Cosmo
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if LEVEL means perpendicular to the radius of the earth and the earth is spherical - how can anything level be STRAIGHT ?
Ive a few issues...
Firstly you dont mean perpendicular, you mean parallel.
Secondly, and assuming you have now changed perpendicular to parallel, level doesnt mean parallel to the radius of the earth, it means parallel to whichever surface you are trying to make something level to. Often a flat base such as a floor.
Thirdly, the earth's surface, although round, is not completely flat. So even going by your theory, there will be somewhere on earth that is level to pretty much everything else.
That is all.
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willay
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u2u bro
[Edited on 13-01-2010 by willay]
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chloe16v
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cosmo  im glad you pay so much attention to my sig 
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Simon
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Do you actually think she came up with that sentence anyway
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Daimo B
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Course not
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Originally posted by Simon
Do you actually think she came up with that sentence anyway
Saw it somewhere and thought it'd make her sound smart.
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ed
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She posted that on Facebook too, there are a lot of thins wrong with that question and I almost replied telling her that. I'll say what I was going to say here.
A level line is a tangent of the earths gravitational field that is perpendicular to its diameter.
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Do good girls go to heaven though?.
Pics or it didn't happen...
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Skylined
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Isn't the tangent of the radius what it means?
Which theoretically should be LEVEL
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lostboy
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The earth is an oblate spheroid.
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DannyB
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Definately a copy/paste job
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by chloe16v
cosmo im glad you pay so much attention to my sig
I dont, someone mentioned it in Nathy_87's threesome thread in the PL and I just though it was about as retarded as that thread and deserved to me mentioned.
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Nath
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ctrl C
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baza31
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who actually cares 
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by baza31
who actually cares
I dont want other stupid people copying and pasting it about thinking its some profound statement....you knwo whot he stupid ones are who would do so....
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MattyG206
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dont think many people care tbh think a u2u would of done.
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ShEp
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Let's cut to the chase.
Read the sig.
Is she trying to tell us she's a bender?
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Rickavo
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
if LEVEL means perpendicular to the radius of the earth and the earth is spherical - how can anything level be STRAIGHT ?
Ive a few issues...
Firstly you dont mean perpendicular, you mean parallel.
Secondly, and assuming you have now changed perpendicular to parallel, level doesnt mean parallel to the radius of the earth, it means parallel to whichever surface you are trying to make something level to. Often a flat base such as a floor.
Thirdly, the earth's surface, although round, is not completely flat. So even going by your theory, there will be somewhere on earth that is level to pretty much everything else.
That is all.
Wrong.
That is what parallel means. If the floor is unlevel and i want to hang a picture for example then the picture, if level wont be parallel to the floor.
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It's down to interpretation. If you draw a centreline through a perfect circle, then where it disects the circumference it is perpendicular because the curve is a stationary point at the turning point. I am on an iPhone at present so may bung something through paint to show it later on!
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alan-g-w
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quote:
Originally posted by Rickavo
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
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if LEVEL means perpendicular to the radius of the earth and the earth is spherical - how can anything level be STRAIGHT ?
Ive a few issues...
Firstly you dont mean perpendicular, you mean parallel.
Secondly, and assuming you have now changed perpendicular to parallel, level doesnt mean parallel to the radius of the earth, it means parallel to whichever surface you are trying to make something level to. Often a flat base such as a floor.
Thirdly, the earth's surface, although round, is not completely flat. So even going by your theory, there will be somewhere on earth that is level to pretty much everything else.
That is all.
Wrong.
That is what parallel means. If the floor is unlevel and i want to hang a picture for example then the picture, if level wont be parallel to the floor.
Correct. If you're using a spirit level, where the bubble sits is nothing to do with the surface it's above. It's to do with gravity.
Get it up you Cosmo you smart arse.
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DizzyRebel
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well as long as the centre line of the object and centre line of the circle (so lets say a brick and the earth) are in line with each other then that object could be called level with the earths surface.
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Rickavo
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Which isnt flat which is what chloe was saying in the first place?
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Rickavo
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Cosmo's thread is a FAIL TBH
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DizzyRebel
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Originally posted by Rickavo
Which isnt flat which is what chloe was saying in the first place?
an object does not have to be flat for another object to be level wit it. Its just finding the centreline.
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Dom
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Originally posted by lostboy
The earth is an oblate spheroid.
Exactly! So "Thirdly, the earth's surface, although round" - is completely FALSE!
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