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I've been looking at the planets for years with my own telescopes. What in the world are you talking about?There are no planets. The earth is not a planet. And what you think are planets are wondering stars.
I've been looking at the planets for years with my own telescopes. What in the world are you talking about?
Link don't work"I’ve been getting lots of tweets and email from folks linking to a slick-looking video, a computer animation showing the motion of the planets around the Sun as the Sun orbits around the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s a very pretty video with compelling music and well-done graphics.
However, there’s a problem with it: It’s wrong. And not just superficially; it’s deeply wrong, based on a very wrong premise. While there are some useful visualizations in it, I caution people to take it with a galaxy-sized grain of salt.
Why? The basis of the claim is that the planets aren’t orbiting the Sun heliocentrically, but are instead a vortex going around the galaxy.
Normally I wouldn’t bother debunking stuff like this; wacky claims are made all the time and usually disappear on their own. But in this case I’m getting a lot of people telling me about it, so clearly it’s popular—probably because it seems superficially right, and it has very nice graphics. I’m also seeing it spread around by people who do understand science, but missed the parts of it that are way off. With stuff like this, it always pays to dig a little deeper.
So let’s break out the shovels."
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Viral Video Showing Sun’s “Vortex” Motion Is Wildly Inaccurate
I’ve been getting lots of tweets and email from folks linking to a slick-looking video, a computer animation showing the motion of the planets around...slate.com
Not planets dude, how many times I gotta.....
@RoadRage can you explain to me where this MIT Professor went wrong??? Because Gravity is real right???
So what are they? Do you consider them actual physical objects?They are not planets, just like the moon, they are not places you can go to.
So what are they? Do you consider them actual physical objects?
This does not imply that gravity does not exist, only that it's far weaker than the other fundamental forces over small scales. That's not in doubt by any serious scientist. He's showing that the force of gravity between two charges with tiny masses is insignificant compared to the electrostatic force between them.
We, along with all matter in this known realm are inside of an electrostatic field. The earth itself has a negative electric charge compared to the air above it, all across the plane. As soon as you leave the surface there is a positive charge in the air around you that grows in electrostatic potential the further you go up towards the sky. It is a steady, gradual rise in potential which tells us, according to the laws of electricity that we are in between 2 Gaussian surfaces. A Gaussian surface is simply a surface that encloses or distributes a charge. If there were only one surface, the rate at which the positive potential grew would be different. Knowing that we are between 2 Gaussian surfaces we can also know that certain phenomena will take place in all matter within the electric field or area, between the 2 surfaces.
Polarization Through Electrostatic Induction
Electrostatic induction is a phenomenon where the positive and negative static charges on matter are slightly separated or polarized, due to the electrostatic charge of it’s surrounding area. If one set of the object’s surroundings is positive and the other is negative, the negative charge on the object will be attracted to the positive area around it, while the positive charge on the object will be attracted to the negative area on the opposite side. So here on Earth, the positive side on our bodies is always attracted DOWN, towards the earth and the negative will be attracted to the air above. This phenomena creates a slight force in that downward vector because as soon as we leave the ground we start becoming positively charged by the air around us and are now forced towards the negative on the ground. This is electrostatic acceleration. One might think that the attraction from above and below would cancel out completely but it’s the electrostatic gradient that creates a flow from the positive above to the negative below.
In the absence of density and buoyancy, that small force you think is gravity is indeed static electricity. The earth’s negative charge establishes the downward force. And like I said, this applies on a flat or globe earth.
Hey watch this rocket crash into the firmament
This is the dumb propaganda I am talking about.
Either your ignorant ass is so dumb to not know what a de=spinner is or you do know and you are lying.
Even if you didn't know, common sense should have told you that a rocket would have exploded hitting a glass wall.
But just in case you are still scratching your head, here is a brief explanation of what a rocket yo-yo de=spinner is.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Animation showing a PAM-D with the Phoenix spacecraft. The stage is successively spun, fired, yo-yo de-spun and jettisoned.
A yo-yo de-spin mechanism is a device used to reduce the spin of satellites, typically soon after launch. It consists of two lengths of cable with weights on the ends. The cables are wrapped around the final stage and/or satellite, in the manner of a double yo-yo. When the weights are released, the spin of the rocket flings them away from the spin axis. This transfers enough angular momentum to the weights to reduce the spin of the satellite to the desired value. Subsequently, the weights are often released.[1]
De-spin is needed since some final stages are spin-stabilized, and require fairly rapid rotation (now typically 30-60 rpm; some early missions, such as Pioneer, rotated at over 600 rpm[2]) to remain stable during firing. (See, for example, the Star 48, a solid fuel rocket motor.) After firing, the satellite cannot be simply released, since such a spin rate is beyond the capability of the satellite's attitude control. Therefore, after rocket firing but before satellite release, the yo-yo weights are used to reduce the spin rates to something the satellite can cope with in normal operation (often 2-5 RPM).[3] Yo-yo de-spin systems are commonly used on NASA sub-orbital sounding rocket flights, as the vehicles are spin stabilized through ascent and have minimal flight time for roll cancellation using the payload's attitude control system.[4]
As an example of yo-yo de-spin, on the Dawn spacecraft, roughly 3 kilograms (6.6 lb) of weights, and 12-metre (39 ft) cables, reduced the initial spin rate of the 1,420-kilogram (3,130 lb) spacecraft from 46 RPM to 3 RPM in the opposite direction.[5] The relatively small weights have a large effect since they are far from the spin axis, and their effect increases as the square of the length of the cables.
