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Does the Earth Really Move?

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Ebed-Yahweh

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Mestel said:
Tell me how a satellite trained to track one particular star not have to move (except for tiny corrections) if according to you they are rotating around a fixed Earth evry 23hrs 56 mins 4 sec.

Are you talking about the moon? I never said it didn't have to move. Anyway, please take the time to read through the following quotes and see if some of this doesn't make sense.




Also, I'm currently reading through a thread on the Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board. One of the posters (named Yannox) makes this interesting comment concerning Foucault's Pendulum:



Mestel said:
Same for the SOHO observatory looking at the Sun. How come it doesn't have to pan across the sky to keep up with a supposed orbiting Sun.

Why would the Soho observatory not have to make any adustments for the earth supposedly rotating at 1,000 mph?

Mestel said:
My advice is "lay off the crack!"
Which crack? The one in the unassailable edifice of the heliocentric model and the Satanic world system of sun worship?

REASON FOR EDIT: Forget to post the link for the BABB thread.
 
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If you think #5 in the list you quoted makes any sense you have not gotten out of elementary school yet. This is just bizarre nonsense.

What the heck is #6 even implying?


Are you even reading what I typed? What has a satellite tracking a star (such as Gravity Probe B got to do with the Moon? Why does the SOHO observatory have any connection to the Earth's rotation?


Would you explain the observed solar radial velocity changes due to Jupiter?

Would you explain why the Spitzer mission doesn't have to make silly motions due to the rotating stars when it is not in orbit around the Earth but is in orbit around the Sun?
 
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If you wanna be really pedantic, all of physics works just fine with arbitrary frames of reference. We can describe the whole universe as revolving around me, and it'll all work.

But... In any MEANINGFUL sense, we are indeed orbiting the sun.
 
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Mestel said:
If you think #5 in the list you quoted makes any sense you have not gotten out of elementary school yet. This is just bizarre nonsense.

Please explain why it is bizzare nonsense. I am interested to understand why this is so.

Mestel said:
What the heck is #6 even implying?

I think its saying that according to the heliocentric model the moon has to change the direction of its orbit at the start of every new month or lunar cycle, but I may be wrong.

Mestel said:
Are you even reading what I typed? What has a satellite tracking a star (such as Gravity Probe B got to do with the Moon? Why does the SOHO observatory have any connection to the Earth's rotation?

Yes, I read what you typed. I wasn't aware before that the SOHO observatory was a satellite which is said to orbit "L1 once every six months, while L1 itself orbits the sun every 12 months" according to Wikipedia.


I must admit that I don't yet have the technichal expertise to answer these questions. Perhaps you could answer these questions yourself if you bothered to study some concepts of the Geocentric model in any detail? But you automatically assume that what you have been taught is correct and refuse to reasonably consider any other options. How are you acting any differenty than a staunch evolutionary biologist who adamantly denies the possibility of intelligent design, or the Jew or Muslim who denies that Yahshua is the Christ based only upon the information they have been taught to believe is the truth, while neglecting to honestly investigate the other side?
 
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The truth about stellar parallax




Is it possible that NASA pre-programmed COBE to 'discover' the results it wanted in order to support the Big Bang Theory?

As for the star aberration, I need to do more research.

Here's another interesting website I just found:

Myths about the Copernican Revolution
 
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Is it possible that NASA pre-programmed COBE to 'discover' the results it wanted in order to support the Big Bang Theory?

Do you really think this is the way the world works? I mean really? It is really obscene to suggest this. Impossible to pull off anyway, but just the height of idiocy to even suggest it.

Where is this worldwide conspiracy of atheists? You would not only have to fix COBE but GONG and MAXIMA and WMAP etc etc. Pure nonsense.
 
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Back to your stellar parallax passage. What do you say to the fact that using modern interferometers we can directly image nearby stellar disks. Thus to say the stars are not at their derived parallax distances you have to invent new physics to explain their tiny diameters you would obtain by your method. The conventional diameters are backed up by several other methods anyway.

To explain things your way is a foolish path of inventing new physics or exceptions every step of the way.
 
