rotational speed tangential to earth's orbit. (Simplification)

But you cannot apply that to a plane because the plane is not a projectile like a
bullet. It is flying in the atmosphere - which is rotating (it is part of the earth).
Holy fecal matter.
Do you truly believe what you just typed?
Think on your sins.

EDIT: I am ashamed to think that otherwise reasonable people reason along such lines.
The bullet, he innit the atmosphere, but the airplane? He in it all the way.
He no escape the majic atmosphere, it stuck to earth by gravity.

Again, holy fecal matter stuck to the butt hairs of the Pope.
That's some scary shiitake mushrooms right there, mmhmm.


I don't know why, but something inside me is telling me the earth is flat.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Holy fecal matter.
Do you truly believe what you just typed?
Think on your sins.

EDIT: I am ashamed to think that otherwise reasonable people reason along such lines.
The bullet, he innit the atmosphere, but the airplane? He in it all the way.
He no escape the majic atmosphere, it stuck to earth by gravity.

Again, holy fecal matter stuck to the butt hairs of the Pope.
That's some scary shiitake mushrooms right there, mmhmm.
Exactly what do you not understand?

Think of a fly flying in a fast (200Km/h) train.
Now think of a bullet in that train.

See the difference?

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Originally posted by josephw
I don't know why, but something inside me is telling me the earth is flat.
Inside your head or another part of your anatomy?
Either way you need to see a doctor - psychiatrist or gastroenterologist.


Originally posted by wolfgang59
Inside your head or another part of your anatomy?
Either way you need to see a doctor - psychiatrist or gastroenterologist.
I have a doctor. His name is Jesus. 😉


Originally posted by wolfgang59
Exactly what do you not understand?

Think of a fly flying in a fast (200Km/h) train.
Now think of a bullet in that train.

See the difference?
I'll parse it out for you since you are stymied.
A bullet leaves a barrel of a gun and is shot out into... the atmosphere.
It started in the atmosphere and was shot into the atmosphere.
A plane barrels down the runway and lifts off into... the atmosphere.
It started off in the atmosphere and lifts off into the atmosphere.
Literally and unequivocally no difference whatsoever.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
I'll parse it out for you since you are stymied.
A bullet leaves a barrel of a gun and is shot out into... the atmosphere.
It started in the atmosphere and was shot into the atmosphere.
A plane barrels down the runway and lifts off into... the atmosphere.
It started off in the atmosphere and lifts off into the atmosphere.
Literally and unequivocally no difference whatsoever.
Then why are ballistics and aeronautics different disciplines?
You think a bullet flies?
You think a plane has a trajectory?
You think a plane could fly in a vacuum?

A bullet is almost exclusively governed by its velocity out of the barrel and gravity - no other discernible forces on it.
A plane (luckily for passengers) is subject to the Bernoulli Principle, turbulence, the air mass around it and gravity.


Originally posted by josephw
I don't know why, but something inside me is telling me the earth is flat.
Would you like to buy a windmill? I can do you a good deal.

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Would you like to buy a windmill? I can do you a good deal.
Hell ya! I could use a windmill. I think I should get one of those great big industrial sized ones. Power up the whole neighborhood. 😉


Originally posted by wolfgang59
Then why are ballistics and aeronautics different disciplines?
You think a bullet flies?
You think a plane has a trajectory?
You think a plane could fly in a vacuum?

A bullet is almost exclusively governed by its velocity out of the barrel and gravity - no other discernible forces on it.
A plane (luckily for passengers) is subject to the Bernoulli Principle, turbulence, the air mass around it and gravity.
Does a plane move through the atmosphere in time?
Then I'd say it has a trajectory.

How does a rocket move in space, exactly, with nothing to push against?

You claim "no other discernible forces" act on the bullet... did you forget the Coriolis Effect?

The fact remains, they're both in the atmosphere which supposedly moves with the earth through some mysterious means.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Does a plane move through the atmosphere in time?
Then I'd say it has a trajectory.

How does a rocket move in space, exactly, with nothing to push against?

You claim "no other discernible forces" act on the bullet... did you forget the Coriolis Effect?

The fact remains, they're both in the atmosphere which supposedly moves with the earth through some mysterious means.
"Mysterious means". That sounds mysterious. 😉

"How does a rocket move in space, exactly, with nothing to push against?"

Hey! I know this one. It doesn't. Amazing how they can do that slingshot thing.

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