[honest to goodness stationary geocentrist]
1. The bible would classify Galileo as a fool.
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1: The early Church did.
I will stick to science. The Earth spins.
1. Probably. Unfortunately, the Bible's opinion of Galileo is independent of physical reality. Imagine if it weren't, that we could for instance call Alexander Graham Bell an idiot and suddenly all the phones would stop working.
2. Yeah, just like we're forced to do that on merry-go-rounds.
3. Indeed.
4. Yeah. No.
Note how the numbering seems to imply this guy is attempting a logical syllogism. He pulls it off with about as much skill as a frog solves differential equations.
I will stick with God, the earth is not spinning.
So the DirecTV satellites are just hovering up there by anti-gravity? Or maybe they're on really, really long poles? And how about SN1987A? It's been measured by triangulation at 170,000 light years away. That means if I've done my arithmetic right, it's traveling at 400 million times the speed of light. Plus I suppose Foucault's pendulum precesses by magic?
That's probably why the neandertals died out, if they were prone to invent silly things like cartwheels, instead of wheels for a cart.
Friction, Inertia , even curbs, walls and big hills.
@raynardine - either dont teach or dont require kids to pay attention in class.
My turn?
1. The bible would classify Pasteur as a fool.
Stupid enough?
Pule Thamex
Wise move. To consider otherwise could seriously damage your mental equilibrium. You could be in mortal danger of being partly educated and of severely disrupting your powers of self-delusion.
The Earth rotates around its axis on the surface at about 1,700 kmh.
The Earth revolves around the Sun at about 108,000 kmh.
The Solar system revolves around the Milky Way at about 990,000 kmh.
The Milky Way as a whole is moving at about 2,268,000 kmh.
I suppose, to get the net speed of any human at any time relative to an imaginary stationary point of reference, one would have to screw around with those numbers a bit.
No matter how you calculate it, that's one holy motherfucker of a cartwheel, and in so many different directions at the same time.
Not bad.
No wonder I feel dizzy sometimes.
Distance between Pluto and Earth = 5.9 billion KM.
If earth is not spinning, Pluto would need to travel a grand total of 381,944KM per second to make it's orbit in just 24 hours.
For reference, the speed of light is 299,792KM per second.
Two problems... first, that is WAAAAAAAAY more than escape velocity, so Pluto should be several thousands of light years away by now. (assuming the universe is just 6k years old)
I'd go and work out the figures for the sun and moon, but lets just say they would be several hundred light years away by now too. I don't think 1mind1spirit has thought this through.
...What.
Wait, what?
...wait, WHAT?!
What does item 1 have to do with the rest of that string of insane troll logic?
"The Bible would classify Galileo as a fool.
There, I've fixed this quote. It still doesn't make sense, but it reads a lot better.
Confused?
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