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Jay in Phoenix wrote:This is a photo from Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. It is from 1969. No photo shop or digital effects. Just a print.



What do you see pops?

They aren't just visually vanishing, they are curving downward, proving curvature.

Washington (CNN) — Democrats claimed a landslide victory in a special election for a Kentucky House district that voted heavily for Donald Trump in 2016.

Linda Belcher, a Democrat, won the special election for Kentucky's House District 49 on Tuesday with 3,386 votes. Rebecca Johnson, a Republican, received 1,561 votes, according to official results from Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Johnson is the widow of Republican state Rep. Dan Johnson, who narrowly defeated Belcher, then an incumbent, in 2016 and committed suicide late last year. The lawmaker had been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 2013 in a report by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. He committed suicide a day after he denied the allegations.

Trump won the district with 72% of the vote in 2016. Belcher's win is the 37th Republican-held state legislative seat that Democrats have picked off since Trump took office.

Belcher will serve out the rest of Johnson's term, which ends in December.

According to the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Johnson's campaign manager claimed their election loss was a result of voter fraud. In a statement, Johnson said she had heard about people being turned away from the polls, adding that "it's like we are in a third world country."

Kentucky's Board of Elections will certify the results of the special election on February 27.

Goober McTuber wrote:Sheesh, I go away for one lousy week and you all turn my wonderful thread into a huge hair-pulling contest. Fuck all y'all. I come back and start posting copious and boring amounts of worthless cut and paste shit. I would tell you how I banged the wife on our anniversary trip but it did not happen so nothing to tell.

Jay in Phoenix wrote:Pops, where on this round ol' planet Earth did I say the "water is curving downward." I said the towers "appear" to be curving into the horizon. It's the same effect as ships moving out to sea away from the eye. When they reach the horizon, they "appear" to "sink" into the line of sight.

What part of this is confusing you?

Jay wrote:What do you see pops?

They aren't just visually vanishing, they are curving downward, proving curvature.

Jay wrote:They (towers) aren't just visually vanishing, they are curving downward, proving curvature.

Jay wrote:Did that say anything about water pops? No, it did not. I was referring to the towers. Which are curving down.

Softball Bat wrote:The towers are curving downward (proving curvature), but the water is not?

lol

Jay wrote:The picture clearly shows the towers appearing to curve.

Softball Bat wrote:
It's a simple case of a vanishing point.

Jay in Phoenix wrote:
How is it, that you receive signals on your smart phone and wireless internet?

Clock is ticking pops.

Jay in Phoenix wrote:Pops, where on this round ol' planet Earth did I say the "water is curving downward." I said the towers "appear" to be curving into the horizon. It's the same effect as ships moving out to sea away from the eye. When they reach the horizon, they "appear" to "sink" into the line of sight.

What part of this is confusing you?

Softball Bat wrote:Wrong.



Educate yourself.

It'll take 3 minutes and 11 seconds.



The bottom of the umbrella disappears first.

Moving Sale wrote:STFU you stupid lying fuck. Produce the pic with a 1969 stamp or admit you lied.
You fucking POS.

LS wrote:This is another falsehood on your part. The lower of the power line towers disappearing isn't due to a vanishing point. At a vanishing point all of the tower would disappear, not just the lower parts of the towers.

LS wrote:Holly crap you really suck at this. Nowhere in that video is vanishing point or discussed or presented.

LS wrote:Further there is a clear obstacle (a board) in front of the “eye”. This is the reason the lower part of the umbrella stand is the last to appear.

shutyomouth wrote:t is obviously SOME sort of fucking shape. Since you seem to be an expert on this matter, why not tell us what it is?

Softball Bat wrote: The windows on an airliner are curved, anyway, so there is distortion.


Both Jay and Lefty claim to have seen the curvature from the air.
lol

But of course they have not posted any such picture.

LS wrote:At a vanishing point all of the tower would disappear, not just the lower parts of the towers.

