Flat Earthers

[Odinson]

I was born on the 26th of June 1981. This won't change. It is a fact. At least I think so. Who know's how concrete my birth certificate is. This year I am 36 years old. That's a fact right?

Guess what happens next year.

 

Nah, dude. You're better than this ^^

[Patchelicious]

I was born on the 26th of June 1981. This won't change. It is a fact. At least I think so. Who know's how concrete my birth certificate is. This year I am 36 years old. That's a fact right?

Guess what happens next year.

So my wall is green and I then paint it blue, I change facts?

[popcorn_skollie]

So my wall is green and I then paint it blue, I change facts?

 

Fair enough. I can concede to being flimsy. But does that make it false?

If you painted your wall blue. Its blue. Is that a belief? An opinion? 

How would you define your wall being blue.

[Patchelicious]

Fair enough. I can concede to being flimsy. But does that make it false?

If you painted your wall blue. Its blue. Is that a belief? An opinion?

How would you define your wall being blue.

If something is flimsy, it cant be stated as fact

 

But on my perception blue being blue, well now you are delving into philosophy, and that's something that I can't really comment on, not my strong point.

Edited July 17, 2017 by Patchelicious

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Fair enough. I can concede to being flimsy. But does that make it false?

If you painted your wall blue. Its blue. Is that a belief? An opinion? 

How would you define your wall being blue.

by the wavelength of the light rays that bounce back off it. Ya know, cos that sorta stuff is measurable and quantifiable.

[Eldron]

by the wavelength of the light rays that bounce back off it. Ya know, cos that sorta stuff is measurable and quantifiable.

Game, set and match Myles! Hahahha ohh I pissed myself at this comment.

[Patchelicious]

by the wavelength of the light rays that bounce back off it. Ya know, cos that sorta stuff is measurable and quantifiable.

Well put!

[popcorn_skollie]

Nah, dude. You're better than this ^^

 

Nearly missed this. No comic sans. I actually found it heartwarming. 

 

Still. As petty as I may have been. 

 

Lets look at Patch's walls.

Lets get a group of scientists to measure the light bouncing off it.

If they determine it as blue. Would that be a fact?

[Odinson]

Nearly missed this. No comic sans. I actually found it heartwarming. 

 

Still. As petty as I may have been. 

 

Lets look at Patch's walls.

Lets get a group of scientists to measure the light bouncing off it.

If they determine it as blue. Would that be a fact?

 

Yes. 

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Nearly missed this. No comic sans. I actually found it heartwarming. 

 

Still. As petty as I may have been. 

 

Lets look at Patch's walls.

Lets get a group of scientists to measure the light bouncing off it.

If they determine it as blue. Would that be a fact?

yes. We (as humans) have assigned the name "blue" to a certain spectrum of wavelengths of light. To another extraterrestrial race, that colour may be categorised as "plingitngs" but it remains that wavelength. 

 

That's also the important thing regarding your age. Yes, next year you will be 37. But that fact is relative to the date at which you make that proclamation, and is measured against your date of birth. The fact that you are 36 now does not in any way mean that a fact is not a fact. It means that today, you are 36 years old, considering your DOB. You will be 37 next year, at the same time. Just as today is 17th July 2017. In a few hours, it will be 18th July 2018 in areas of Australia and other eastern countries. Doesn't change the fact that here, now, it is the 17th. 

[popcorn_skollie]

Doesn't change the fact that here, now, it is the 17th. 

 

Bazinga?

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Bazinga?

Nope. It's a fact that is relevant to the time in which it was uttered. IOW a time-sensitive fact, one that takes into account that the nature of the measurement is that it moves as time goes on. 

[Odinson]

Anyhoo. To get this thread back on track. 

 

If the earth isn't flat, how do you explain the Free State? 

 

#alternativefacts #platsoosnpannekoek

[Thor Buttox]

Anyhoo. To get this thread back on track.

 

If the earth isn't flat, how do you explain the Free State?

 

#alternativefacts #platsoosnpannekoek

Maybe plateau is actually Afrikaans?

 

(Although the second defn 'state of little progress after some activity' probably is more apt)

Edited July 17, 2017 by Thor Buttox

[Jenna Chicky]

by the wavelength of the light rays that bounce back off it. Ya know, cos that sorta stuff is measurable and quantifiable.

That would depend on the fact whether it is a specular reflection or a diffuse reflection .

[Eldron]

That would depend on the fact whether it is a specular reflection or a diffuse reflection .

It has been many years since university but I'm pretty sure wavelength only changes in refraction not reflection...