In December, the northern hemisphere of the Earth is tilted away from the sun and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it.
You could recreate this phenomenon with a basketball, your hands, and a heat source. Keeping one hand on one pole of the ball and the other on the other pole, tilt the ball (in either direction) towards the heat source and note which hand feels hotter and which feels colder.
Tilted at 66.6 degrees?
Does your one hand freeze and the other hand sweat? Think about it? A difference of 5000 miles from a source that’s 93 MILLION miles away. With this logic it should snow every night.
•It's a simple experiment at the small scale, so I don't experience hand freezing. If somehow I could put my hands on the Earth that way, then yes at one point one hand would freeze over on the winter side and the other hand would be warmer, although there's still ice around, melting from last year. It doesn't snow every night because sometimes there's no precipitation available.
•Ok, if a flat disc Earth (or even a globe Earth) measures 5,000 miles in diameter and the sun is 93 million miles away from it:
5,000mi/93,000,000mi = .00005376 = basically zero
The Earth would form the base of a very long isosceles triangle with the sun at the point. Then for a flat Earth (or stationary globe Earth) wouldn't the sun appear to never move, like Polaris (which is at an even longer isosceles triangle with the Earth), to us? Wouldn't we be able to see the sun 24/7/365 anywhere?
•If the sun was corkscrewing around up there to make the seasons, wouldn't it appear to change in size at least? Is it making figure-8s instead? In actuality, a time-lapse of the sun traveling across the sky shows what path?
•If you called up someone 12 hours ahead of you at 3pm your time, what would they be up to? You know.
•Why can't you see the Big Dipper at Perth, Australia? Why can't you see the Southern Cross in St. Cloud, MN? Do the stars corkscrew or figure-8 too? In actuality, a time-lapse of a starry sky shows the stars moving in what pattern?
•If the Earth was a torus, wouldn't traveling east-west would give off a different sensation than traveling north-south?
•What if for your entire existence you were living on a moving merry-go-round where the closest naked-eye objects away from it were your friends the satellites, ISS, and the Man in the Moon, who are all chasing you around the ride? Would you even know you were actually moving so fast? Is it simply because you were born into it? What would you feel if the ride came to a stop?
If you are riding a normal-sized merry-go-round at the fair, why is it you can sense better the movement and speeds on that one? Is it because it's on a much, much smaller scale and you've been on that ride for a very, very short amount of your life?
My research involved me traveling across the Earth. I've actually been to the Southern Hemisphere and seen the Southern Cross. One day I hope to visit Antarctica.
How exactly does the Sun move around a flat Earth then to make the seasons? All I see is that it makes an arc across the sky.
In December, the northern hemisphere of the Earth is tilted away from the sun and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it.
You could recreate this phenomenon with a basketball, your hands, and a heat source. Keeping one hand on one pole of the ball and the other on the other pole, tilt the ball (in either direction) towards the heat source and note which hand feels hotter and which feels colder.
Tilted at 66.6 degrees? Does your one hand freeze and the other hand sweat? Think about it? A difference of 5000 miles from a source that’s 93 MILLION miles away. With this logic it should snow every night.
•90° - 66.6° = 23.4°
•It's a simple experiment at the small scale, so I don't experience hand freezing. If somehow I could put my hands on the Earth that way, then yes at one point one hand would freeze over on the winter side and the other hand would be warmer, although there's still ice around, melting from last year. It doesn't snow every night because sometimes there's no precipitation available.
•Ok, if a flat disc Earth (or even a globe Earth) measures 5,000 miles in diameter and the sun is 93 million miles away from it:
5,000mi/93,000,000mi = .00005376 = basically zero
The Earth would form the base of a very long isosceles triangle with the sun at the point. Then for a flat Earth (or stationary globe Earth) wouldn't the sun appear to never move, like Polaris (which is at an even longer isosceles triangle with the Earth), to us? Wouldn't we be able to see the sun 24/7/365 anywhere?
•If the sun was corkscrewing around up there to make the seasons, wouldn't it appear to change in size at least? Is it making figure-8s instead? In actuality, a time-lapse of the sun traveling across the sky shows what path?
•If you called up someone 12 hours ahead of you at 3pm your time, what would they be up to? You know.
•Why can't you see the Big Dipper at Perth, Australia? Why can't you see the Southern Cross in St. Cloud, MN? Do the stars corkscrew or figure-8 too? In actuality, a time-lapse of a starry sky shows the stars moving in what pattern?
•If the Earth was a torus, wouldn't traveling east-west would give off a different sensation than traveling north-south?
•What if for your entire existence you were living on a moving merry-go-round where the closest naked-eye objects away from it were your friends the satellites, ISS, and the Man in the Moon, who are all chasing you around the ride? Would you even know you were actually moving so fast? Is it simply because you were born into it? What would you feel if the ride came to a stop?
If you are riding a normal-sized merry-go-round at the fair, why is it you can sense better the movement and speeds on that one? Is it because it's on a much, much smaller scale and you've been on that ride for a very, very short amount of your life?
Not enough time to respond to these ramblings. Do your research pal.
My research involved me traveling across the Earth. I've actually been to the Southern Hemisphere and seen the Southern Cross. One day I hope to visit Antarctica.
How exactly does the Sun move around a flat Earth then to make the seasons? All I see is that it makes an arc across the sky.