Comments by "Phil Davenport" (@phildavenport4150) on "Professor Dave Explains" channel.

  1.  @sevenwildwolves  Ever heard of the word "meniscus"? Go look it up, then do a simple test to see it for yourself. Then delete your stupid fucking comment.
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  2. Exactly. Good grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and not knowing you're shit.
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  3.  @TenositSergeich  First they need to achieve escape velocity - from their mom's basement. Then go rob a 711 or three to fund their travels. Which they would waste subscribing to yet more FE charlatans and printing antivaxx and anti-5G leaflets for distribution while attending yet more moon landing denial conventions. sigh
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  4.  @MaryAnnNytowl  r/wooooosh.
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  5.  @rayopeongo  If you watch FE vids by Dubay and friends (not that I recommend it) you'll see that there is a lot of stuff being sold as a verbal package. This is faithfully parrotted by the followers of these shitvids, and can provide the same experience.
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  6. @Lily Games Nobody needs to watch your irrelevant commercial hijack vid. Piss off.
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  7.  @humidifier8914  And STILL we allow them to set the agenda. We try to educate them, they deny our efforts, we try again, they refuse to accept any of it.....and so on it goes. Sooner or later SOMEONE will set out the problem clearly, and refuse to play this silly "prove the globe" game that nobody wins. The Earth is a physical thing, with identifiable, measurable properties. Wanna claim it's flat? Fine, then go get your evidence and show us. We have plenty of photos of the globe Earth, none of which are acceptable to flattards. Demand to see THEIR photos of their flat Earth, the measurement of their Big Ice Wall, their "dome", etc. And refuse to play their silly games until they come back with refutable evidence. Until then we're all just pissing in the wind.
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  8.  @neon-kitty-7472  Watch Dave's vids. You'll find the reference.
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  9.  @Levi22942  Well, why not? It's a lot better explanation than anything these flat Earth morons can invent.
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  10.  @BJ-xm6bi  Really? Do you mean to suggest that asking for proof of your mythical ice wall perimeter holding in your oceans is not a thoughtful comment, or aimed at discovering what the flattard argument might be in support of it? No flat Earth without it, but no flattard has yet found this ice wall, or even wants to talk about it. All we seem to get is either personal abuse, crap about not being allowed to go to Antarctica to find out, or yet more failed attempts to disprove the globe reality (Show me the cuuuurve!).
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  11.  @captainramius790  Please stop regurgitating flattard shite - you CAN go to Antarctica if you want, but instead of finding out how, you hide behind that flattard crap. Go there. Have a good look for your big ice wall - all of it - and your dome, too, if you believe in that too. Nobody is stopping you. Why call yourself Captain Ramius if all you want to do is hide at home for fear that somebody might try to stop you? Chickenshit. Grow a spine.
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  12.  @holinesschurch1563  You only need one "proof" of a flat Earth: go find the ice wall perimeter holding in the oceans. Forget all the flattard attempts (all unsuccessful) to disprove the globe Earth because that is a separate exercise, and won't demonstrate the existence of a flat Earth. Just go find the ice wall perimeter. Nothing else will do it for you, or for any flattard.
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  13.  @joelexline9  There is no way that Dave would be interested in a debate because for one, Dubay must bring with him evidenceFOR his flat Earth. As he has nothing beyond his moronic "prove the globe" game there can be no debate. But I'll just bet you don't follow that, do you? Dumbass flattard.
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  14.  @timg2727  He must be well aware that he isn't actually engaging in any meaningful debate, which requires all parties to present evidence for their assertions. Simply denying the evidence presented by your opponent, and presenting none of your own, does not a debate make. In fact, the best he is able to elicit from the Globebuster morons is ad hominem and condescension. There is not a shred of substance to any of their assertions.
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  15. Teachers wrestle with this issue. Seeing blank or contorted faces during or after an explanation of some phenomenon or math calculation is a challenging situation. Students in a classroom are usually not homogeneous with respect to intellect and some are bound not to catch on immediately, some not ever. Having a plan to manage this without crucifying the poor nonlearner, or causing a large hiatus in the experience of those who do understand as it comes to them (some even before you get there), is something that plagues teachers. Professor Dave had gone well beyond the acceptable limits of a classroom dilemma as he was, in effect, calling out those charlatans who professed to knowledge of the topic that they patently did not have, and would not admit (to say nothing of their ad hominem and sly asides). They got what they deserved.
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  16.  @felixluebkenn  Why not transfer to Flattard Uni instead? Plenty places available, no entry requirements other than a frontal lobotomy.
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  17.  @mathiasrryba  Behe and folk like him get plenty of followers as they have no need of scientific method or evidence. It's all about sounding convincing and denigrating the opposition. You might also appreciate Dave's efforts in debunking flat Earther charlatans.
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  18.  @peterdalmationcro4217  Gee, maybe you'd like to say something about his mom as well.
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  19. Well, don't watch flat Earth vids either as flattards are of a similar ilk - all bluster and invented bullshit. If you're curious, try to watch some of Eric Dubay's "200 proofs" that Earth is not a globe. Not a shred of evidence FOR his flat Earth fantasy, mind you, but that seems not to bother his disciples at all.
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  20.  @therealzilch  The dumbasses can't even agree on what form the moon takes, how far away it is, what its proper motion is, or even whether its brightness is albedo or generated from within. That's what happens when dumbasses invent shit to support other shit they made up. Sad, really.
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  21.  @tezlatower2362  So, no answers to the 10 questions then? Got it.
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  22.  @jiml8637  Playing that moronic "prove the globe" game does nothing to show that the Earth is flat. The only thing that will do it for you is a Big Ice Wall. Show us your solid evidence for it or please go someplace else.