Yo-yo de-spin was invented, built, and tested at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[6]
Yo-yo hardware can contribute to the space debris problem on orbital missions, but this is not a problem when used on the upper stages of earth escape missions such as Dawn, as the cables and weights are also on an escape trajectory.
Yo-weight[edit]
Sometimes only a single weight and cable is used. Such an arrangement is colloquially named a "yo-weight." When the final stage is a solid rocket, the stage may continue to thrust slightly even after spacecraft release. This is from residual fuel and insulation in the motor casing outgassing, even without significant combustion. In a few cases, the spent stage has rammed the payload.[7] By using one weight without a matching counterpart, the stage eventually tumbles. The tumbling motion prevents residual thrust from accumulating in a single direction. Instead, the stage's exhaust averages out to a much lower value over a wide range of directions.
In March 2009, a leftover yo-weight caused a scare when it came too close to the International Space Station.[8]
Watch Cashwhisper try to insult, lie about posting an explanation, or try to change the subject with another stupid meme.
Also in the video there what you show is the rocket exhaust expanding due to the air pressure getting thinner and thinner the higher you get in space. This is due to our planet having an air pressure gradient, when on land the pressure is at one level but the higher you go the thinner it gets. It gets thinner and thinner until it's a vacuum, never is there a high pressure next to a pure vacuum.
And now for the Death Blow.@cashwhisperer
Flat earthers scam exposed!!!!
Not only is flat earth scam, but so-called debates with them (including this one) aren't debates at all, at least not to them. Because every time a flat earther talks about flat earth it becomes a recruiting opportunity. Even if they aren't trying to change the mind of the person they are debating or talking to, they are always actively trying home into their target audience, the skeptic scientific illiterate guy who thinks the word is trying to trick them.
I am going to tell you how they do it then show some real-time examples of them doing it.
1- They love to do Gotcha questions, hoping you don't know the answer to them, so they can come off as smarter than you. If you answer the question correctly they will quickly change the subject and move on to the next question. Their goal here is to try to get you or their target audience mixed up while avoiding the evidence you are presenting.
2 Like example one they never answer questions they know they cannot answer. All you have to do to see this is look back in at this thread when I rapidly asked Cashwhiperer simple questions like
1- What are the mechanisms that keep up and move the sun and the moon on a flat pizza
2- If gravity is fake how do gravimeters work
3- what causes of both the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis
4- Explain lunar and solar eclipses on a flat earth.
5- Why does the sun set button first while being obstructed by the Earth?
6- Why do all airline pilots use the haversine formula (the great circle) for all flight planning?
7- If no gravity what is causing Jupiter and Saturn's moons to orbit those planets, something I and many others have seen with telescopes?
8- If we live under a dome where do asteroids and meteors come from?
9- If gravity is fake how do we calculate buoyancy (for example whether or not a ship can float) without using the buoyancy equation that use gravity as a variable?
10- Why does the Mage2 video of a weather balloon going into the edge of space, with a rectilinear lens and reference straight strings to control any barrel distortion clearly show the curvature of the Earth yet there are no non-fish eye lens photos showing flatness.
Instead of answering these, they would change the subject, usually with a dumb question or meme, for example, they would say something like, how come the Markison and Morley experiment proves a stationary non-moving earth? Knowing damn well that particular experiment never tried to measure the motion of the planet, but rather the existence of the either or the notion that light needs a medium like sound to propagate.
What usually happens is that the argument is moved away from the subject that destroys flat earth onto something harder to debunk.
But if you can, you best believe they will do the same technique so they can change the subject yet again.
Watch as dude repeatedly try to change the subject by asking one jackass question after the other in real-time.
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Do you ever notice flat earthers never give measurements? Or maybe you are on the other side of the fence wondering, what's the big deal about measurements? Well here's what's up, you need measurements to falsify or prove something wrong, and being that science doesn't prove things right, we need precise measurements to see if it can be falsified, and if it cannot be falsified then it moves closer to becoming a scientific theory (which is not to be confused with the colloquial definition of a theory, which is more or less a guess).
So a big part of the flat earth grift is never giving any measurements such as (the size of the moon, earth, and sun, the distance of the moon, sun, firmament, the speed of the moon, sun, and dome, nor do they give the mechanisms to how any of those things move.
The reason why they do this is to protect them from getting debunked.
Meanwhile, science gives you precise measurements to size, distance, and speed, to which the flat earthers try to poke holes in, to the point that they are now focussing on dark matter, stuff they would have to make up if they were lying, all would have to do is lie about the motion of the universe (that according to them doesn't exist) and create on that doesn't need dark matter and energy for it to work.
