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This is the least of this guy's misunderstandings -- (link)
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by
Reagen
I don't understand his problem with seeing Venus and Mercury -- nm
Posted by
crash davis (aka crash davis)
May 3 '17, 13:41
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Responses:
Willful misunderstanding of the astronomical unit. -- nm
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Beryllium
May 3, 13:45
The "logic" of it is that if they are between us and the sun, how can they be seen at night, as if they are always directly between
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Reagen
May 3, 13:45
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i don't understand how they think the sun works *at all* if we were flat. -- nm
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Andie
May 3, 13:49
11
I feel dumber for having looked but the sun is a "spotlight" rotating around the north pole
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oblique
May 3, 13:55
7
Ahhhh. So obvious. The earth does not need to spin for gravity since we are standing on a flat plane. -- nm
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VMan
May 3, 13:57
3
The spinning of the Earth isn't why there's gravity.
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Reagen
May 3, 14:01
2
Been a while. Forgot. But doesn't the spin help correct for the curvature or something? -- nm
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VMan
May 3, 14:07
So, if the earth was round and actually spinning we'd fly off? -- nm
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.
May 3, 14:04
What is The North Pole, then? -- nm
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Beryllium
May 3, 13:56
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And how does the spotlight theory work when demonstrated on a piece of paper? -- nm
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Beryllium
May 3, 13:57
The center of the universe? -- nm
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VMan
May 3, 13:57
As I recall, the sun would be like a shaded lamp hovering over our spinning disc world. -- nm
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VMan
May 3, 13:51
It's just on a dimmer. -- nm
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pmb
May 3, 13:51
The Truman Show, I guess? -- nm
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Beryllium
May 3, 13:50
oh, because on a globe we are facing away form the sun at night....I got his madness here now - thanks -- nm
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crash davis
May 3, 13:48
(and of course you mostly can't see them at night)
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Reagen
May 3, 13:47
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