Einstein errs, gravity pushes, math sucks

Dr. Michio Kaku; Neil Degrasse Tyson; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

O, Buddha, how does the universe work, and can I figure it out with math to make bombs?

"If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."

Fisheye lens in space finds flat earth

We sent a GoPro [camera with a fisheye lens] into SPACE | full footage

(Landon McCoy) May 14, 2018. PANAMA CITY BEACH. After a year of planning, designing, and preparing, the Engineering Club at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach, Florida, has finally released a high-altitude weather balloon to float up to space (or close enough).

It traveled a total of 90,000 feet (~28,000 meters) into earth's atmosphere, capturing stunning views of near-space with its onboard GoPro camera equipped with a fisheye lens to make sure we saw curvature across the plane of the flat earth.

With the help of a Spot Gen3 GPS tracker included in the payload, the recovered camera was found in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Wakulla County, Florida, a full 100 miles (160 km) from Gulf Coast State College, where we launched it.

Many people contributed their time to making this launch possible, so thanks to all the groups and people involved:

• The rangers of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. (Without them, there would be no footage!)
• Gulf Coast State College (Tony, Alan, and Brandon)
• The entire AHS Engineering Club: Joseph Bell (engineering and math teacher as well as head of the Engineering Club)

Notable time stamps

• 0:00:00 (launch)
• 1:50:00 (Panama City Beach, FL)
• 1:50:34 (St. Marks Wildlife Refuge + more)
• 1:50:58 (landmarks in GA, AL, and FL)
• 1:55:45 (balloon burst)
• 2:34:00 (landing)

The Engineering Club is planning on creating a full video, outlining the design process, set up, launch, and retrieval of the balloon (that isn't 2.5 hours long), so stay tuned for that.

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Flat earth? Who knew?

🚀 NOTES: 1) Due to the influx of comments asking about the fisheye lens or flat earth, let's address that here:

Yes, the Club knows it used a deceptive fisheye lens -- that causes the optical illusion of curvature -- instead of a regular flat lens. But the Club was not concerned with proving that earth isn't flat. If it's flat, it's flat. The Club can't help that. The camera sees what it sees. Yes, the Club put a distorting lens over what it sees, but that doesn't mean the Club was trying to prove that the earth is flat. The Club assumed it was curved and globular like nearly everyone says it is and like we all believe because of childhood indoctrination from having earth globes in all classrooms since childhood.

The Club just wanted a very wide view from 90,000 feet and figured a fisheye lens was the best way to go -- and to keep NASA and secret government agencies from taking the video down for showing the truth we aren't supposed to question, investigate, or know, considering we had never done anything like this before and already though that earth isn't flat. (But let's leave that debate for the comments section).

Side note: The Club actually planned on having two GoPro cameras capture the footage, one with a standard flat lens on one side and another with wide angle (fisheye lens) turned on the other side.

Because the Club had never done this before, someone accidentally let some helium leak out of the canister while inflating, so it prematurely ran out of helium before hitting the target lift.

In order to compensate, the Club had to reduce the total weight by removing one GoPro (the regular lens because that GoPro was heavier) and the 3D printed Tesla Roadster that was going to be sent up as well.

Even with these setbacks and kinks and inadvertently proving the earth flat, the Club still considered this launch very successful since its members were able to accurately predict where the camera would land to be recovered, got good footage back, hit the target altitude, and had a lot of fun in the process.

The Club is willing to ignore the evidence and still consider earth a globe instead of a flat plane just to avoid being ridiculed or questioned.

2) The "smudge" on the camera lens? Although it appears as though someone got fingerprints on the camera lens, the Club just let that slide after a year of planning. Wait, that's completely incorrect. After getting everything set up and ready for launch, the box tipped over due to a heavy wind, and the camera lens hit the concrete, permanently scratching it. It was a scratch. Nobody's fault.

The Club knew the lens was scratched before launch, but no one had time to find a new camera and replace it, due to the custom 3D printed mounts that were designed and printed specifically to the dimensions of each camera. However, the smudge really isn't that bad, and the Club is still extraordinarily happy with the illusory footage.

