Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "Eric Dubay Sucks at Life (200 Flat Earth “Proofs” Debunked)" video.

@kaim0d0 When asking about things that only exist in your mind, you might want to use more than one word to describe them. You see, others operate in a different context known as reality.
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@kaim0d0 Your entire statement is filled with prejudice, including reality rejection. The core of it attempts to proscribe both what measurements show and how an observer would react. And that's not what happens in reality with either of those; your theory of mind appears to be crumbling along with your mental model of reality.
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I expect gyroscopes for such launches need to have their fibers potted to handle the vibrations. Do they use specific compounds with lower indices of refraction to maintain the fiber's reflectivity? In hindsight, probably a silly question. Those fibers should probably be sleeved, so only the inner sleeve would need optical properties, or a layer of lacquer like on coil wire. And such sleeved fibers are commonplace. But that's how questions tend to work; you try to compare the unfamiliar to the familiar.
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@stuartgray5877 If you're talking about rotation fluctuations, there certainly are such papers. here are some likely reasons the denialist won't submit any though: 1) can't find it himself, and prefers belligerence over admitting even that; 2) knows the fluctuations are out of scale (e.g. only show in long term measurement after subtracting the main signal); 3) merely suspects point 2 because conspiracy nutters tend to be wrong, and prefers belligerence over finding out; 4) just wants to waste everyone's time (making them a troll) All these options are a-hole moves, obviously. But can you find any better? Real fluctuations exist, inevitably caused by tidal forces but occasionally seismic events. There are some classic unrealistic expectations of science here. It's like expecting to learn all about the seasons from looking at a thermometer for a minute.
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@KyleHerrera106 "Composite images compiled using data from a myriad sensors"? If those sensors were light sensors aimed slightly differently, that would be a ten kilopixel photograph. Real world example: the Game Boy Camera with 128x128 uses about 1.6 myriad photosites. We get better quality with more readings, more precise sensors, and just plain more sensors. The device you're reading this on probably has megapixels, not mere kilopixels. It gets a bit more fun when you mix in more dimensions. A typical photograph only uses three wavelength filters and two angular dimensions, but I have one that mixes in two translation dimensions too. Some go to the full six for pose and one for time. Video footage typically mixes up the vertical angular dimension with time because of rolling shutters, in addition to the temporal dimension separating frames. There's so much fun stuff to learn, make and use!
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@stuartgray5877 Conspiracy theorists are self-driven. This is why one of the rules of flerf is that their sources contradict their claims when they do provide references; they either don't understand or ignore how. E.g. a simulation model using a stationary reference frame documents that only because it differs from reality, but flerfs insist it means the opposite. Usually they go for some key word and ignore all context.
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As observed by both Douglas Adams and Albert Einstein, yes. The universe has an astonishing capacity for idiots.
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Going off on a tangent, there's an element of the film Erik the Viking that feels somewhat related to flat earthers. Much of the film involves mythical adventures reaching places like Valhalla, but there's this one crew member who's a Christian and doesn't believe in that stuff, including the edge of the world. He mostly can't tell what all the fuss is about.
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Much as the phrase "double standards" is easy to reach for here, that's not what most of them have. They have fixity; there's no preset threshold for them to hear an argument, they already stopped listening at the first indication they didn't already agree.
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@HerrMau Terry Pratchett was indeed great, but I'd suggest reading some Douglas Adams and Yahtzee Croshaw.
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54:11 Yes, light can cool things. Not the large scale disorganized light that we see by, though; it has to be precisely coordinated to counter the existing kinetic energy. Laser cooling is fancy stuff. Admittedly I have only vague ideas of how it works, but I'd compare it to acoustic levitation.
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... conforming to that force is the definition of level.
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@GetMoGaming He did, it's one of those kooky ideas the "scientists" spout, while everyone else uses working magic.
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They all are.
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Gamergate is an interesting case of a conflict around a real world conspiracy, where you can tell people are trying to recruit you if they insist it had two sides.
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Ad nauseam. Literally.
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Calmly? Many of them outright prefer frenzies.
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Number 198 is a bit of a clue.
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We've measured it. There is a difference; everything including water weighs nearly 1% less at the equator than at either pole, and it causes the Earth to be 0.3% flattened. This is a major factor in how local gravity (as in the sum of forces that causes things to fall, not specifically the effect of mass) varies between places on Earth.
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XKCD 1115
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... either way, they are flexible. As you can see when a train passes.
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Much as the phrase "double standards" is easy to reach for here, that's not what most of them have. They have fixity; there's no preset threshold for them to hear an argument, they already stopped listening at the first indication they didn't already agree.
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There's also that little inverse square law, and red shift, and what appears to be finite time. In simple terms, it's dark because no matter how many lights there are they're not that tightly packed.
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