I have read the gravity section on Expose Giraffes twice and the replies I find keep arguing about whether people have seen one. That is not what the section is asking.
They are saying the animal is built the wrong way for the surface it stands on. A picture of it standing there does not explain how it stays there.
If we were to entertain the potentiality of the modern Flat Earth consensus, the question arises as to whether the center of gravity of a giraffe in nature would warrant a threat to its survival by natural selection through the expected pull off the surface as a result of its collective weight distribution and gravitational drag off of its surface.
I have read the gravity section on Expose Giraffes twice and the replies I find keep arguing about whether people have seen one. That is not what the section is asking.
They are saying the animal is built the wrong way for the surface it stands on. A picture of it standing there does not explain how it stays there.
−+Collapse or expand reply by rustred
People answer this with pictures of horses as though a horse has the same amount of neck above it.
−+Collapse or expand reply by metricsea
You need to include the legs too. That is where most of the height comes from.
−+Collapse or expand reply by wrenched
Yes. The whole thing. I am not just comparing necks.
−+Collapse or expand reply by sidechannel
The original page never says which direction the pull is supposed to be. It would help to draw it.
−+Collapse or expand reply by wrenched
Off the surface. It says that in the paragraph.
−+Collapse or expand reply by nailbrush
That can mean over the edge or straight up. Those are different questions.
−+Collapse or expand reply by linen
It says IF. You can disagree with the flat-earth part without pretending I missed the word.
−+Collapse or expand reply by sidechannel
I copied the whole paragraph. I am asking about the direction.
−+Collapse or expand reply by brickwork
If it has to spread its legs to get water, I do not see why we assume it has no balance problem when it is standing.
−+Collapse or expand reply by cansleeve
Because bending down changes where its weight is.
−+Collapse or expand reply by brickwork
That is the issue I am talking about.
−+Collapse or expand reply by flatlander
Their problem is using gravity to explain it. The ground does not need to pull anything for an object to stay on it.
−+Collapse or expand reply by nailbrush
Then why is the height relevant?
−+Collapse or expand reply by flatlander
I did not write the page. I said the explanation was wrong.
−+Collapse or expand reply by halfstep
Was there an image on the old page showing where they put the weight? I remember something beside this and cannot find the same copy.
−+Collapse or expand reply by marl
If the earth is not flat, the flat-earth part of this is not a problem a giraffe has to solve.
−+Collapse or expand reply by wrenched
Fine, but that still does not explain the animal in the pictures.
−+Collapse or expand reply by marl
It was your question about this paragraph.