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System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


This whole discussion reminds me how Alain Manesson-Mallet in his “Description of the Universe“ (1683) says that modern science suggests that the farthest stars may be up to four million miles away from Earth :allears:

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
For people who want to continue this discussion, you might be interested in this thread.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Deltasquid posted:

The limit is "as high as the current state of technology would let you". So I guess 299 792 458 meters per second.

loving nanny state won't even let me go faster than the speed of light

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

This map not be reproduced!

Original map, do not steal

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Australia is not a small country.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Heaven is a place above Flat Earth, could be about 4,000 miles up

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
Relevant given that the Transport Secretary has cancelled all non-London electrification projects and approved a London project that'll cost three times the cost of the non-London ones, all within the space of five days…

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
London is expanding. Northumbria resurgent claims the west coast. Leicester now part of the West Midlands, provoking outrage, horror, and Telford. The South West hasn't discovered transport yet.

vyelkin posted:

Heaven is a place above Flat Earth, could be about 4,000 miles up

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Guavanaut posted:

The South West hasn't discovered transport yet.

This much is accurate.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Guavanaut posted:

London is expanding. Northumbria resurgent claims the west coast. Leicester now part of the West Midlands, provoking outrage, horror, and Telford. The South West hasn't discovered transport yet.



Hell has been built atop Jerusalem. Checks out.

Elyv
Jun 14, 2013



What is "the Dark Wood"?

Mygna
Sep 12, 2011

Elyv posted:

What is "the Dark Wood"?

Count Roland
Oct 6, 2013

Mods, re-name me SHE-WOLF OF INCONTINENCE.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007


Earth is round in the Divine Comedy. Dante even comments on gravity switching directions as they pass through the center of the world.

Pitch
Jun 16, 2005

しらんけど

vyelkin posted:

Heaven is a place above Flat Earth, could be about 4,000 miles up
ooh baby, do you know what that's worth?
heaven is a place above Flat Earth

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Byzantine posted:

Earth is round in the Divine Comedy. Dante even comments on gravity switching directions as they pass through the center of the world.
Well yeah, if it wasn't according to that map all the Israelites would have fallen off.

The major crazy map theory in his day was that the hemispheres must be perfectly balanced, thus land in the antipodes, but they must be uninhabited because no missionaries could pass through the Torrid zone at the equator, and God wouldn't let people live anywhere they couldn't be evangelized. A good place to put an allegorical purgatory. Also roughly in the area of the Pitcairn Islands by that map, which is a good place to put Purgatory.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Guavanaut posted:

Well yeah, if it wasn't according to that map all the Israelites would have fallen off.

The major crazy map theory in his day was that the hemispheres must be perfectly balanced, thus land in the antipodes, but they must be uninhabited because no missionaries could pass through the Torrid zone at the equator, and God wouldn't let people live anywhere they couldn't be evangelized. A good place to put an allegorical purgatory. Also roughly in the area of the Pitcairn Islands by that map, which is a good place to put Purgatory.

To be honest a group of islands full of inbred pedophilic mutineers sounds more like hell to me.

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

Rumda posted:

To be honest a group of islands full of inbred pedophilic mutineers sounds more like hell to me.

sounds like they know how to party



im celtic orthodox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEt2XdN_TbQ

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 12 hours!
Apologies if already posted.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

Lager beer is proof that god loves us
Pillbug
Where's the Ethiopian Orthodox Church?

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

I never thought to ask but I do wonder .... how do I (no data)?

e: in contrast to Luxembourg's far more introspective favorite: "How do I?"

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

Inescapable Duck posted:

Apologies if already posted.



Truga or any of the other resident Slovenians, pls confirm

e: wait, is this an (unintentional?) Highlander joke ahaha

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Inescapable Duck posted:

Apologies if already posted.



...get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you, what kind of life would that be?

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

Inescapable Duck posted:

Apologies if already posted.



Seriously, how do you activate one's genitals?

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Inescapable Duck posted:

Apologies if already posted.


Belgians, I'd start by looking at the Portuguese if I were you.

Belarus, you shame your industrial past.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
Not sure about ever going back to Iberia after seeing that. Now, back to stalking Tom Cruise.

e: The two could really help each other out with their little problems though.

A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jul 25, 2017

ranbo das
Oct 16, 2013


Inescapable Duck posted:

Apologies if already posted.



"How do I rock?"

"Iceland, are you just looking at things in your country and asking how to do them?"

"How do I snow? "

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Czechoslovakia united by a strong desire to use pussy effectively

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

steinrokkan posted:

Czechoslovakia united by a strong desire to use pussy effectively

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015

Ensign Expendable posted:

Where's the Ethiopian Orthodox Church?

Way to the south of that map (also I'm surprised it's autocephalous at all but wiki says it was granted by the coptic pope in the 50s)

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Inescapable Duck posted:

Apologies if already posted.



I know these maps are all bullshit but I still love 'how do I steal the diamonds'

Frionnel
May 7, 2010

Friends are what make testing worth it.
Sweden just wants to make one friend :smith:

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
Iberia is... troubling.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
I'm "how do I regain Kosovo "

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

HookShot posted:

I'm "how do I regain Kosovo "

Serbian strategy at its finest

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
"how do i avoid roma" :holymoley:

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART
My new brilliant business idea: Sell Slovenians vacations to Iberia

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vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
tbh the one that concerns me the most is Germany, what the hell is with the air there?

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