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The Earth is not flat.  That claim is a conspiracy theory perpetrated by ignorant people who have ulterior personal motives and agendas.

The Earth is a beautiful blue spheroid globe spinning on an axis 23.5° once each day, and orbiting the Sun every 365.25 days.

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jeranism (Jeran Campanella) - 5 Facts About EARTH You Didn't Learn in School


Dear jeranism (Jeran Campanella),


Fact check = You FAIL
All 5 of your "facts" are regularly discussed and taught correctly in school.

Human progress is built upon better understanding how our universe really functions. We strive to align ourselves with how the universe actually works, not how we want it to be due to our own personal agendas and motivations.

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Fact check = You FAIL #5
Motion and speed
"On January 1st the stars reset. And for all those 19.2 billion miles, the North Star, Polaris remains in the same spot. And no one has ever felt anything."

You are 100% wrong on all three counts;
your mileage, relationship to Polaris, and why no one has ever felt anything.

Fact...

The speed of the ground beneath your feet as a result of the Earth's rotation is: 1000 km/h (600 mph) at the north latitude of Sheffield UK. (53.3811 degrees); it goes up to 1670 km/h (1000 mph) at the equator.

The speed of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is 108,000 km/h (~70,000 mph), which means that our planet Earth travels 940 million km during a single orbit.
(70,000 mph time 8,760 hours/year = 613.2 million miles).

Our sun with its family of planets, moon, asteroid and comets – orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our sun and solar system move at about ~200 km/s (720,000 km/h, 450,000 mph) in this huge orbit.
(450,000 mph times 8,760 hours/year = 3.942 billion miles).

The Sun is moving upwards, out of the plane of the Milky Way, at a speed of 7 kilometers per second. Currently the Sun lies 50 light-years above the mid-plane of the galaxy, and its motion is steadily carrying it further away.

The Sun is moving towards the star Lambda Herculis at 20 kilometers per second or 12 miles per second

Fact...

As human beings, if our environment is moving with us (no matter how fast we travel) we don't feel speed, but we do feel acceleration/deceleration and when our direction changes.

We can't feel Earth's rotation or spin because we're all moving with it, at the same CONSTANT speed

When you're in an airplane traveling at 400mph do your feel that you are really moving? No you don't. You can get up from your seat and walk to the bathroom no problem

As long as no outside force is acting on a person, there is no sense of motion.

Earth's atmosphere is also traveling with us at the same exact speed.

We don't feel the Earth spin because the rate of spin is not changing (accelerating or decelerating).

Fact...

So what about the circular centripetal force?

Centripetal force is the force that an object feels when is in a circular motion.

Centripetal force wants to throw us off the Earth, but its countered by the force of gravity which is much stronger..

Because the rotation of the earth is very smooth and doesn't change, the centripetal acceleration we feel is very nearly constant. This means that the (small) centrifugal force from the rotation gets added to gravity to make up the "background force" we don't notice.

We can see that the centrifugal force at the Equator is 288 times weaker than the force of gravity. This is why we can't feel it.

Due to centripetal force at the equator you weigh a mere 0.25% less than at the poles.

If the Earth's rotation sped up so that one complete spin took 1-hour and 20-minutes, we would fly off the surface because the force of gravity could no longer hold us down - counteracting the centripetal force of rotation.

Fact:
The successful measurement of stellar parallax, due to the movement of the Earth in orbit around the Sun, proves that the Earth is moving thru space.

The parallax shift of about 2,500 stars have been successfully measured by telescopes on the Earth.

The parallax shift of nearly 1-billion stars has been measure by the GAIA satellite, stationed at the L2 Lagrange point.

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Fact check = You FAIL #4
Globe belief?

The accusation that you make in this section are all personal opinion. None are supported by human historical record.

a) Your statement, "Christopher Columbus did discover America, and proved the globe. But now they call that a myth."

You lie 100% again.

Who are THEY?
Show us the documentation that backs up your personal opinion.

Fact...

b) Eratosthenes did determine that the Earth was a sphere back in 240 BC. It is not a dream as you claim.

No one cares about your opinion. Your personal opinion and attempt to distort history does not change reality. It did happen.

You lie 100% again.

"Eratosthenes' Geography," the book
This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it today.
(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9182.html)

Eratosthenes made a surprisingly accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth. Details were given in his treatise "On the measurement of the Earth" which is now lost.

However, some details of these calculations appear in works by other authors such as Cleomedes, Theon of Smyrna and Strabo. Eratosthenes compared the noon shadow at midsummer between Syene (now Aswan on the Nile in Egypt) and Alexandria. He assumed that the sun was so far away that its rays were essentially parallel, and then with a knowledge of the distance between Syene and Alexandria, he gave the length of the circumference of the Earth as 250,000 stadia.
(http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Eratosthenes.html)

This fragment originates from Eratosthenes’ work “On the Measurement of the Earth”,
see [Roller, 2010, pp. 263–267]. According to this, Syene is located at the tropic of Cancer; thus, following F34, b0 = 16800 st is applied here.

Analysis of the latitudinal data of Eratosthenes and
Hipparchus
(https://www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/c/14/14-76.pdf)

PTOLEMY’S LONGITUDES AND ERATOSTHENES’ MEASUREMENT
OF THE EARTH’S CIRCUMFERENCE
(http://msp.org/memocs/2013/1-1/memocs-v1-n1-p04-s.pdf)

Cleomedes was a Greek astronomer who wrote an influential work: On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies.
Numerous manuscript copies were produced as were translations by Carolus Valgulius and Georgius Valla.

