Illuminati ^^^^^

Mercury is tidally locked to the sun. It's so close and GRAVITY so strong that the same side of it faces the sun all the way round. Same with the earth and its moon.

Ooops.

It's not what changes the constellations month to month, it is what explains the apparent paradox you have presented. If the Earth took exactly 24 hours to rotate about its axis then we would experience what you suggested: that 12:00 noon on your clock would occur in the middle of the night during part of the year. But since in reality the Earth takes slightly less than 24 hours to rotate your clock stays roughly in sync with the day/night cycle throughout the Earth's orbit around the sun.

So it takes 4 years for things to get screwy and then we have a leap day?

Today's Google doodle seems especially apropos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Leap days are a separate thing to account for the fact that it takes slightly longer than 365 days for the Earth to complete an orbit around the sun. Nothing to do with sidereal vs. solar days.

Since the orbit of the earth around the sun is slightly off by about 1/4 of a day each year it's complied into one extra day every 4 years instead of 6 extra hours every year.

Would you mind telling me what this guy gets wrong, sorry about UTOOBIN but this is my understanding of the stars/sun/moon motions.

Are you saying whomever put that constellation in the sky is a Nazi sympathizer?

Also ignore that the swastika was used multiple times in history before the nazis by religious groups that weren't hellbent on the worst evils in human history

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/03/t...earth-is-flat/
I tought it was a good read. I looked for that kind article since I was wondering the nightmare moo's wife was living

Eddy,

Sounds about right.

Yeah I tought it was pretty insightful and it show you why you cannot reason with them.

In a thread with a huge amount of great posts, this might actually be my favourite lol

Turns out water does actually curve, who would've thought!

It's because most clocks (though not the sidereal clocks used by astronomers) measure solar time, relative to the Sun, and not sidereal time relative to the distant stars.

In the course of one rotation from noon to noon at a given location, the Earth moves about one degree around its orbit of the Sun. So when it completes that rotation relative to the distant stars, it still has to rotate one more degree (four minutes) before the Sun returns to the noon position. A sidereal day is that much shorter than a solar day. So unless you're an astronomer wanting to find the distant stars in the sky, you use a solar clock because a sidereal clock would be pretty confusing.

Please let me know what stinky cash got wrong. My observations line up with his...

Moon is slow, ergo the phases
Sun is steady, ergo my clocks work
Stars are quicker, ergo constellations change over the year.

I still don't get how the slightly faster rotation keeps things perfect year after year. Wouldn't time be even more screwed up after the entire year has passed? What happens after 3 or 30 years? wouldn't there be hours of lost time?

lol gizmodo

moo,

The units of time (24 hours in a day, one year in an orbit) are not things that exist independently that we use to measure how long a day or year lasts. Think about where the concept of time comes from.

The only conspiracy theory that I can think of, off the top of my head, that came out to be true was the government spying on us one.

Thanks econophile. That makes sense in regards to the sun being up at noon and the stars moving as the year goes on. I wonder if theres a .gif that shows the moon phases/orbit as well?

Did you guys watch stinkyCASHs vid?

Gizmodo is such a rag. Most people don't know crap about astronomy. Look how long it took before anyone here acknowledged that 12 noon should be on the dark side after 6 months. When I bring up the lunar cycle to people I see as the week goes on no one understands how the moon is visible during the day. I also recently learned that a high school in my area doesn't do interactive lessons on their space units. Students are given a few sheets to read, come back later and write a test. No questions and answers.

Did Natamus say that his understanding of history came from film school? That's very suspicious to me, as every movie begins with the image of the spinning ball earth. TV and Film is the strongest form of propaganda on earth.

not good enough. this is a stream of water. not a resting body. thanks, though. In other news



/flatearth? no

No one has because is nonsensical. I'm done.

wrong again

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