Re: Earth is Motionless Copernicus Is Wrong (HD and new audio)

The Earth is NOT motionless, and this guy deserves to be laughed at.

Along the way, we'll see how much lighter you are at the equator, how to extend the life of a satellite, and see a planet orbiting a sun-like star.

Here's the link to the Bad Astronomy page I mention: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/31/happy-new-year-arbi...

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Education

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• skeptic
• debunk
• Copernicus
• geocentrism
• geocentricity
• geocentric
• earth
• motionless
• universe
• creationist
• creationism

[ChickenHawk110]

C'mon. As if any American would have a mass of only 80kg.

[shanedk]

@ChickenHawk110 Um, 80kg is 175lbs. Perfectly reasonable.

[mastersman1]

what is gravity?

[shanedk]

@mastersman1 A curvature of space-time caused by the presence of matter. Any further answer will have to wait until the Higgs boson is detected (which may not be too much longer now!).

[TuxedoClam]

/watch?v=pHHpuRj8z8g < My question for the creationist crowd.

[shanedk]

@TuxedoClam Is the new version of MLP written by skeptics or something? I see all sorts of clips like that going around nowadays.

[shanedk]

@CT2507 "actually i agree with "this stupid guy" 's claim that Atheism is being pushed on people."

How and by whom?

"but he doesn't say that "people" don't want to be moral. that's your misunderstanding shanedk."

No, he said that--pretty much verbatim!

And it's ironic that you would accuse others of knowing nothing about morals while acting like a complete self-righteous jerk.

[shanedk]

@Lambrequin "If there wasn't life on earth, the continents wouldn't be colored green."

Sigh...see the follow-up. LOTS of things other than foliage are green, and there's no guarantee that foliage on any given planet will be green!

[warren52nz]

Even though a truck at the equator would weigh slightly less, its MASS would be the same so it would take the same amount of fuel to accelerate it. (There would be slightly less rolling resistance due to less tire flexing though. 8^)

Shane, good for you for not muddying the waters by pointing out that centrifugal force is a mathematical convention used to help understand physics but that it doesn't actually exist.

[david52875]

Wait a minute, he denies Newtons laws of motion but uses the equation for centripetal force?

I wonder what he put into that equation to get "twice less" weight at the equator?

[david52875]

This guy also thinks Newtons Third law of motion is incorrect. lol.

[TuxedoClam]

@shanedk Well, the show's creators don't make their positions clear on issues like these one way or the other. The reason you're seeing so many clips is, to put it simply, the show is insanely popular amongst adult males; as of right now, it's one of the biggest things on the Internet.

In fact, I highly recommend you watch an episode sometime. You might find that you actually enjoy it. =P