Ha. By level it would mean the barrel’s end would be tangent to the planet.
How would you explain how a bowling ball will fall meet the earth quicker than a feather? :student:
Both actually accelerate at the same rate until they hit “terminal velocity”. That’s the speed the air resistance can support it’s weight. For the feather that’s almost instantly. For the bowling ball, it’s going to take a while. This is how sky divers control their speed by spreading their arm and legs vs a head-first dive. :student:
And just exactly why, pray tell, did you feel the need to blockquote the entire contents of the longest single post in the history of chat rooms???
More importantly, could you go back & delete it, since we all already have the original, right in front of us? Please?
Here is a question not often asked, why is the earth flat? What caused it to become a different shape then all the other planets?
Yea I’d like to see their answer to that. Maybe it involves God’s mood.
The whole flat-earth thing seems like a total failure to grasp the size of earth. The larger a sphere is, the more flat it feels from a microscopic prospective.
I don’t know, but I’m really thinking about using it in my signature line.
I'm working on a group buy once more. 
Hey, it's for aluminum foil hats with dissipative coatings on the inside. 
I think we can get them at a good price and possibly, if we hit the minimum, we can get antenna with them! 
Unfortunately, it's one size fits all, so I don't know how it will work with all the Big Heads, but maybe we can get a consensus of the average head size and testing on how much aluminum foil will expand over big heads. Possibly a lubricant of some type... well, scratch that. I got some awful images coming into my brain from that one.
There are no other planets and if there were, they would be flat. It’s all just a conspiracy ever since Muybridge made the fist moving picture, developed for government use, it’s been a big propaganda agenda involving millions of minions in keeping the herd under control. It’s all mind control and nothing really matters anyhow, since we are dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.
That’s how it supposed to work. But just now I learned that “when I jump off a high-dive, according to these understandings above, I should feel nothing. I’m just suspended there until the earth (water) comes up and hits me.”
“When we’re falling towards the ground, we are NOT accelerating.” 
Because it isn’t. Isn’t that obvious?
The earth is flat but not square, it is a cirkel. So are all the other planets.
It’s just the planets face’s you with there flat side, so when you would move ‘around’ a planet it turns with you so there flat side will face you all the time.
The worst thing, for me is, knowing that there are members here who are reading this stuff and agreeing. Happy to have found others with their same beliefs.
I think we have a flat-earther in our midst. Because how could the earth accelerate toward two people on opposite sides at the same time?
The problem is you are trusting ‘feel’ The reason you don’t ‘feel’ your acceleration is because it acts on every atom of your body at the same time, not just an external shove.
Of course in more advanced physics we can use other frames of reference than the earth, but I think we better not go there.
Your very good at this!
I can think of many politicians who should hire you for a robust 6 figure salary!
Maybe this explanation will help you feel it…
Pretend you are in the middle of outer space. No planets. You feel weightless… You feel nothing.
I shove you, you feel it while I am touching you.
Now you are in the same situation but you are moving. You still feel weightless. You don’t know you are moving except you see a planet getting closer. You still feel weightless.
Now you are getting closer. You are not headed straight for the planet, you are going to miss it. But wait… your path is getting bent by the planet’s gravity. But you still feel nothing.
Your path is so curved you have gone into orbit. Still you feel nothing.
I shove you toward the planet, and you feel that.
But again, you feel nothing as your orbit spirals in.
If there was no atmosphere you would feel nothing until the moment of impact.
Dont worry, I know the truth. 
(but which one :smiling_imp: :innocent: )
There is no opposite side of this one, cause you’ll fall away from the earth / the earth will accelerate away from you 
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Thank god, it would give me a massive headache, however I have an interest in this kind of science. :student:
Dark side? Never heard of it before…
On a more seriously note, the fun part of this thread is that we (or at least me) dont know who is serious or not. 
I too try to keep an open mind, but I just cant understand how people think that the earth is actually flat. It is proven multiple times that it’s round (how else could you get around the world in 80 days? O wait that was a movie and movies don’t tell the truth, do they?)
Even the Greeks recognized the world was round.
How are you going to measure you’re acceleration, hmm? By looking at other planets as they fly by and (knowing the distance between them of course) using a stop watch? Yell when you get to your destination?
The moon should be drawing a standing wave that circles the globe every day. Now wouldn’t that be a long a$$’d surf party.
Level is a relative notion and is only relatively consistent in an area that is small relative to the size of whatever globe you’re on.
Personally I think it’s all magic. Modern science is all a bunch of mumbo jumbo models that attempt but don’t quite succeed in explaining the world we live in. Most of the time the world behaves as it should based on those models but the world isn’t the model. We’re faking it real hard and fast.
Where are my ’shrooms?
Greeks knew it was a sphere, not sure how the FAS explained Magellan. Probably say he faked it.
Jeez, I thought “Terminal Velocity” was the speed you needed to run at an airport to not miss your connecting flight :person_facepalming:
Magellan didn’t sail around the globe, the other side of the flat earth is trans-dimensional so that when you reach the edge you instantly reappear on the opposite edge. Him and his crew probably ate a lot of mushrooms which are supposed to help you better understand things like this
This thread is lots of fun but only if you want it to be. As Thomas Dolby said on his 1984 album “The Flat Earth”, “the Earth can be any shape you want it.”
Phil
I played a lot of NES video games that did the same thing. Those video game physics are based on reality!
This!
I’m giving it my best shot!