One more dumb question bc I need help understanding. The following is copied straight from google search by scientific America. I asked how fast is earth moving through space. This is the answer:
It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all--whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour.
NOW, my dumb question is. How the heck do we take still pictures of a huge giant ball moving 490,000 miles per hr into the universe? Our satellites or whatever we use to take “pictures/video” would have to be so far away! Right? Like when we see an airplane moving 400 miles per hour way up in the sky. We are how far away? Now the size of earth is what and moving at the 490,000 miles per hr. How is that even possible? Please someone help me here
Moving at speeds Mach 88 and still seeing the same constellations every year in the same spots is all the proof we need.
Also, why isn’t the moon pulled around the sun with its magical gravity power?
Here’s my favorite. Sun is rocketing straight at around 500,000 miles per hour and the earth (that’s spinning around the sun at 66,600 mph) must speed up to 566,600 mph at times and then slow down other times. Never once do we feel any of these speed changes. Not once.
“Why isn’t the moon pulled around the sun with its magic gravitic power?”
Because the sun is 93 million miles away while the moon is 238000 miles away. Gravitational force is inversely proportional to distance squared, so the farther you’re away from something, the less force it exerts on you.
The sun and earth travel at those speeds relative to the center of the galaxy. You don’t feel speed changes because a). The changes are slow, and b) you don’t move relative to earth.
TL;DR: flat earthers don’t understand or flat out ignore relative motion.
One more dumb question bc I need help understanding. The following is copied straight from google search by scientific America. I asked how fast is earth moving through space. This is the answer: It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all--whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. NOW, my dumb question is. How the heck do we take still pictures of a huge giant ball moving 490,000 miles per hr into the universe? Our satellites or whatever we use to take “pictures/video” would have to be so far away! Right? Like when we see an airplane moving 400 miles per hour way up in the sky. We are how far away? Now the size of earth is what and moving at the 490,000 miles per hr. How is that even possible? Please someone help me here
Moving at speeds Mach 88 and still seeing the same constellations every year in the same spots is all the proof we need.
Also, why isn’t the moon pulled around the sun with its magical gravity power?
Here’s my favorite. Sun is rocketing straight at around 500,000 miles per hour and the earth (that’s spinning around the sun at 66,600 mph) must speed up to 566,600 mph at times and then slow down other times. Never once do we feel any of these speed changes. Not once.
“Why isn’t the moon pulled around the sun with its magic gravitic power?”
Because the sun is 93 million miles away while the moon is 238000 miles away. Gravitational force is inversely proportional to distance squared, so the farther you’re away from something, the less force it exerts on you.
The sun and earth travel at those speeds relative to the center of the galaxy. You don’t feel speed changes because a). The changes are slow, and b) you don’t move relative to earth.
TL;DR: flat earthers don’t understand or flat out ignore relative motion.