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  23.  @charlessands6933  Just one of life's imponderables. We can try to go further and further back in time, using science as our tool, and just maybe we can get behind the creation of this universe. Or we can bale out early and simply create "God" as the cogito ergo sum of our endeavors, refusing to accept any other form of inquiry. In many ways it's what is attractive about science. The final answer is never in, given our current levels of competence and tools of inquiry. Will we ever get behind the veil of the Big Bang? Who knows, but if we do it will be a long way down the road for us, and we may have to evolve our conceptual skills to apprehend the knowledge.
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  24.  @DetDoc  The best thing you can do for yourself is stop watching all those FE shitvids that have you convinced that the Earth is not a globe. And all the other shite they come up with to keep you sucked in. None of it makes any sense, and all it does is keep you confused and trying to justify it with pointless and inaccurate mental gymnastics. Just stay with conventional physics and math. These things will give you the best understanding of the phenomena that seem to cause you the most confusion.
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  25.  @thomasmaughan4798  Again with the atheists. Do you have anything positive to offer, not including your implied and cloying religion?
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  26. Simple denial.
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  27.  @Bahiti-wv7yh  Shouldn't have called them fairies then, should you? They're savage buggers, almost as bad as drop bears.
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  28.  @bigcriplup  Even better - walk South for 100 yards, turn and walk due West for 100 yards, then turn North and walk for 100 yards and presto! Back where you started from!
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  29. Too late, some idiot already used that line.
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  30.  @TheGargantuanLeviathan  These guys are saying pretty much the same thing and have educational vids for you to watch if you want to expand your knowledge of the various topics. Much as they might enjoy the experience of meeting each other, I'm not sure that a vid would add a lot to what they have already given us.
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  31.  @truthtrekker  It's time you retired from these vids. You offer nothing other than abuse and your obsession with the sun and death. And go back on the meds.
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  32.  @truthtrekker  Again with the demented ad hominem. You really should go back on the antipsychotics before posting.
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  33.  @iggysfriend4431  Their "explanations" all fail due to being either inconsistent with observations, or internally inconsistent - or being simply nonsense. Their misunderstanding and misuse of scientific words also invalidate their puny efforts.
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  34.  @paullambert8701  He's just the same elsewhere as well. If that's how he behaves to strangers without provocation, it's just possible that he has estranged himself from all of his erstwhile friends and family, and can only conduct his sad attacks on people on forums like this. Best not to encourage him by engaging with him.
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  35.  @whereswa11y  Wolfie is the standard reference for anybody interested in expanding their understanding of intercontinental flight plan construction. His didactic style is quite easy to follow. He is also right up there with NASA and Satan for flattards, none of whom understand a word he says, or want to listen to him.
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  36.  @5superhombre  The only value of correlation is to suggest an avenue or so for further research. Plenty of exploratory research has thrown up unexpected (or even suspected) correlations, both negative and positive, that has led to fruitful explication of hitherto unknown relationships between variables via experimentation. Factor analysis of complex data sets, for instance.
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  37.  @barnprogramtv  You and your flattard friends have only "researched" the arguments against the globe Earth. Do you know why there are no vids critiquing the flat Earth? I'll tell you why - because there is NOTHING provided by way of evidence FOR it that we can examine. For instance, when did any flattard go look for his big ice wall, measuring both its length and taking compass bearings to show the direction consistently followed? Never, that's when. All we get is shite about not being allowed to go to Antarctica to do this simple thing, a canard (look it up) sold wholesale to dimwits who passionately want it to be true. Just like that old chestnut about all NASA footage of Earth being CGI. And you wonder why flattards are regarded with such disdain?
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  38.  @marvinhesler321  Still waiting. Cat got your tongue? Bit short on evidence? Flattard dumbass.
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  39. Assuming he made it that far the first time. Seems vanishingly unlikely that he passed anything on the way thru.
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  40. DANG!!
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  41. Their beliefs are faith based, not evidence based. If you want to understand why they persist with their fantasies, you need to seek answers from the field of psychiatry rather than the world of science.
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  42.  @knezzo1646  Yes, interesting disjunction. Dollars and cents - metric. FPS for measurement for the layman. However, the scientific community is more than competent in CGS as it facilitates communication with the rest of the scientific community abroad.
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  43.  @flookd5516  Plenty of folk read the comments for just that purpose - to be educated further by people who have the competence to elucidate various aspects of the topic. It's actually quite helpful for the process that flattards keep making stupid claims because they often stir up people who can explain things well. The only people who don't gain anything from the whole thing are the poor, dumb flattards, who believe themselves to be "woke", and are therefore unable to benefit.
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  44.  lcyw20  It's what happens if you prod a wasps nest hard enough, and you have nothing to defend yourself with.
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  45. Religious cults work the same way. The FE priests have such a grip on their sheep that none are willing to entertain any ideas other than those sold to them by their priests, including the demonization of everybody not like them.
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  46.  @ArcticuKitsu  And you expect a sensible response from a flattard?
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  47.  @Liberty2357  Vulcan is made of rubber, as in car tires. Don't you know anything?
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  48. Flat Earth shit consists of a heap of unrelated statements that don't cohere in the slightest, and cannot survive any test on their own. Nobody could construct a meaningful model from it. So much bullshit has been invented to "account for" the many objections that only a retard would believe there to be something real and observable that derives from any of it.
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  49. One of the pilots knows a shortcut.
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  50. Just why anybody would choose to "debate" that bonehead is beyond me. Neither Dave nor anybody else would be able to get him to stay with what he actually knows. You lead your sheep with loud pronouncements and a bold waving of arms, not through calm, reasoned debate. And there are plenty of sheep out there wanting to be led.
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