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The other day I was inspired to look up some information about "The Flat Earth Society".
Then it occurred to me: Wouldn't a suitable name for a mountain climbing group be "The Steep Earth Society"?
I searched the net to se if anyone had chosen that name, but found none. I am not into mountain climbing myself, yet I wish there was a group by that name.
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Is there a Horizontal Earth Society?
And is a Horizontal Earth flat or round?
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Maybe "The Stupid Earth Society" would be a better name 
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trønderen wrote: I searched the net to se if anyone had chosen that name, but found none
"ZurdoDev".
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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And why isn't there a Flat Mars Society?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The reply from the Flat Earth Society is brilliant! Quote: "Hi Elon, thanks for the question. Unlike the Earth, Mars has been observed to be round," the FES replied, "We hope you have a fantastic day!"
If you are going to have a crazy bonkers theory, do it with conviction. 
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I can accept that both earth and mars are flat - as long as you don't expect geometry to be euclidian.
If you throw a ball, Newton says that it follows a curve due to the gravitation. Einstein said that it follows a straight line, in a space modified by the mass of the earth, so it has a non-euclidian geometry. If we just do the math in the proper way, geodesics are 'straight', and there is no 'gravitational force'.
You can equally well claim that earth is the center of the universe, the sun and the starts circling it. It takes a terriby complex math do describe the movements of all the other celestial bodies with earth as the fixed centerpoint, but it can be done. Assuming that the earth circles the sun makes much simpler math, and personally I prefer that.
Similarly, I prefer earth to be viewed as a sphere in euclidian/einsteinian geometry, rather than as flat in some weird non-euclidian geometry.
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trønderen wrote: I prefer earth to be viewed as a sphere in euclidian/einsteinian geometry, rather than as flat in some weird non-euclidian geometry.
But then where would the Turtle and the Elephants live?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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They live on the other side of the "flat" surface, of course!
All you need to do is to apply the inverse transform from the "flat" surface that we really live on to the "spherical" surface the benighted scientists insist that we live on, and you will know where to look!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Our MTB club is called Fattracks. (as opposed to the narrow road wheels)
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I can understand the Flat Earth Society still hanging on in, say, the Netherlands. But these people can't have travelled much if they've never come across a hill, or seen skiing on the telly...
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Most of the Dutch people I have met seem to be terribly tall. One of my best Dutch friends is 6ft 11ins tall. He claims it is because there are no mountain in the Netherlands so they had no choice but to be taller so they could see distant things! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It would be amusing to stage a debate between those who believe the Earth is flat and those who believe it is hollow.
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Low code and no code environments are often made fun of on this site. I've actually used a low-code environment and yes, developers should be concerned. Adapt or die. They are incredibly powerful and not hard to learn.
But, somebody still has to write the low-code environments. That will always exist. But at some point the job of "programmer" will be flooded in the market and salaries will begin to drop. Unless you specialize in something that can't be moved to low-code.
This is one reason I'm building a farm.  
[Edit]Only a few responses in and my point is already proven. [/Edit] 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 22-Oct-20 16:25pm.
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ZurdoDev wrote: This is one reason I'm building a farm.
A chicken, pigs and cows or a server one? 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I hadn't even thought about a server one. Pigs of course.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nice... we might have a new provider for bacon
wohooo![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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ZurdoDev wrote: This is one reason I'm building a farm.
That's a new idea! Grow your software on a field.
And now, please pass me the algorithmic cabbage.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The "duhvelopers" who're at risk from those things are the ones asking the facepalmingly stupid questions on QA and SO. Perhaps if their jobs are deleted, we won't have to keep deleting their doomed cries for help.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: The "duhvelopers" who're at risk from those things are the ones asking the facepalmingly stupid questions on QA and SO
Not true at all. There is no reason most businesses can't run on low code environments today for the bulk of their apps.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Highly-skilled developers/architects will always be in demand. Unskilled developers should not be allowed anywhere near a keyboard.
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These questions existed before MS Access made the promise. The question is over twenty years old. We heard about the semantical web and seen it fail.
I'm thinking about stopping with programming. I think I may be happier shoveling muck and leave the programming part for those that learned C# in two weeks.
As the one who crippled "Exceptional Magic" by putting out a free version; the one that caused a 14k euro bug and unpaid overtime for three people.
Yup, I'm quitting programming.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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