Softball Bat wrote:You are viewing two objects, one 10 ft tall and the other 3 ft tall.

You watch the objets as you move, move, move away from the objects... to the vanishing point.

Do they vanish at the same time?

Take your time.


rotf...


Come correct.
Or continue to show abject stupidity.

Left Seaer wrote:I am pretty convinced that you are just trolling

Left Seater wrote:Think about what you are saying. Your point is the three foot object disappears before the 50 foot object. I would agree.

Left Seater wrote:At a vanishing point all of the tower would disappear, not just the lower parts of the towers.

Left Seater wrote:But ask yourself why can I still see the upper 47 feet of the 50 foot object if there isn’t curvature?

Softball Bat wrote:

Left Seater wrote:But ask yourself why can I still see the upper 47 feet of the 50 foot object if there isn’t curvature?

I have asked myself this question.
The answer is very simple.

The video explained this, as well.

In the video, is earth curvature cutting off the bottom of the umbrella?

Nope.

He is simply low to the ground and the bottom of the object he is viewing is therefore cut off.

When he gets to a higher elevation, he can see all of the umbrella.

It is a matter of perspective.

It is that simple.

Softball Bat wrote: I have asked myself this question.
The answer is very simple.

The video explained this, as well.

In the video, is earth curvature cutting off the bottom of the umbrella?

Softball Bat wrote:He is simply low to the ground and the bottom of the object he is viewing is therefore cut off.

Softball Bat wrote:When he gets to a higher elevation, he can see all of the umbrella.

Washington (CNN) — Former Donald Trump campaign official Rick Gates will plead guilty to two criminal charges in special counsel Robert Mueller's wide-ranging investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 presidential campaign and related activities.

His arraignment is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday.

Gates is now the third Trump associate known to be working with Mueller's investigation, and his plea deal will put the spotlight on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors are trying to pressure Manafort to speak with prosecutors about what he knows, particularly about the campaign.

Gates was Manafort's right-hand man for a decade, was privy to most, if not all, of Manafort's activities during the campaign and stayed in the Trump orbit after Manafort's exit. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.

The charges Gates is expected to plead to are conspiracy to commit to defraud the United States and making false statements.

Thursday, prosecutors described a "scheme" in which the two longtime business partners allegedly laundered $30 million, failed to pay taxes for almost 10 years and used real estate they owned to fraudulently secure more than $20 million in loans.

Gates said that despite his "initial desire to vigorously defend myself," he has had a "change of heart" in order to protect his family, according to a letter sent to his family and friends, obtained by CNN from a Gates friend.

"The reality of how long this legal process will likely take, the cost, and the circus-like atmosphere of an anticipated trial are too much," Gates wrote. "I will better serve my family moving forward by exiting this process."

He wrote that it was "difficult decision" to make, but that ensuring his family's "well-being is first and foremost."

"The consequence is the public humiliation, which at this moment seems like a small price to pay for what our children would have to endure otherwise," he said.

Last Friday, the special counsel produced grand jury indictments for 13 Russian nationals, accusing them of operating a misinformation campaign to hurt Hillary Clinton's presidential effort.

Gates has been in negotiations with Mueller's office for more than a month, and that Gates had spoken to prosecutors about his case since his indictment, CNN previously reported.

Defense lawyer Tom Green, who's handled the plea negotiation for Gates, told the court he'd represent Gates officially Thursday night, a strong indication that Gates was on the precipice of a plea deal with prosecutors. Gates' trial lawyers have now left the case.

Even as of yesterday, Gates' friends had tried to convince him not to plead guilty and sought for him a lawyer who would discount his cost, but Gates changed his mind.

Gates rejected several offers of a deal from the special counsel in recent days. Although at times this week a deal appeared to be off, talks were still continuing throughout Thursday until the deal was done, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Softball Bat wrote:Jay is crapping the bed... completely.

Wow.

Left Seater wrote:vanishing points.