Flat Earth - A different perspective

Having had a short discussion with someone about the flat earth during which I asked: "is the Moon flat and is an orange also flat?" With no answer forthcoming, I was happy to watch a recent  a BBC Scotland documentary (I player)"Who Are The Flat-Earthers?"  first shown 10th September 2019 in the hope that my questions would be answered.

Not at all like an Horizon special.

I felt the the so called documentary was really an excuse for a bit of travel and fun for the presenter.  However he did interview some flat Earthers in both Scotland and the States.

Apparently some of their logic is based on:

1. If the earth travels so fast in space around the Sun, how do we stay on the ground? Hmm.... let's think a bit.  Oh forget the science, let's get down to real experience:  how do we remain on any travelling vehicle (bike, car, train, plane). Well we do. The Earth is our main vehicle.
Possibly something to do with kinetic energy? Einstein might have mentioned that.

2. Tides only exist on oceans and not small amounts of water.   - I think they do, they could have explained it better. I think even our body fluids, hormones etc react to the cyclical lunar pull.

3. That the Moon is also flat (that answered one of my initial questions). Why? because you can only see one side of it (50%). Hey if he used his eyes once in a while, people can actually see up to 59% of it owing to "Moon wobble", The technical tern is libration. 

I would also like to have seen a flat earth map produced - and queried regarding the time taken to travel various distances, what happens at the edges and what lies beneath?  It is not that flat. the ocean deep,  mountains high etc.
Maybe a flat Earther can answer these points. The map I found on their website requires more explanation. 

A lady interviewed in the States, described the earth as a doughnut shape. Now we're getting somewhere. Not that I personally think of the earth as that shape but possibly the universe or the "branes".  Physicists please get n touch.

Like I said, the documentary lacked depth with no perspective. It was "flat". 
(was that the joke?)

Moving  swiftly on but along the same lines to Richard Dawkins' new book "Outgrowing God: A beginners Guide". I have yet to read it but from interviews, it is his usual rationalisation of the irrational. That is not possible is it?

I thought he had been quiet for a while.  So I don't have to repeat myself, my previous posts are:

Richard Dawkins the selfish-genius
Darwin-talking-Richard Dawkin-once-again

So based on my favoured Darwin's theory of evolution. We are all thankfully so diverse. If we were not meant to be here, nature would not permit it so we would not be here. Welcome all flat Earthers, TV presenters. Creationists, everyone even Richard Dawkins!

We are all souls with an earthly mantle.

Boom Baby Boom...ers

It had taken me years to get around to writing this.. This is a start... I may expand and update the info as  and when I think of something useful to report.

PLUTO, the atomic bomb of planets - astrologically speaking,  takes 248 years to orbit the Sun. That is just over 20 years per sign. (248/12)

In this simplistic view, it would become square (90 degrees) to one's birth placement of Pluto when you are 60. It is described as one of the factors active around people's mid-life crisis.

60+? you're lucky! 

Those born in the 1950s, more specifically 1950 to 1985  had all hell let lose early. They are living in the fast lane. 

Here is a rather broad brush table. If you were born 1st June on the years noted, it maybe slightly more accurate. Think of it a s an approximation. It was not worth looking at every year. So check your chart for more specific figures. Also the power of the square would be felt sometime before it becomes exact.

Year	Pluto	Approx. Age when first SQUARED
1945	80 Leo	41
1950	160 Leo	39
1955	240 Leo	37
1960	30 Virgo	36
1965	130 Virgo	35
1970	240 Virgo	35
1975	60 Libra	36
1980	190 Libra	37
1985	20 Scorpio	39
1990	150 Scorpio	42
1995	280 Scorpio	46
2000	110 Sagittarius	Well over 50!

What does that mean?

Like busses, you wait for ages, then three (four in this case) come along at once.

The mid-life crisis is heightened. (Along with the usual Saturn square, a Uranus opposition. Neptune aquare). Many have been seen to be made redundant and then career changes opposed to retirement. Or perhaps very early retirement! Jobless.

Also it means that those born  in this period may even live to see a Pluto opposition.

Get checking your ephemeris!

Boom boom.

Half full or quarter empty- Lunacy?

So a friend said the other night: "What a lovely half Moon".
I replied "Quarter"
Puzzled.
I then had to go on to explain that it was a first quarter Moon etc. The full Moon is only a half Moon.
Fractious Fractions!