The fact they not only give you measurements of our planet, sun, moon, other planets, stars, other moons, and even movement of other solar systems and galaxies, shows that they aren't afraid to give measurements about everything.
So in the end, you can listen to a jailhouse lawyer who admits to getting his information from the Universe (guess that's what they call crack these days, or from people who actually studied and learned physics, mathematics, and science. And if you choose to still become a flat earther, after rejecting all the evidence, then stay right where you are at, because my job is the help people on the fence understand the flat earth grift, not to make retarded people normal!
As far as Cashwhiperer goes thanks for being as stupid as you are, because your dumbness is so apparent, that everyone here can see you don't know shit, and the comments here all reflect that. Now that I got that out of the way, I'm going to put your dumb ass back on ignore the only way you can talk to me again is if you can somehow find some real evidence or real scientific experiment that can answer the simple questions I just asked.
Told you it would not end well for you! buy-buy Dummy Boy!!!!
That dumb shit you posted about de-spin takes the cake for me. I do not agree with you AT ALL.
This is what de-spin is designed to do, which is something entirely different than what was demonstrated in the video of the rocket hitting the firmament.
And the video you posted trying to NASAsplain the water in the sky, showing those graphics of the rocket pooting out spray!!
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Nigga you are STOOPID!!!
Look @RoadRage, I don't give a fuck about being an evangelical for flat earth. I do however find it crazy and fascinating how indoctrinated you and your buddies are when it comes to accepting any and everything NASA tells you, I mean blatant CRAZY shit like this video here:
AND YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT SCAMS??? SCAMS NIGGA????
You actually keep defending this bullshit here even though you niggas get awfully quiet and CHANGE THE SUBJECT when I hit you with something that you CAN'T defend because deep down YOU KNOW it's some bullshit.
Cult is a term, in most contexts pejorative, for a relatively small group which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader, who tightly controls its members, requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant. Wikipedia
I'm part of no cult. There is no charismatic and self-appointed leader of flat earth. I followed the science that I was taught and became BAFFLED when I found out it didn't match up with reality. I don't PUSH flat earth on anybody. Most of the time I don't even think about it. You got me totally bent. I'M BAFFLED NIGGA!!! I'M BAFFLED AT THIS GLOBE SHIT!!
Still I ask, why can you see further than you are supposed to, especially with infrared cameras if there's supposed to be curvature?? You duck and dodge questions like that.
Death Blow???
You BIG DUMMY!!
And your stupid ass trying to tell everybody I was going to call you stupid and post memes....you were absolutely right!! Here's one now!
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I'd love for them to use those powerful satellites to zoom all the way in to show upside down buildings and people in REAL TIME! Don't you think we have the tech to do that??? Call your NASA buddies and demand they ZOOM IN!!
I bet yall hate Eddie Griffin too now, huh?? Yeah FUCK Eddie!!!
"Flat earth is REAL" - Eddie Griffin
You done fucked up now nigga!!!
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Yeah nigga, put me on ignore! Cuz I'm ABOUT to go on a meme posting spree, slamming you with FACT after FACT after muthafuckin' FACT!!
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Man I’m learning more and more bout the ancient people of Mexico
Man I’m learning more and more bout the ancient people of Mexico
Olmecs, so Teotihuacán was already there when the Aztec people showed up
The Olmec knew about the movements of Venus, earth, the moon, sun
I remember being at Teotihuacán I got to speak with a professor who works the site, I asked him did the Aztecs build it, he said na they just build on top of it,
Who taught the olmecs? that african sailed to Mexico, in that region of Mexico The darkest Mexicans live. my moms dads people are from there, her moms people left Cuba and naturally went to where other dark people were in the Veracruz region
Makes so much sense tho.
Like my home built in the 50s, I found the original tile in bath, this pink hard tile(first owner) , another tile was just laid over it( second owner) and a third tile the guy I bought it from, then I removed all of it and put my own shit
That’s what we do as people
The overwhelming scientific consensus, supported by extensive evidence from multiple fields including astronomy, geology, physics, and satellite imagery, is that the Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning it is mostly spherical but slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator due to its rotation.
Because of katts like you fam...So why don't you ever SEE an oblate spheroid in the "pictures" they show you of the earth??
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And why aren't the other "planets" oblate spheroids???
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LMBAOOOOOOThey are not planets, just like the moon, they are not places you can go to.
Actually, the Sun and all the planets are oblate spheroids. The Earth is about 20 miles wider Equatorially than Pole to Pole, about a 0.3 percent difference. This can be measured but is too small to see visually. Jupiter has a 7% difference, which is noticeable visually.So why don't you ever SEE an oblate spheroid in the "pictures" they show you of the earth??
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And why aren't the other "planets" oblate spheroids???
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Actually, the Sun and all the planets are oblate spheroids. The Earth is about 20 miles wider Equatorially than Pole to Pole, about a 0.3 percent difference. This can be measured but is too small to see visually. Jupiter has a 7% difference, which is noticeable visually.