More money than sense....

[captain nemo1701]

This made our office giggle:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41399164

IMHO, this guy should read some astronomy books or watch NASA videos. Bit worrying that he's crowd funding the whole thing so it'll mean some fools shelling out cash for a dumb idea, much like this:

 

[Oxo]

He could finish up with more money than some other people have sense.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

It is a brilliant idea. Millions of people will go and see it and pay good money for it. But I do want to see him fit a pair of each species in there.

 

[Drago]

God is thinking to himself - "Hhmmmmm, nemo...ah, yes, blasphemy and doubting. Lightning strike on the testicles scheduled for 1805hrs."

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Enough of those moored around our coastline and the housing shortage problem is solved.

 

[Reynard]

Well, it's easy enough to disprove without all the fancy stuff. If the Earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off it already... (Well, knowing my two...)

 

[mustang1]

I have more apples than computers. Wait, I don't get it. What is the unit of measurement for money and sense.... £ and IQ? Pasettas and miles? What are we talking about here?

 

[green1]

If the earth is flat how would his satellite stay in orbit?

 

[Oxo]

If the earth is flat how would his satellite stay in orbit?

I'm sure Terry Pratchett would have been able to answer that.

 

[snorri]

It's all been done before, and the Dutch one actually floats, although not making money either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan's_Ark

 

[midlife]

If the earth is flat how would his satellite stay in orbit?

Rotates around the centre of mass?

 

[Profpointy]

If the earth is flat how would his satellite stay in orbit?

Well it goes round the edge and then underneath. Duh .. what else would it do

 

[Cp40Carl]

Satellites orbiting the earth are essentially continually falling forward. It's a bit like continually falling off a cliff. If they earth was flat this wouldn't work.

People believe all sorts of nonsense - miracle conceptions, resurrections, transforming water into wine. Crazy (oblate spheroid) planet.

 

[midlife]

Satellites orbiting the earth are essentially continually falling forward. It's a bit like continually falling off a cliff. If they earth was flat this wouldn't work.

People believe all sorts of nonsense - miracle conceptions, resurrections, transforming water into wine. Crazy (oblate spheroid) planet.

I can understand geostationary orbits are tricky but any satellite should rotate about any object's centre of mass? After all the moon rotates around the earth but the earth is not round.

 

[Profpointy]

Satellites orbiting the earth are essentially continually falling forward. It's a bit like continually falling off a cliff. If they earth was flat this wouldn't work.

People believe all sorts of nonsense - miracle conceptions, resurrections, transforming water into wine. Crazy (oblate spheroid) planet.

The earth could still be a flat disc and the satellites would go underneath

I can understand geostationary orbits are tricky but any satellite should rotate about any object's centre of mass? After all the moon rotates around the earth but the earth is not round.

Quite. It could orbit round the centre of mass of a disk shaped earth just as it would round a spherical object. OK some correction for mass distribution but would still work - assuming it didn't smack into the turtles at any rate