Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Explain to him that for the water to stay in the bucket it needs a force acting radially inwardsIf the earth was spinnign and we didn't have gravity we'd all get thrown off
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greedyostrich Cheese is evil! Cheddar is VOODOO!, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 19:40,
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Also ask about the polessince you'd only be spinning very slowly on the spot when standing there.
Or is the reason Scot of the Antarctic didn't come back because he stood on the South Pole and, with insufficient gravity, floated away into space?
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The poles!That's it! I never thought of that, I've tried for ages to find something simple enough to refute his theory that is A: understandable and B: easy to remember when drunk :D
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 20:40,
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Tried that.Tried saying if he was right and we were staying on earth cos it's spinning, we'd all be stuck to the atmosphere not the ground, too. He just said I was wrong.
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