People leapt out of the way to avoid being knocked off their feet. A moment later he hurled himself from his chair and, still laughing thunderously, rolled over and over on the floor. The bloody fool is going to fracture his skull, I said to myself. Not only his throat and lungs but his entire body was laughing. THE first time that I saw Leo Ferrari he was pounding his head against a stack of bricks. Ferrari finished his manuscript called “The Earth Is Flat : An Exposé of the Globularist Hoax” which now resides in the archives of St. The Flat Earth Society of Canada, of which Nowlan and Ferrari were founding members, fizzled out in the mid-80‘s but not before Dr. What propels the Earth? If the is Earth accelerating upwards against my feet but I am not accelerating upwards away from it then I (and everyone/thing else on Earth) would represent a counter-force that should slow us down over time.This essay by the important Canadian poet, Alden Nowlan, is from his 1978 collection of essays entitled Double Exposure. This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity. The earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). How do ships and planes navigate if their maps and instruments are designed for a spherical Earth? How do satellites stay in orbit if their navigational computers assume a big, massive ball underneath them? How does GPS work when it's ultra-precise calculations are based on a sphere? Why is the mast of a ship the first part to appear over the horizon? Why do my friends in Europe tell me (via instant message) that it's nighttime when the sun is clearly overhead? Must have tools and links for /r/atheism usersĬommunity submitted images used by r/atheism r/atheism IRC channel r/atheism Discord Server FiltersĬlick the squares below to filter /r/atheism to specific topics or submission types Recommended: Reading, Kids Reading, Viewing, and Listening. Check our FAQ and WIKI Are you planning to: Read before posting: Subreddit CommandmentsĤ - All Images must be in a Self/Text post.ħ - Follow reddit's rules. All topics related to atheism, agnosticism and secular living are welcome. Welcome to r/atheism, the web's largest atheist forum. Welcome to r/atheism, please read our Rules, & our FAQ! Thinking of telling your parents? Read this first.
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