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Have you observed water finding it's curve in a cup...bathtub...pond...lake...ocean? Have you observed commercial jets landing at 180-200 knots on a landmass that mainstream "science" says is moving at roughly 1000 mph without an explosion? Have you ever tried jumping onto a merry-go-round after it's been spinning wildly?
Since your own personal observation of an airplane taxing down the runway has demonstrated to you that you're not going to run and grab the wheels just before take-off...what or who has convinced you that that airplane will be able to land at only 200 knots on a land mass that is moving at 1000 mph?
I can only assume you attended a rural American public school ... ?
Have you observed water finding it's curve in a cup...bathtub...pond...lake...ocean? Have you observed commercial jets landing at 180-200 knots on a landmass that mainstream "science" says is moving at roughly 1000 mph without an explosion? Have you ever tried jumping onto a merry-go-round after it's been spinning wildly?
Since your own personal observation of an airplane taxing down the runway has demonstrated to you that you're not going to run and grab the wheels just before take-off...what or who has convinced you that that airplane will be able to land at only 200 knots on a land mass that is moving at 1000 mph?
Since he directly answered the question you asked instead of answering his original question, why not honestly answer it noe? You claimed you would answer him if he answered a question from you and now all you are doing is asking even more question.
Since he directly answered the question you asked instead of answering his original question, why not honestly answer it noe? You claimed you would answer him if he answered a question from you and now all you are doing is asking even more question.
...sorry...my bad...lander. Yes, I know that the earth is not a spinning ball. It's stationary. If that offends everybody here...I meant no harm...just sharing what I know from my little white padded room. Does anyone know what time it is?
This is why religion is the bane of human progress. Thanks for exemplifying that.
No, we do NOT have to take basic 6th grade science on faith.
Never mind the fact that anyone who has flown in space can testify that we live on a spinning ball in space via personal observation, the mathematics bore this out.
And there ARE observations that prove we live in a heliocentric solar system. For instance, planets moving in retrograde motion can only be explained by earth being one planet among the rest orbiting the sun.
It's one thing to doubt the high level science that even the scientists admit hasn't been proven.
But telling everyone they have to take the "spinning ball orbiting the sun" type of science on "faith" is just patently wrong, not to mention absurd, and represents some of the worst kind of religious propaganda there is.
There's nothing like proposing arguments that *sound* reasonable on the surface because, unfortunately, a lot of people don't bother to think much about what they read. Thus religious people often "get away with" wonky logic like the kind you're using in your post. Those who understand the science, on the other hand, realize that the scientific method actually works. There is far more to orbital mechanics than your simplistic notion of it.
How do we know the earth is spinning? Well, never mind the fact that we have sunrises and sunsets, the fact that we have a spinning molten iron core proves it. How do we know that? Because the earth has a magnetic field. How do we know that? Because life exists which it couldn't if DNA was constantly being destroyed by cosmic rays, and the magnetic field protects us from cosmic rays and the solar winds. (There are other reasons why we know there's a magnetic field, as well).
And then there's parallax - the changing positions of the stars. We can tell the earth is orbiting the sun because the positions of the stars change ever so slightly as we move around our star. You DO know that the sun is a star ... right? Just making sure you don't have some bizarre "faith based" reasoning to doubt the sun is a star and not a huge yellow beach ball or something. Yes, you can measure the distance the star "moved" every 6 months when the earth is on the other side of the sun from when you made your initial measurement. Those two observations together will result in a "distance" that a star moved proving we are obiting the sun ... all with just observational data.
On and on it goes ... based on observational data.
Not faith.
Period.
Do you have a Sloth Stew recipe? Wouldn't want to see it go to waste.
Or...just grind it up and make sloth meatloaf.
...sorry...my bad...lander. Yes, I know that the earth is not a spinning ball. It's stationary. If that offends everybody here...I meant no harm...just sharing what I know from my little white padded room. Does anyone know what time it is?
Thank you for answering. Your answer does not offend, I think almost everyone else will disagree with you and your questions regarding the merry go round an airplane just indicates a lack of understanding of physics.
...sorry...my bad...lander. Yes, I know that the earth is not a spinning ball. It's stationary. If that offends everybody here...I meant no harm...just sharing what I know from my little white padded room. Does anyone know what time it is?
Why do you believe this garbage? It's not even a tenet of any religion that I know of.
Thus you can't even say that you believe it because of the Bible or God or whatever religion you subscribe to.
In effect, you're just buying into extraordinary ignorance -- why certain people seem attracted to crackpot belief systems is a mystery to me aside from wanting to be a Rebel Without A Clue: "Look at me, aren't I a cool anti-establishment person who isn't afraid to buck the system?"
Why not actually research the science behind a spinning earth, a heliocentric solar system, and why your suppositions are just plain wrong?
I'm sorry, but I do take offense at willful ignorance.
This is precisely the reason why I'm not optimistic about humanity's chances of survival in this universe. If we can't all agree on even something so fundamentally true and well established and proven as a heliocentric universe and a spinning earth, what's the point of even trying to fix the important issues like racism, bigotry, prejudice, and terrorism?
I have a recipe, sure ... but whenever I try to make it, I suddenly feel too slothful and end up vegging out on the couch.
Then just throw it in the backyard. A snack for some coyote or hawk.
But don't venture out too far...I wouldn't want you to fall off the edge of the Earth.
Ya gotta admit...this board has some wild stuff. Where else could you get "Flat Earth" declarations in 2017?! Whoo-Hoo!!
I'll do you one better, my new little friend...there is no time...
and there is no earth...
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