fenski
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Not Amazon - it's some phishing pish
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Lawless to St Johnstone is a done deal (apparently)
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Going by Archie's quote, Nisbet's still in the picture. As long as Penrice, McCarthy, Nisbet, and McLaughlin get some games this season, the development squad will still be motivated.
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...and Sammon
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Well that's Storey announced
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I was meaning that we don't normally sign players direct from the continent not age.
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Neither did Milan. I'm pretty sure it's Sammon.
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I reckon Nisbet will be going out on loan.
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BBC match preview says Doolan's returned to training. Archie must reckon we need more options up front. Fair enough, given our scoring record.
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It's 2 strikers
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Storey and Sammon I think
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Great performance from all the players - Barton, Welsh and Lindsay were stand outs for me. Excellent subs from Archibald too with Amoo giving us the cutting edge at the end. Also good to get one over the Saints considering I live in Perth!
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I've just read that lunar eclipses can be explained by the presence of an invisible 'anti-moon' which occasionally obscures the actual moon... Ok...
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Can't believe this thread continues to roll on...
Sabbath - the video you posted that purports to explain eclipses... 1) It's a groovy computer simulation - just the sort of thing you pour scorn on normally! But proves absolutely nothing. If the sun and moon are both objects of a similar size orbiting above the earth's flat surface along similar paths, then why have they not collided at some point? Also I don't understand how day and night works if the sun is permanently above the horizon? I'm obviously not clever enough for this new science... 2) The video purports to explain solar eclipses. What about lunar eclipses, where the shadow of the earth is cast on the moon. This was one of the earliest observations which proved the earth was a globe, as no matter where the eclipse happens, the earth shadow is an arc.
The more evidence you post, the more laughable your theory becomes. Finally, can you please explain the motive behind all of mainstream science conspiring to dismiss flat earth theory for centuries?
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Wasn't there today, but for me the most disappointing thing about this season has been the almost total disappearance of the quick passing football that got us up to the SPL...
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Sorry Sabbath, I couldn't watch that video beyond the 12th minute because the video started going on about map projections as if Mercator is wrong and Peters is right. That is completely untrue - Mercator preserves direction locally (as it is a conformal projection), Peters preserves area (as it is an equal-area projection). They have been developed for different purposes. There is no map projection capable of preserving all properties (as I've said before) because you are projecting a sphere on to a flat surface.The Mercator vs Peters projection debate is more about which type of projection is more appropriate for general purpose use. If that is the typical quality of 'scientific' argument that video reaches, then it simply does not stand up to any form of scrutiny.
So I still seek a believable source that explains how lunar eclipses fit with a flat earth model, and how sunrise/sunset times vary across the earth's surface. If the earth was flat, then the sun would surely have to rise and set at the same time everywhere on the earth.
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I live in Perth and try to get down to about every second home game (one a month) with my son. Haven't managed to do that this season for a few reasons - my son's 15 and it can be difficult to get him to come because he'd rather be out with his mates who are all in this Fair City Unity gang young Saints supporters group. The last game we managed was the win at McDiarmid... And I seem to have had more things to do on Saturdays. Everyone will have there own reasons why they don't make home games, but I would like to be their more frequently.
We will be going up to the County game though - the league situation and the novelty of an away trip to Dingwall was enough to persuade my son it was worth missing a day hanging about with his mates trying to get their hands on cheap alcohol and fags...
Any chance this might sell out making it worth attempting to get tickets in advance?
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That was funny in a sort of Psychic Sally sort of way:) How does Eric explain lunar eclipses? He must've done so, given they are one of the first things that made people realise that the earth had to be a globe (like all other planets in the solar system). And how does Eric explain the fact that on earth it is day and night simultaneously (say New Zealand vs Britain for example)? Geniunely not being angry and dismissive here - just like to know how this theory works, without having to listen to his droning voice for hours.
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I am not the number one authority on maps - where did I say that? I have however worked with them, either in a surveying or IT context for 28 years... Not a boast, just what I have done. And in all that time the earth has proven to be very much a globe... Hey, ho...
I think it best if I leave you, your delusion and your childish references to porn alone... All the best. xx
eta: PS: I see no-one has managed to answer the question about map projections over here either:-)
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=62095.0#.Vvmg6fkrLIU
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How do flat earthers explain day and night? I'm too scared of going to look for fear of getting angry again.
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even the maps makers accept that there are problems with projections in the Southern latitudes, and all maps are so inaccurate there is not one country on earth the correct size...
Please don't talk shite about something I know about. No there is no particular problem with any projection - every single projection is a compromrise - some are good at preserving shape, some are good at preserving area, some are good for the high and low latitudes, while some are good for the mid-latitudes. And the reason for that is simple - when you try to represent a globe on a flat surface, there has to be a compromise - try squashing and orange flat and you'll see what I mean. ******* hell what do you mean by a map, and what do you mean by correct size? Your ignorance on the subject is stunning.
And no I'm not angry because I'm being confronted with a truth which blows away my previous knowledge. I'm angry because there's 4 pages of this pish, and there's narcissists like Dubay or whatever the **** he's called trolling the world so he gets some attention... Jeez, this is why I don't waste my time with forums..
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I spent night after night trying to understand the maths of map projections, and now your telling me it was all unnecessary because the earth is flat!! All we need do is project directly from world to paper with maybe just a wee one dimensional scale factor thrown in! All the guys like Lambert, Mercator, Eckert, Peters, etc who tussled with ways of representing a spherical object on a flat surface whilst preserving shape/direction, area or distance, were really just dunces - Mr Dubay knows better than them all apparently....
So bloody annoying!!! Arrogance and total disrespect not only for the great map makers, surveyors and engineers of the past, but also for great explorers like Amundsen, Cabot, and Magellan, and all the people who really have contributed to our understanding of the earth. There are so many brilliant stories along the way - of people like John 'Longitude' Harrison, the guy who succeeded in building a clock which was accurate enough for navigators to determine longitude as they crossed the world's oceans.
Can you tell that this has really got under my skin...
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I haven't posted on this forum for years, but on being astounded that someone was arguing the earth is flat, I couldn't help myself. I studied Topographic Science at University in the 80's which included the fairly mathematically hefty science of Geodesy... This also incorporates the mathematics and science behind GPS, GLONASS and various other satellite based position systems. I can't remember much about the detail now, but I knew my stuff then (got a 1st class degree), and I can tell you that the earth was absolutely an approximation of an oblate spheroid. I then went on to be a Land Surveyor and gained a professional qualification in the 90's. This involved many things including doing positioning calculations where the curvature of the earth had to be taken in to account - funnily enough these calculations worked - so the earth was still a globe then. I suspect those involved in Civil Engineering, for example those building the new Forth Bridge, telecommunications, projectile physics, meteorology, navigation, and a whole host other things THAT WORK, would be able to state a similar experience.
If the earth has mutated into a flat surface since I changed professions in 00's, I want to know why I never noticed!! I think I better catch up with my mates who are still pacticing surveyors to find out more!!
WHAT ABSOLUTE GUFF!!!
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New Management
in Main Jags forum
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While I think Archie would be more than capable of managing the team next season and there's a lot to be said for managerial continuity, I do think it's the end of this particular chapter of Thistle's history. A fresh start, built on the stable foundations of youth development, training complex, and entertaining football is required.