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.
Centrifugal forces do not fling things off the earth because of… wait for it… gravity!
Why do flat earthers not stop to think about these things? Rule #1 of physics is to consider ALL forces that are in play, not just the ones you like or think support your theory.
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.
And the fact at that speed centrifugal force must be extreme, yet water rains down while bodies of water aren't flung off.
None of it "holds water" when you break all the various aspects down that support this narrative.
Centrifugal forces do not fling things off the earth because of… wait for it… gravity!
Why do flat earthers not stop to think about these things? Rule #1 of physics is to consider ALL forces that are in play, not just the ones you like or think support your theory.