petermac33 said...
You can believe till your last breath what you want/what they teach you to believe,aka man-made global warming.I will continue to believe the earth is motionless till i see evidence to the contrary. Getting into a technical discussion just clouds the debate,clearly the earth is still---period.
Some 'evidence to the contrary' eh?
If you get in any aeroplane and sit on the same heading according to the directional gyro, for every hour you follow it, it will be 15 degrees in error. So after 2 hours it will be up to 30 degrees off course, 4 hours will be 60 degrees off course so it will be hard not to notice.
No problem if you weren't going anywhere but big problem if you actually wanted to go in a straight line. You have to reset them every 15 minutes or so. Why is this?
It's because the earth rotates and the gyro always points to the same position in space, not the same position on earth. If the earth was motionless then the gyro procession would be close to zero and it would be random, this way or that way. All gyros process the same way depending on the hemisphere they are in, north or south.
It's not random and it's always 15 degrees per hour, which coincidentally is the rate of rotation of planet earth. (360 divide by 24) = 15 deg per hour)
This is NOT a coincidence. It is a proof of a scientific fact The earth rotates once every 24 hours..
The fact that the earth is spinning has been used to navigate ships for the last 100 years and still is, even in this day of GPS and everything else electronic.
A gyro compass relies on the spin of the earth to find true north. Not magnetic north but TRUE north. That is the northern point on the planet which lies on the axis on which the EARTH ROTATES. If the earth didn't rotate every gyro compass on every large ship would stop working. And even in this day and age of GPS it is still mandatory to have a gyro compass onboard large vessels for navigation.
You can look up gyro compasses on Wikicleverdick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GyrocompassThis is the device which was at the heart of the inertial navigation systems which we used to navigate nuclear subs, ocean liners and airliners. The science is good and it's reliable. You can take it that the earth DOES rotate.
If anyone can come up with an even half convincing proof that it doesn't could you let the world know before there are some serious collisions.