- 21 Jun 2020 16:21
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There you go again, typical Liberal, pretending to care about things you don't. I have suffered for my beliefs about the Earth's shape. I very much doubt you have. In fact in the last 24 hours I've been wrestling with my consciousness over this very subject.
Since I was an adolescent I've loved tile maps particular hex maps. Do you have any idea how much easier my life would be if allowed myself to believe in flat Earth. Mapping flat2 dimensional maps on to the surface of a sphere or even worse an oblate spheroid is inevitably messy. I have encoded the equator as (approx) 1% longer than the lines of longitude. And I have encoded the length of the other lines of latitude as proportion to their cosine. Now as you've told us many times I'm just a retard compared to your intelligence. You will no doubt have spotted my error. While we can certainly obtain the two dimensional coordinates of a longitudinal cross section of the spheroid a give latitude by multiplying the sin or cosine by the appropriate axis radius of the Elliptical cross section. We can not get the correct distances between the latitudes or their correct lengths by such simple maths.
Or to put it in layman's (and lay women's and lay non binary's) terms if you were to walk due north from the equator to the 1st parallel, the distance would be about 1% less than if you walked due North from the 89th parallel to the North Pole.
I'm a bit concerned that not all forum readers will be smart enough to recognise you're towering relative intelligence to me. So I have left in my mistake, so people can see just how stupid I am. What I've highlighted in red is not correct. The length of a line latitude can be determined by the simple formula of multiplying the cosine of the latitude by the major axis of the Ellipse. I've no doubt that you would have spotted that at first reading even if I hadn't highlighted it in red.
SpecialOlympian wrote:Everything you say is moronic and stupid and conspiratorial. Nobody on this forum respects you. Please, for the love of God, start thinking. About anything, just start thinking. I would legit respect you more if you put forth Flat Earth arguments so long as it was clear that you had actually thought about them.
Also I would not be surprised if you're already a Flat Earther.
There you go again, typical Liberal, pretending to care about things you don't. I have suffered for my beliefs about the Earth's shape. I very much doubt you have. In fact in the last 24 hours I've been wrestling with my consciousness over this very subject.
Since I was an adolescent I've loved tile maps particular hex maps. Do you have any idea how much easier my life would be if allowed myself to believe in flat Earth. Mapping flat2 dimensional maps on to the surface of a sphere or even worse an oblate spheroid is inevitably messy. I have encoded the equator as (approx) 1% longer than the lines of longitude. And I have encoded the length of the other lines of latitude as proportion to their cosine. Now as you've told us many times I'm just a retard compared to your intelligence. You will no doubt have spotted my error. While we can certainly obtain the two dimensional coordinates of a longitudinal cross section of the spheroid a give latitude by multiplying the sin or cosine by the appropriate axis radius of the Elliptical cross section. We can not get the correct distances between the latitudes or their correct lengths by such simple maths.
Or to put it in layman's (and lay women's and lay non binary's) terms if you were to walk due north from the equator to the 1st parallel, the distance would be about 1% less than if you walked due North from the 89th parallel to the North Pole.
I'm a bit concerned that not all forum readers will be smart enough to recognise you're towering relative intelligence to me. So I have left in my mistake, so people can see just how stupid I am. What I've highlighted in red is not correct. The length of a line latitude can be determined by the simple formula of multiplying the cosine of the latitude by the major axis of the Ellipse. I've no doubt that you would have spotted that at first reading even if I hadn't highlighted it in red.
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