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Originally posted by diehard_democrat
First: rainbows are formed by droplets of water within the atmosphere when sunlight strikes them at an angle. Take your hose and nozzle set on mist and spray it at a 90° angle to the sun. And don't try it on a cloudy day, either.
Second: If there were glass in the atmosphere, Earth would be so hot we wouldn't be living here. The greenhouse effect provided by the air alone is enough for us to live on. Have you stepped into a glass greenhouse on a hot sunny day before?
Third: I'm an amateur astronomer who goes out many many nights to observe, and I know all about atmospheric distortion. If there were glass in the atmosphere, atmospheric distortion would be so horrible you wouldn't believe it. Look at a lamp through a smooth round glass. Move the glass left and right. See how elongated the light becomes? If the atmosphere had glass in it, while watching a sunset it would appear to stretch across a huge portion of the sky.
Does any of this count as evidence, or will it be "debunked" by you right along with everybody else's perfectly true scientific explanations?
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Plumbo, why does your little robot-guy have a McDonald's symbol on his face? Is that somehow part of the picture you're describing to us? Is McDonalds a bigger part of the "universe conspiracy" or whatever you think we are all brainwashed with?
Isn't Cyrus Teed's sphere, although inverted, still just a sphere hanging in space? I mean, okay so our sphere has God at the center of it, but outside our sphere, what exists? That is to say, if we dig and dig, what will we find? A metal plate? What if we burn through it? A vacuum of some "other space"? Well couldn't we then go out and explore the outer surface of this metal sphere we all live in?
Wouldn't you agree that this should be the largest and most primary goal of mankind-- to dig into the Earth and thereby go into actual outer space or whatever it is that lies beneath the dirt?
I am also curious as to why you list your city as Chicago. As I recall, Teed's religion got started there. Is that why you are there or is it just coincidence?
My little robot is named Mel. He was/is the training character for part of the McDonalds e-learning I created/animated for them.
I guess if we keep digging deeper we'll find out. So far it's about 9 miles. I personally don't think the shell is much deeper. But according to the bible, "hell" is on the outside.
I would say that converting the world to Christianity would be.
DOB: 12/31/66
Location: Chicago, IL., St. Joseph's Hospital
Originally posted by Longy4eva
Physics of all cellestial bodies in the universe dictate anything with sufficient gravitaitonal mass is circular.. sorry, spherical. the Earth must be spherical, because for it to form into any other shape, it would have to be artificial. the reason for this, is when stuff attracts together, it averages out and its general shape will be spherical. its a law of physics.
the glass would have to be i'd guess 50m thick to have any chance of being strong enough to not collapse on itself. therefore, there wouldn't be much cutting through 50m glass. especially relatively slow moving shuttles!
Eight days after its encounter with the Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back and captured this remarkable view of the Earth and the Moon. This image was taken from a distance of about 6.2 million kilometers (3.9 million miles), on December 16, 1990. (41K) Image: NASA
Most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar insertion. The spacecraft was about 98,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was made. This photo was taken from Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. (34K) Image: NASA
View of the Earth as seen from the Apollo 12 spacecraft. (20K) Image: NASA.
View of Earth as photographed by Apollo 15 on voyage to the Moon. (42K) Image: NASA
View of Earth seen by the Apollo 17 crew as they traveled toward the Moon. The white patch at the bottom is Antarctica. Unobscured by clouds, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula are visible at the top of this image. The large island off the coast of Africa is the Malagasy Republic. (40K) Image: NASA
Originally posted by bordnlazy
So quick question
Originally posted by bordnlazy
there is a difference between a plane twenty thousand feet up with a curved windshield cause the illusion of a sphere, and a 10-30 thousand dollar camera that is made to create accurate pictures my friend, if that were the case ALL pictures would come out distorted wouldn't they? Even your last vacation photos or graduation pics.
Originally posted by Longy4eva
as far as i can see, they just seem like bits of glass..
Originally posted by bordnlazy
I was thinking a little on this , and if the atmosphere was Glass and also sationary, you would have to assume that all the points in the glass up in the Glassosphere where meteors passed thru would be warped, and these warp sections of glass would react alot differently than a clear section of it when light passed thru it(day or night), thus you would be able to take pics of thse or simply see them through a telescope if you knew where you were going, and as i state above if the glass didn't move these points would be stationary, not to mention the fact taht if all the air was contained within this Glassosphere you wouldn't have the different levels of air pressure and different temperatures(going from hot to cold) as you move away from the earth.
Also your explaination doesn't explain lunar eclipses.