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Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: VWE on September 01, 2007, 06:37:40 AM
So... what do they teach you in French schools? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c3_1188631851
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: storch on September 01, 2007, 06:41:21 AM
:rofl that is funny in any language
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: mensa180 on September 01, 2007, 09:33:08 AM
I thought "Okay, a stupid French guy", but what really got me was when he polled the audience.
Title: "A or B? I'll take the 50/50!"
Post by: moot on September 01, 2007, 09:48:56 AM
He couldn't figure out what "gravitates" implies.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: Hornet33 on September 01, 2007, 10:22:16 AM
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Originally posted by mensa180
I thought "Okay, a stupid French guy", but what really got me was when he polled the audience.


That wasn't the messed up part. What was really messed up was 56% of the audiance thought it was the sun as well. Maybe he's related to Miss Teen South Carolina.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: mensa180 on September 01, 2007, 10:35:03 AM
What I meant, I should have added "and the outcome".
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: Dago on September 01, 2007, 11:18:29 AM
Why of course he was confused, he thought everything rotated around France.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: texasmom on September 01, 2007, 11:32:09 AM
OMG ~ that was painful to watch
Title: Orbital mechanics
Post by: moot on September 01, 2007, 11:58:23 AM
It ain't rocket science!
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: AKIron on September 01, 2007, 12:31:09 PM
That can't be for real.

A tougher question for some might have been how long does it take for the moon to complete one rotation about it's own axis?
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: moot on September 01, 2007, 02:09:52 PM
Kids in kindergarten can figure out the answer to that question too, in less than a second..  
56% ! :lol
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: AKIron on September 01, 2007, 02:14:43 PM
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Originally posted by moot
Kids in kindergarten can figure out the answer to that question too, in less than a second..  
56% ! :lol


You might be surprised to learn how many people think the moon doesn't rotate about it's own axis. Or so I seem to recall reading several years ago.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: storch on September 01, 2007, 02:57:10 PM
ask ten people to explain what causes a lunar eclipse
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: moot on September 01, 2007, 04:05:01 PM
Yeah, probably.. must be a pretty uncorelated soup of ideas that make up their picture of the earth-moon system.  Has to be, to accept the moon forever facing the earth, but the moon being the satellite.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: tikky on September 01, 2007, 05:02:51 PM
It's racism!  They want that black guy out of the chair!
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on September 01, 2007, 05:40:54 PM
Laugh as much as you want but a french guy started worlds first on-demand music streaming site that's fully legal.

Just to punish you I won't give you a link. Tee-hee! Euro-revenge! :t
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: spiricom on September 01, 2007, 06:01:48 PM
The man is clearly a genius!
:rofl
Title: Ouch.
Post by: TalonX on September 01, 2007, 06:09:25 PM
So how many Frenchmen DOES it take to defend Paris?

Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: gpwurzel on September 01, 2007, 06:10:37 PM
Eerrrrm.....1.......he's just never around when u need him.....ever.........




:p


Wurzel
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: storch on September 01, 2007, 06:58:41 PM
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Originally posted by gpwurzel
Eerrrrm.....1.......he's just never around when u need him.....ever.........




:p


Wurzel
:rofl
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: Holden McGroin on September 01, 2007, 08:56:08 PM
All yall realize that the world is indeed flat:

--- it just that gravity has warped the spacetime in which the world exists in order for it to appear to be a globe.
Title: Never-ending story
Post by: moot on September 02, 2007, 07:28:06 AM
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All yall realize that the world is indeed flat:

--- it just that gravity has warped the spacetime in which the world exists in order for it to appear to be a globe.

Black hole of stupidity?
Title: Re: Never-ending story
Post by: Holden McGroin on September 02, 2007, 07:37:23 AM
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Originally posted by moot
Black hole of stupidity?


You know, on second thought, Einstein wasn't all that smart...  

it's I before E and he got it wrong twice in his own name.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: moot on September 02, 2007, 08:12:35 AM
:noid  I understood you mockingly meant that at Earth's scale, not Omega's, oops. What were you fed as a kid anyway?

Read your post again and found yet another possible meaning, so I give up :p
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: Gianlupo on September 04, 2007, 04:46:49 AM
OH




MY




GOD!  :O

Poor Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo and Newton are screaming madly from their graves..... too bad no one can hear them........

(Btw, the above are all Europeans! :D)
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: Angus on September 04, 2007, 07:24:58 AM
Kopernicus. Sun - center theory. HTF do you get into "do you wanna be a millionaire" with no clue of this.
Or knowing anything of the tides?

And of course Kopernicus was a Euro. After all, when he was born, USA had just indians.

The high-education point of the world back in those days was:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Courtyard_of_Collegium_Maius%2C_Krakow.jpg)

University of Krakow in Poland, and still stands. I have even been there!

As a WW2 sidenote in the WW2 forum we have, in WW2 this was still a top-notch university at the outbreak of the war.
Nazis didn't like that and rounded up the professors. Killed most I belive.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: JBA on September 04, 2007, 07:43:01 AM
ya, but at least their still "thinner", "more Progressive". 'less aggressive' and "more well liked diplomatically" then the US.















sarcasm>>>>...
Dumb as a box of nails. but they look good.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on September 04, 2007, 08:33:12 AM
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Originally posted by Angus
Kopernicus. Sun - center theory. HTF do you get into "do you wanna be a millionaire" with no clue of this.
Or knowing anything of the tides?

And of course Kopernicus was a Euro. After all, when he was born, USA had just indians.

The high-education point of the world back in those days was:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Courtyard_of_Collegium_Maius%2C_Krakow.jpg)

University of Krakow in Poland, and still stands. I have even been there!

As a WW2 sidenote in the WW2 forum we have, in WW2 this was still a top-notch university at the outbreak of the war.
Nazis didn't like that and rounded up the professors. Killed most I belive.


Nazis probably had a hunch about the Polish mathematicians who were cracking the Enigma since WWI. Their work was based on a traitor in the german enigma team and the knowledge was transferred to the allies who developed the system further. We can thank our PC's for enigma btw. The first computer was built to crack it.
Title: The world is flat, ITS FLAT I TELL YA!!
Post by: FiLtH on September 04, 2007, 09:48:22 AM
I loved the end when he said "Of course"