So... umm... let's talk for a second. I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish here, but it certainly isn't educating the public with anything. Definitely not anything useful at the very least.
So first off you start by stating something that is completely incorrect, "the earth is not round". You repeat this a couple times throughout the post and the evidence that you thought you included to support this is I guess the 20km elevation difference? Though I'm again unsure what you aim to prove here as being "round" is not synonymous with being a "sphere" in that simply being round doesn't mean that it has to be "perfectly" round, hence the implications of the term "perfectly round". So anyway, you falsely claim that the earth is not round throughout the post only to abandon this in your conclusion where you state both that it is not perfectly round (which is correct) and that it is not round at all (which is incorrect).
Then there's the spherical problem you present. I'll start this by pointing out that you specifically mention both the earth not being spherical and not being a sphere, again (edit: oops no you don't but this applies to the round thing and also later in rebuttal). You seem to not realize that these two things are completely different claims, as you use them interchangeably (edit: you don't but you do this with the roundness). Note that spherical simply means relating to a sphere or having a shape approximate to that of a sphere and that a sphere is simply a perfectly round object. So right off the bat, no, the earth is obviously not a sphere as it has elevation fluctuations and multiple different diameters. Although I'm not really sure who disputes this fact, you are technically right about this part.
But you claim that the earth is not spherical as well (edit: oops no you don't but let's point this out anyway because the earth is spherical and there's really no reason to prove to people that it is not a sphere when nobody really tries to claim this), and this is not true. The evidence you use to support this is that the earth has a "massive" (edit: "significant") difference between multiple diameters. In order to be considered spherical, it would only need to be similar or close to a perfectly round object. The difference between the diameters that you gave is only .3% the length of the shortest one. If you're trying to argue (edit: you aren't) that .3% is a "massive" (edit: "significant") enough difference to knock it out of consideration for being approximately a sphere (spherical), I'm afraid you don't have much of an argument.
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You trying to be f*cking Sherlock or something? You realise that the earth [i]isn't[/i] a sphere - it's close but no dice... Think of it more like an egg shape. and then try to think of what could possibly hatch from it. [spoiler]you don't have to be a dick about it... Plus the universe is a strange f*cking place. It's been deemed reasonable and viable that there is likely a planet in the shape of a doughnut somewhere... [/spoiler] [spoiler]at least it's not another stupid flat earth society thing...[/spoiler]
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Yeah. I'm not sure what the point of your response is either, I was just saying that making a post that tries way too hard to prove something like the earth is not a sphere is like making a 3 paragraph post proving to people that 2+2=4. Nobody really disputes this so it doesn't need to be proven. The rest of my reply is just correcting errors in his post, I'm not sure what the problem is.
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Edited by QueCyraCyra: 8/24/2016 1:07:42 AMWell it's 2 am so I don't have to be perfectly reasonable. So I... Shit I can't actually do the physical motion through technology... Uhh... Ok just imagine I blew a raspberry at you cuz being sensible and "proper" is boring... [spoiler]and wow, paragraph splitting punctuation isn't strong with you huh? Even with your huge post being split into sections it's too much in one go... [/spoiler]
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Edited by ttv/RitzyCheese: 8/24/2016 1:19:50 AMOkay [spoiler]oh boy... another person on here who apparently doesn't have the technical capabilities to read an actual response instead of twitter sized 1-2 sentence "paragraphs". [/spoiler]
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Yes, because I said it was stupid having several paragraphs about 15 lines long with little to no punctuation means that anything over a couple of sentences is too much for me! /s I mean ffs, did you even think about whether or not I might be dyslexic before typing that? Dick... A huge wall of text with little to no punctuation is gonna be hard for anyone to read. It's something taught in basic literacy from year 3! And if you're trying to make a point about something and how you're obviously in the right then perhaps it's not the best idea to have incredibly long paragraphs. It immediately cuts off your rebuttal simply because your point is lost in the gigantic stone slab that is your wall!
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Edited by ttv/RitzyCheese: 8/24/2016 1:49:08 AMYou're still trying to say that the information contained within my rebuttal is not worth reading to most people simply because I used long sentences with complex structures. If someone is unwilling or unable to read my reply, they obviously don't need the information contained within it. And you're saying that there was barely any punctuation in it. There is a lot of punctuation that separates the thoughts and whole sentences. It probably gets confusing with all of the edits at the end, but they're in parentheses and don't need to be factored in until after its already been read. Taking out all of the edits, I don't see what you mean.
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My point... Is forgotten, I can't be bothered with this anymore... It's a different day, I went to bed. Your point is however valid, if you say so.
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I feel the exact same way at the moment, I think.
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I'm not even sure what is what right now...
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Oh yeah? Nearly there, and I definitely didn't consume any drugs recently
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And nor did I... Hmmm... Aliens?
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Oh no! You're semantical argument has completely refuted my mathematical one! Whatever shall I do!
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Riiight... that would probably be applicable if you made a mathematical argument. Instead you used some statistics to "back up" your improper word use and to "prove" something that nobody was refuting, the fact that the earth is not a sphere.
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I never improperly used any words, you just can't find the comedic value in them.
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Edited by ttv/RitzyCheese: 8/24/2016 2:29:19 AMThere was supposed to be comedic value in them..? You're post came off as a pissy complaint, like one too many people had said the earth was a sphere that day [spoiler]you know, it seems much less serious rereading it, especially towards the beginning and end[/spoiler] [spoiler]plus, you used the professor so I must assume you're not dumb[/spoiler]