Kids Now Taught That Earth is a Fruit!
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"chuby's a good word, it's like pear shaped" -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson, NASA spokesman
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Actually, the bulge in the earth due to the centrifugal force of rotation makes the earth bulge slightly at its equator. Because the land masses of the northern and southern hemispheres are not equal, the earth gets a shape that is slightly like that of a pear. The amount of bulge difference is only about 5%, so it would barely be noticeable.
The Airy's failure experiment and the fact the Sun isn't overhead at midnight every 180 days is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Earth is not rotating or in motion. But please, do tell us about how you prefer to ignore these facts and believe that the Earth is like a fruit.
1) Wrongly interpreting Airy's failure isn't proof of anything except poor inference.
2) Lol @ sun not being overhead at midnight after ~1/2 year. It's probably a good idea to understand what you're arguing against before making a claim against it. After 1/2 year, the Earth is facing the other side of the sun having rotated halfway around it, oriented the other way in relation to the stars, explained by the cumulative difference between sidereal and solar time over the same period of time, which is ~12 hours. In other words, after 1/2 year a given location on earth is oriented the same way towards the sun, but is oriented the opposite way to the celestial sky (stars). We use solar time so day and night don't get screwed up. If we used sidereal time, only then would we have the problem you're suggesting.
1. Either the Earth is rotating or it's motionless and the stars are moving; Airy's failure experiment conclusively proves that it's the stars that are in motion.
2. A day has absolutely nothing to do with stars or sidereal time, the length of a day is 24 hours and involves only the Earth and the Sun; you've got no argument here.
3. Is your favorite animal also carrot?
1. No, all it did was show there is no ether drag. It implies one of two scenarios -- either ether doesn't exist, or ether is static with respect to the earth. If it's the latter, then it doesn't explain stellar abberation. On the other hand, what does explain stellar abberation? An earth that moves.
2. Read again until you get it. I even linked a video clip for you previously in this thread demonstrating exactly what is happening. We use solar time, so there is no reason why the sun would ever be up at midnight. You were confused by your own image which you posted pages back where it shows the earth oriented in the same direction no matter where it is located in it's orbit around the sun. That's not how it works. There is exactly one more sidereal day per year relative to solar days, meaning that after 1/2 sidereal year the earth is oriented in the opposite direction, but is still facing the sun. I understand if you have difficulty holding more than one concept in your head at a time and get pissed at those who can.
3. Do you like being dumb?