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Exactly, you don't have the technical expertise. Some of us work in these areas for a living and what is more have the intelligence to investigate the claims. Yours are found wanting to say the least.
 
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Mestel said:
Exactly, you don't have the technical expertise. Some of us work in these areas for a living and what is more have the intelligence to investigate the claims. Yours are found wanting to say the least.

That's nice.

Oh, and it's not a world-wide conspiracy of atheists, but a world-wide conspiracy of fallen angels, demons, and satanists in whatever form they might take. NASA just happens to be a religious institution devoted to spreading the doctrines of Kabbalah and Freemasonry through black magic rituals, propaganda, and deceit.

It's interesting to note that in Hebrew, nasa means "to bear, carry, lift up; forgive; to be forgiven, honred, carried; to be carried off, lifted up; to cause to carry, to bring; to exalt oneself, lift up oneself (Strong's Concordance reference #5375). Kind of interesting, especially considering that space might be identified as "the second heaven" according to Biblical cosmology (the sky/atmosphere being the first and paradise/God's domain being the third). In Isaiah 14:14, Satan says, "14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."

Notice the title for God used in KJV Isaiah 57:15, "For thus saith the high and lofty [nasa] One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. "

So. is NASA and the Space Program actually just one big Virtual Reality deception? I believe they are.
 
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I knew it would come down to this in the end. Conspiracy theory.

When we get:

equivocation (or even association) of the English Acronym NASA with the Hebrew word nasa;
suggestion that the whole space program is a virtual reality simulation;
invention of occult shenanigans for which there is absolutely zero evidence;

we are most certainly in tin-foil hat country. Sorry.
 
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I don't have the technical expertise either (I was woefully perplexed in the latter years of my physics education!) but you seem to me to have proved Mestel's point admirably...
 
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Look. Lots of people will call you names over this. But... Here's the argument you should really think about.

NASA is a government agency.

Government agencies simply aren't competent enough to pull off the kind of thing you're talking about.
 
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PaladinValer said:
Oh yes; I'm a evil, Devil-worshipping Satanist out for blood and the minds of the world to pollute with my falsehoods of heliocentricism. Ooga-booga!

[/sarcasm]
Ah, have you been inducted into the ooga-booga club?
 
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Actually, I was just introduced to the the possibility of the Geocentric view being true less than a week ago. I had never really considered it before. I'm sure the idea seemed just as strange to me as anyone else who has read this thread. Ultimately, if the Acentric or Heliocentric models are true, then I could deal with it. However, if the Geocentric model could possibly be proven true, then it would change the world, so that is why I am interested in it at present. I've learned a couple of things about science and astronomy over the last few days that I didn't know before, so it has been a rewarding experience in any case.

Even though I do like the String theories, Brane theory, and holographic universe models which have been developed to help marry Relativity with Quantum Physics, I am seriously considering that General Relativity is false. There are serious scientists out there who reject it. You should check out Mathematical Magic
and the other webpage I quoted from concerning relativity earlier Einstein's Theory of Relativity - Scientific Theory or Illusion?.

The Electric universe model (also known as Plasma Cosmology) rejects Relativity and seems to be able to make physics operate without it. Also, some people believe that Dayton Miller was actually able to detect Ether Drift, although that that might mean the earth is moving even though it may help disprove General Relativity. I'm not sure about that one. Perhaps, if ether drift is true, it actually provides evidence for the universe rotating around the earth? Anyway, here's a link if you want to read more about that.

Dayton Miller's Ether-Drift
Experiments: A Fresh Look


For those who believe that it's absolutely insane or stupide or both to even consider geocentric or Geocentric models, here's a couple of good links:

Myths about the Copernican Revolution

Geocentrism Challenge

Why Geocentricity?

And here's an interesting quote of Malcolm Bowden from his THE BASIC SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS
FOR GEOCENTRICITY
webpage.

 
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thekawasakikid said:
Presumably it's also conceivable that Australians do stand on their heads and that the moon is also made of cheese?
Gee you northerners don't know anything do you, of course we don't stand on our heads. We actually hang upside down feet our feet. That's when were not winning gold medals in the swimming.

Martin

And do you realise how much trouble it is for me to write upside down so you can read it.
 
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