The formula for earth curvature is not so different to formulas used for calculating arcs/chords in high school geometry.......which not only did we all do, but pretty everyone in the western world did. So to hear him make a claim like that is actually quite astounding.
How on earth (pun intended) did he pass ANY surveying course (regardless of level) without doing arc-to-chord corrections?
Flat Earth Society. .They have members "around" the?ÿ world. ?????ÿ
I think that's my favorite response.
My son, 13 yrs old, asked me where flat-earthers get it.
I told him it was more a psychological / emotional problem, than a problem of logic.
They have been betrayed so many times, that their trust/logic mechanism no longer is functioning properly.
Then, I ran him through several logic sequences, proving the earth is round, I told him that these peoples ties to confidence were damaged.
Too many rocks in their beans. So bad, they are no longer reasoning sequencially.
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And the wait begins to do a world change from US Survey ft to Int. Survey ft.........
So I watched a little of that spanish guy's video and it was awesome.?ÿ I've never followed what these people's actual argument is but it seems pretty hilarious.?ÿ The dude was like "Well, when you get to the edge of the disk in the area of Antarctica there's basically a natural boundary (wall of ice) that prevents humans from proceeding further, and so we just stopped trying to explore in that direction". ???????? He also cited the amount of paperwork needed to be filed and some sort of fuel ban as reasons for something as trivial as seeking to verify the shape of the planet.
The dude was like "Well, when you get to the edge of the disk in the area of Antarctica there's basically a natural boundary (wall of ice) that prevents humans from proceeding further, and so we just stopped trying to explore in that direction".?ÿ
Too much game of thrones.?ÿ Lol.
(Humor alert)
Flat earth.
It would make our coordinates so much simpler. Elevations too.
I think we should all vote FLAT EARTH!
If you don't vote flat earth, you are evil, and will be the downfall of coordinate systems everywhere. MOST surveyors can work in flat earth. No more theta angles. No more scale factors. Everything is GROUND. Let's bring this thing "Down to Earth". These high an mighty geodetic surveyors are evil. Pure evil. Evil incarnate. Why mess it all up?
All it takes a SIMPLE law, and a simple VOTE.
Come on, who is on board?
IF we can get surveyors EVERYWHERE to vote flat earth, it will solve a host of problems.....
Thank you,
Nate
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Nate of course we voted in flat earth...haven't you heard of state plane coordinates?
I've been told that they don't have 4th of July in England.?ÿ
Most of my surveys are done with the assumption that the earth is flat. All computations are done using plane trigonometry instead of spherical trigonometry.
I've decided to become a flat earth surveyor. All my elevations are 0.
Not if you're using GPS. How's that suppose to work with satellites when the earth is flat anyway. Do they just travel in a straight line off into infinity or do they just bounce back and forth like a game of pong.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@williwaw but then those spherical coordinates then are converted to plane coordinates before you can do anything with it.
Nothing preventing someone from working in spherical coordinates. SPC/UTM are optional.
I wonder if the Great Trigonometric Survey of India was entirely in spherical coordinates. ?ÿ