Theon was a Greek philosopher who described how prime numbers, geometrical numbers such as squares, progressions, music and astronomy are interrelated.

Strabo (born: about 64 BC, died: about 24 AD) was a Greek geographer and historian.

Fact... See our globe Earth spinning for yourself...

Take a look at this live feed from the DSCOVR satellite, streaming pictures of the Earth rotating 24/7 from its vantage point 1-million miles away in space.

Deep Space DSCOVR satellite (http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov)

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Fact check = You FAIL #3
Coriolis

I agree with your assertion that water in toilets and tubs do not (my insertion "necessarily") go down the opposite way in the southern hemisphere, BECAUSE...

Fact check = You FAIL
WATER DOWN THE DRAIN is an INVALID TEST of the Coriolis Force

As for water emptying down a drain, the amount of deflection produced by the Coriolis force is a couple orders of magnitude too small compared to other influences.

What is the Coriolis Force?
An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force ) acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation.

On the earth, the effect causes weather patterns (storms) to rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

If the Earth did not rotate, there would be no Coriolis Effect.

The actual paths of winds and of ocean currents, which are pushed by winds are partly a result of the Coriolis effect.

The Coriolis effect bends the westerlies and trade winds slightly clockwise in the northern hemisphere.

The Coriolis effect influences the global wind patterns and gives the United Kingdom its prevailing south-westerlies.

The Coriolis Effect can be seen in action in the general circulation of the atmosphere. The winds at all latitudes to the north of 0 degrees deflect to the right of their intended path in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Coriolis Effect does not impact the wind speed, only the wind direction.

The Coriolis Effect impacts objects on a large scale and does not generally have a big influence on small scale objects at the earth's surface. Though hurricanes are small scale compared to the overall globe, hurricanes need the Coriolis Effect to help develop the circular motion of their circulations. Tornadoes are not impacted by the Coriolis Effect because they are so small in scale and short in duration.

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Fact check = You FAIL #2
Spin of Earth

Your statement, "The spin of the Earth has never been proven."

You lie 100% again.

It has been proven many times. It's because of blind ambition that you chose not to accept reason and scientific evidence.

Hundreds of thousands of pictures of the Earth from distance space satellites and the Apollo missions have clearly shown our globe spinning.

Claiming those images are CGI is your cop-out. Just your personal mental block, refusal to accept reality.

21st Century technology proofs that the Earth rotates...

Earth’s rotation rate can be measured using various different methods. Modern geodetic techniques include:

1. Build a simple Foucault Pendulum and discover the truth for yourself. It's motion over a 24-hour period is because the Earth rotates.

2. The Coriolis Effect proves the Earth rotates.

3. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).

4. Satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)

5. Laser ranging to artificial Earth satellites of the Lageos or Starlette (Satellite Laser Ranging).

6. Earth remote sensing satellites like ERS1, ERS2 or TOPEX/POSEIDON and Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR).

7. Gyroscopes; accurate measurements of the Earth’s rotation rate can be obtained by using high quality gyroscopes, such as ring laser gyros (RLG) included in tactical grade inertial measurement units.

8. Surveying land over a distance greater than a few miles.

9. Construction engineering for span bridges (i.e., Golden Gate Bridge) over water.
Because of the curvature of the Earth, the towers are a little wider apart at the top than at the bottom

10. Airline flight navigation adjustments needed for the Coriolis affect.

Got that?

Fact check = You FAIL
The Michelson Morley experiment did not prove that the Earth was stationary, contrary to your claims...

You have completely misunderstood what the two scientists were doing, and why.

The experiment was designed to detect the presence of the aether, a substance believed to fill empty space.  The premise was that wave needed water, sound needed air, so light must also need a similar medium to propagate.  They named this medium the aether.   


Michelson Morley knew that the Earth was globe that orbited the Sun.  So if the Earth was orbiting the Sun and the aether was real the speed of the earth would create an either wind.  Like the wind outside of a moving car. 

Conclusion: The beams of light did not show any interference patterns and the only conclusion to come from that was that the aether did not exist.  

Because the experiment did not detect any aether wind, that does not mean the Earth does not move.

The Michelson Morley experiment searched for the "ether" a space-filling substance or field, thought to be necessary as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces.

Physicists since then have also not found the aether.

Better that you take a physics 101 class, instead of spreading your lies.

Michelson - Morley Experiment is best yet
https://physicsworld.com/a/michelson-morley-experiment-is-best-yet/


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Fact check = You FAIL #1
Seasons

Fact...
The seasons on the Earth are caused by the Earth's rotational inclination to its orbital plane (23.5 degrees) as it orbits around the Sun once each year.

All of your video commentary is incorrect. Deliberate lies.

No current flat Earth model simulates correctly/accurately how the seasons occur.

The Sun is not a flashlight that turns on and off.
The Sun and Moon do not circle each other 3,000 miles up in the sky.

Your attempt to cast doubt on established scientific and astronomy fact only highlight your own ignorance.

peace.

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Conclusion:

So after reading my post if you still believe your original 5 assertions, then you're just an irrational human block head.

Why do your perpetuate your lies?

What mission are you on?

In a few years you will be forgotten and all your work will have been for nothing.



Published on May 24, 2017
Discussion at -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ipUKERU0tzYFxALJBli4A/discussion

Video at..
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZYI_aTq5c)

kind regards, JonahTheScientist