3) Yes, the Club knows that 90,000 feet (~28km) isn't technically "space" but just a little over a quarter of the way because the Karman line (the most agreed on boundary of "space") starts at 100 km straight up. But the line where space starts, if one ignores the Karman line, doesn't have an officially recognized starting point anyway. Technically, earth's atmosphere extends for thousands of miles into space.

Disregarding the Karman line, the balloon still reached an altitude that was above 99 percent of earth's atmosphere, at a temperature of -77°F and a pressure so low that blood would begin to boil at body temperature, so it was close enough to "space" for the sake of saying "space," which sounds a lot better than "a quarter of the way to space." 😉

• VIDEO: The Club sent "The Rock" to space

Let's do science instead of debating: Flat?

World History Official; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Zetetic Astronomy: Earth NOT a Globe

Let's read from Samuel Birley Rowbotham’s book Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe.

• Zetetic means "investigating, inquiring," proceeding by actual observations (experiments) rather than assumptions, as distinct from the sort of "science" we preach on earth, which is theoretic. We pretend to practice the former, but settle for the latter mocking others who disagree.

This old text advocates science over speculation. Let us proceed by empirical experiment to build a picture of truth or reality. Any theory of a globular (oblate spheroid) or flat (contoured) earth needs evidence. But no one is allowed to question the data, the "proof"? No one runs experiments? We're just expected to accept what the government says? We only hear from on high what NASA dictates and shows CGI evidence for? And when someone up there awakens to the fact that some lies are being, they'd better keep quiet or be fired. Whistleblowers will not be tolerated.

It could be different. Working together, remaining open, and gathering tangible data, we could quickly figure out this world, but this debate is not allowed. The question of the shape of the earth is not allowed by "scientists" themselves.



COMMENTARY

Buddhist mandala: map of the universe.

Someone somewhere is going through a lot of trouble to keep us in the dark and fearful of questioning the powers that be. "Oh no, we'll be ridiculed! We'll be called pointy heads for believing anything here is flat -- even what we can see with our own unassisted eyes."

Stop the video periodically to read the amazing series of memes gathered. It may not be possible at first sight to appreciate their import, but as one learns more about this serious subject, they are startlingly clear. It really is a joke how we have been lied to.

Is the earth flat? Probably not. Is the earth a globe (oblate spheroid) spinning around at 1,000 MPH with water clinging to it everywhere flat an undistorted? Certainly not. So what shape is it? What is this world? Let's investigate instead of believing lies or thinking we know it all already so that there's no need to question.
 

As for this terrible presenter who can neither speak the language nor speak at all, s/he explains: "i can't speak, i had speech disorder. so, i am sorry to use robot voice on the video. many people complain about this. but now, i had buy a better speech software with good voice. i also put the text on the video, so you can read them if you not comfortable with this voice. so, here we go!"

The First Time Machine (Discovery Channel)

Clip from the Discovery Channel documentary "The First Time Machine"

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High-Intensity Lasers that Curve
Researchers defy the laws of physics by making a laser beam bend

• (Scientific American, April 10, 2009)

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Researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson (U.A.) and the University of Central Florida in Orlando (U.C.F.) report in Science this week that they have found a way to bend a high-intensity pulsed laser beam, a breakthrough they are hoping will help them better understand how ultra-intense laser pulses travel through the air and find potential new uses for the technology.

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World's Largest Laser Ready to Fire

• WAtoday.com.au (March 31, 2009)

Artist's rendering shows a National Ignition Facility (NIF) target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. Photo: Lawrence Livermore Nationa Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy.

After more than a decade of work and $US3.5 billion ($AU5.2 billion), US engineers have completed the world's most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself.

The US Energy Department will announce today that it has officially certified the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, clearing the way for a series of experiments over the next year that eventually is hoped will mimic the heat and pressure found at the centre of the sun.

The facility, the size of a football field, comprises of 192 separate laser beams, each travelling 300m in a one-thousandth of a second to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser.

While the NIF laser is expected to be used for a wide range of high-energy and high-density physics experiments, its primary purpose is to help government physicists... More>>