Brown's demolition of the myth that medieval people believed in a flat Earth is especially welcome.
布朗戳穿了中世纪人所认为地球是平坦的神话，这一点特别受到人们的欢迎。
Man's theories, in any case, are so far from reality that it makes the Flat Earth theory look elevated.
无论如何，这不是人类的理论，而且与现实相距如此之远，以至于它使平淡的地球理论看起来仿佛变得崇高无比了。
The Flat Earth Society has become a byword for sticking your head in the sand, whatever the scientific facts.
现在，这个“平坦地球协会”俨然是无视科学、固步自封的代名词了。
One prime reason is simply that we live in an increasingly "flat earth" world where business is a 24 hour a day proposition.
最首要的原因是我们所处的地球变得信息扁平化了，商务往来24小时不间断。
The Flat Earth Society was originally formed as the Universal Zetetic Society in 1884, after the Greek word zeteo, "to seek".
平坦地球协会的前身是1884年成立的世界探究协会（Universal ZeteticSociety），zetetic源自希腊语zeteo，意为“探寻”。
The website features scanned issues of the society's newsletter, the notorious Flat Earth News, from its 1970s and 80s heyday.
网站上提供协会内部通讯的电子版—那份不怎么光彩的《平坦地球简讯》，都是上世纪七八十年代鼎盛时期刊发的。
Yes, that Flat Earth Society, a group that has become a living metaphor for backward thinking and a refusal to face scientific facts.
就是这个什么平坦地球协会，已经成了无视科学、认知倒退最鲜活的例子了。
No, this the churnalism so wonderfully detailed in the Guardian journalist Nick Davies's obituary of the newspaper industry, Flat Earth News.
不，在《卫报》记者尼克.戴维斯关于报纸产业的讣告---《平地球新闻》中，对这样的伪记者有精彩详细地描述！
However, present sensitivity equations are limited to orthorhombic side-glance interferometric geometry based on the wave plane model and the flat earth model.
目前的灵敏度方程局限于正侧视干涉几何关系，且建立在电磁波波前的平面波模型、地球表面的平地模型基础上。
Critics of the Flat Earth Society say that its members simply deny any evidence that conflicts with their world view without offering real alternative hypotheses.
地平协会的批评家说，该协会的成员只是简单地否认任何与其世界观相悖的证据，却不提供任何其他假说来解释这些证据。
Such statements are impossibly naïve and represent the same kind of thinking that had mankind committed to the Flat Earth theory for ages - stubborn and narrow minded.
这种话是无法想象的天真，代表了同样一种态度---人类曾致力于扁平地球理论达好几个世纪---这是顽固又思维僵化狭隘的表现。
"There is no unified flat Earth model, " Shenton suggests, "but the most commonly accepted one is that it's more or less a disc, with a ring of something to hold in the water.
“尽管平坦地球论还没有公认的模型，”珊顿说，”但为多数人接受的观点认为，地球形状是个圆盘，并且在水中托着一圈某种东西。
Last year, Shenton did just that, travelling to a six-mile stretch of straight water along the Old Bedford River in Norfolk, the scene of many infamous flat Earth experiments.
去年他去了趟诺福克的老贝德福德河，以前平坦地球协会做过的很多试验都是在那进行的，他选的那段河流很直，长有6英里。
So, this paper presented a new baseline estimation method based on the principle of INSAR, which used the phases of flat earth. Two types of data were used to do experiments.
针对这种情况，从INSAR的基本原理入手，提出了一种新的利用平地干涉相位进行初始基线估计的方法。
Gaffes are rare in Mr Morgan's sober and balanced account, although a few slip through, such as the claim that myths (flat earth included, presumably) always have some basis in reality.
摩根先生冷静节制且恰如其分的叙述中鲜有纰谬，尽管还有些许难以避免，例如他声称神话(大概也包括扁平的地球)总是具有某些现实的根基。
Adjusting the filter parameters according to the local topography, the adaptive filter performs better than the fixed bandwidth non-adaptive one designed through flat earth phase estimation.
由于滤波器参数随地形进行调整，其性能优于仅仅依赖轨道参数或平坦地球相位估计的固定带宽非自适应滤波器。
It was the late 1990s and I started doing research into what the Flat Earth Society was. I had heard of it and, when I did some more research, I eventually ended up believing its ideas were true.
珊顿回忆：“那时候是90年代末，因为我在之前听说过有这么个平坦地球协会，就着手研究他们究竟是怎么回事，我最终认定他们的观点是正确的。”
For the first time in three weeks I am alone, driving from Windhoek toward the Namib Desert beneath a ubiquitous blue sky, its presence above the savannah creating the illusion of a flat, wide Earth.
三个星期以来我第一次独自开车从温得赫克驶往纳米布沙漠。蔚蓝的天空笼罩着大地，无树草原在蓝天下产生一种地面又平又宽的假象。
In some cases, it is perfectly acceptable to assume a flat model of the Earth and lose some accuracy in exchange for speed.
在一些情况下，完全可以采用平面地球模型，通过牺牲一些精确性来获取速度。
At one point, the great minds of Western Europe firmly believed the Earth was flat.
曾经，西欧最伟大的头脑坚定地认为地球是平的。
He and the members of his society continued to support the idea that the Earth is flat and that those who disagree are part of a conspiracy to keep the truth about the Earth hidden.
他和该协会的其他成员继续支持地平说，还说不同意他们观点的人参与了阴谋来隐藏关于地球的这一实情。
You take a deep breath and say, “I am here because I had an epiphany in which I saw, clearly, that the earth is not flat.
你深吸了一口气说道：“我在这儿是因为我看到了灵光，看到了地球不是平的。
On our spherical Earth, gravity pulls "down" us toward the planet's center of mass. So on a flat surface, we naturally stand up straight.
在我们地球上，重力会把我们拉向星球的质量中心，因此在平坦的地表，我们自然站得很直。
The Lizard Peninsula is a flat elevated promontory that hosts the world's largest satellite earth station (Goonhilly Down) as well as RNAS Culdrose, a vast naval air station.
利扎德半岛是一块隆起的海角，地势平整，上有世界最大的Goonhilly Down卫星地面站和规模巨大的英国皇家海军航空兵站。
Maps (on paper or on the screen) are flat surfaces; they require a transformation from the curved surface of the earth to the flat plane: a map projection.
纸上或屏幕上的地图是平面的；它们需要从地球的曲面向平面进行转换：地图投影。
In general, if a man says, for instance, that the earth is flat, I am quite willing that he should propagate his opinion as hard as he likes.
一般而言，例如一个人说地球是平的，那么我很乐意他如其所愿的那样努力去传播其观点。
For the purposes of this article, I will demonstrate distances using the flat-Earth model and the great-circle distance and leave the rest to you to explore.
但是为了实现本文的目的，我将使用平面地球模型和大圆弧长距离来演示距离，其他方法留给读者探索。
For the purposes of this article, I will demonstrate distances using the flat-Earth model and the great-circle distance and leave the rest to you to explore.
但是为了实现本文的目的，我将使用平面地球模型和大圆弧长距离来演示距离，其他方法留给读者探索。
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