Derron wrote:Pay the fuck attention when updating your spreadsheets. I am moving to Central Oregon next year. The people in Central Oregon are moving to Idaho because those of us are moving to Central Oregon.
Wouldn't it work out easier if y'all just stayed where you were? Seems awfully complicated. :P
Not at all complicated. I have the chance to take a pile of money off the table selling my existing real estate to some yuppie Intel weenie who wants the farm life with in 25 minutes drive to the fab. The population growth here is making a formerly nice area to live full of millennial yuppies, illegal dope dealers, homeless criminals and beggars. My wife wants to cut back to half time work in the next year. I am tired of the yard work that 5 acres entails. My work can be done anywhere.
Sell existing property, putting at least 500k in the bank. Buy manufactured home, build large shop. Still have 250 in the bank Located in an area of conservative mind set, close to out door recreation and get away from 40 fucking inches of rain each fall and winter. Enjoy life on our terms from then on out. Living in a growing urban area where the government crams everybody into small geographical areas due to fucked up zoning is not how my retirement years are going to be spent.
Derron
Screw_Michigan wrote: Democrats are the REAL racists.
Derron wrote:Living in a growing urban area where the government crams everybody into small geographical areas due to fucked up zoning is not how my retirement years are going to be spent.
Me neither.
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Wags
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
Well that and the fact that with a flat earth model if there is a total eclipse at any point on earth, all of earth would have a total eclipse.
These simple facts can be proven by a third grader with a dinner plate, globe, tennis ball and flashlight. In fact these same items can show that a flat earth model is wrong by trying to create a sunset over part of earth.
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Softball Bat wrote:
I am the dumbest motherfucker ever to post on the board.
Softball Bat wrote:Sunsets are simple and obvious.
We are not moving.
And water is flat.
These are basics.
Oh well.
Research is fun.
Do your own.
... or not.
If the earth is flat then there is no way part of the earth can be dark while another part is light.
As you say do some research yourself. Place a dinner plate on a table. The plate represents the flat earth. Then take a flashlight and shine it at the dinner plate in a way that part of the plate is not receiving any light from the flashlight but other parts are. This is impossible to do. Even more so when the flashlight remains directly over the plate like the sun is over part of the earth at all times.
Can't wait for your explanation of your results of this.
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Moving Sale wrote:I really are a fucking POS.
Softball Bat wrote:
I am the dumbest motherfucker ever to post on the board.
Lefty wrote:As you say do some research yourself. Place a dinner plate on a table. The plate represents the flat earth. The. Take a flashlight and shine it at the dinner plate in a way that part of the plate is not receiving any light from the flashlight but other parts are. This is impossible to do. Even more so when the flashlight remains directly over the plate like the sun is over part of the earth at all times.
There are a number variables involved here, Lefty.
Such as how big the flashlight is in comparison to the plate -- and how far the flashlight is away from the plate.
Neither of those change the science. Perform the above with a pen light and a mag lite. The results are the same. You can't shine light on part of the plate and have another part in darkness. Then do the test again just holding the flashlight above the plate and then climb up on a ladder. The results will be the same.
This simple experiment shows sunsets and light and darkness can't exist on a flat disk. I know you have said the flat earth map isn't definitive, but that is the big problem. When actual events and facts don't work on one model, another is developed and tested. That either works or it doesn't. You and others can't come up with a model that fits observed sunlight times in different cities over the same period of time, flight times, lunar eclipses, etc, etc. Even if we add in multiple suns we can't get this to work on a flat earth model. Yet amazingly these same things fit perfectly on a globe.
Moving Sale wrote:I really are a fucking POS.
Softball Bat wrote:
I am the dumbest motherfucker ever to post on the board.
If you put a garbage can lid up close to that flashlight, the amount of the lid covered in light would be less than it would be if the lid were moved further away.
But you are wrong. Take the flashlight and garbage can lid into the closet or room you can darken completely. Shine the light on the lid and change the distance of the light from the lid. The brightness across the lid changes but the entire lid is visible meaning light is reaching all parts of the lid. (FYI use a dark colored plastic lid rather than a metal one to reduce reflection.)
As for the cone shape of the light from the flashlight that is due to the focused cone around the light. If you want to better replicate the sun take the lense and cone off of the flashlight and perform both the dinner plate and trash an lid tests. Without the lense and cone this just makes the flat earth model harder to explain. Either way the results are the same though.
Moving Sale wrote:I really are a fucking POS.
Softball Bat wrote:
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It's gonna rain here. I hope Goobs have better weather down in Mad-Town.
Mom said that hotels are charging a killing in Kentucky (4 X normal cost). She said that they will have the best view. She has a sign up for RV's if they want to camp out in the yard for $25 a night. She got two so far and she said no beer would be provided or consumed on property and don't scare the animals that made it their home in the brush and woods around the house.
Just finished the Eclipse party here at the office, they provided 150 eclipse glasses for viewing, pretty cool. Not cool enough for me to travel across the country, but cool none the less.
That was pretty freaking cool (this was my second eclipse).
Had to go a little south to get in the path of totality. Glad I'm a Northwest Oregon old-timer, and not a tourist. Got home in less than an hour. The news is showing aerial shots of I-5 heading north from Salem to Portland -- it's completely stopped for 50 miles.
I heard some people around here took the day off and went all the way down to Carbondale, IL to see the eclipse. Apparently it was rainy and cloudy most of the day.
Personally, I would never consider driving 500 miles for 2 minutes of entertainment unless it involved me, trev, and a cheap motel.
