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HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  02:54:07  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote

"Routine Maneuver" Says Navy

The Flat Earth Society has widely publicized the following aerial photograph, claiming that it shows a United States aircraft carrier making an emergency maneuver to avoid falling off the edge of the earth.

The Navy at first had no comment, but has finally responded by issuing a terse statement:

"The earth is indeed a globe, but not a perfect sphere. It has bumps and dimples, some of which still remain uncharted. The photograph in question shows the USS Enterprise successfully avoiding an uncharted 'sea-dimple' in the South Pacific. This is a routine maneuver, well known to mariners throughout the world."




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Edited by - HalfMooner on 01/31/2008 02:59:17

Boron10
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  11:48:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Boron10 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Umm, HalfMooner? You claim that the Earth is a globe, but your own photographic evidence shows that the Earth has the rough "Pizza Shape" that we at the Flat Earth Society have been proposing for years!

If you examine the waterfall at the edge of the Earth, you will notice stars behind it. This is irrefutable proof of the flat, "pizza-shaped" Earth Theory!
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filthy
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  11:57:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Heh, that one took me to google in a hurry. Then I realized that this was, after all, Moonscape.

I'm a little slow today....




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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  12:09:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Boron10

If you examine the waterfall at the edge of the Earth, you will notice stars behind it. This is irrefutable proof of the flat, "pizza-shaped" Earth Theory!
Utter nonsense!

You'll notice that the edge is actually the edge of a central hole, and not an outer rim.

Thus, this is irrefutable proof of the flat, DVD-shaped Earth Theory!

Suck on that, pizza lover...

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  12:15:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by filthy

Heh, that one took me to google in a hurry. Then I realized that this was, after all, Moonscape.

I'm a little slow today....




That's a gotcha, Fil.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Ricky
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  14:32:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.


Name that film.

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pleco
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Posted - 01/31/2008 :  14:49:26   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Holy Grail

and no I did not use Google...

by Filthy
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Edited by - pleco on 01/31/2008 14:50:07
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