How come we can see the moon every night? Doesn't the moon move slower than the Earth rotates? So there should be some nights when the moon isn't visible because it's over another country. How come this is never the case? How come I ALWAYS see it every night?
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"How come we can see the moon every night? Doesn't the moon move slower than the Earth rotates?"
He says as the Earth rotates.
Ask a REAL question. For example, If the Moon orbits the Earth every day, why are there TWO high tides every day?
Anyone?
Because...the Earth rotates (?). So the moon is only over a particular country for a certain amount of time before the Earth has rotated further along, to make it so that it is over another one...
I could be wrong though....but how is this at all relevant to anything?
"How come I ALWAYS see it every night"
Yeesh. This loon hasn't noticed lunar phases yet and can still type (and intriguingly, spell words properly). It is entirely too easy to find food and computers these days.
Errr, because the complete rotation of the earth requires only a tad over 24 hours, maybe?
At least that's what I was taught as a tiny tot. Perhaps someone will explain it to you, too, when and if you graduate to the pre-school level.
If your name was Self-Mutilation, it would tell us a whole lot more about you.
And what the guy under sakura meant to say is: www.justfuckinggoogleit.com
Every night? Even during a new moon?
And the moon actually moves in the opposite direction of the Earths rotation, but you'd know that if you weren't home schooled.
"How come I ALWAYS see it every night?"
No no see.....what you think is the moon, is actually your neighbor's bare ass. He thinks you're a twit of the highest order.
Why do people ask questions like this before they even try to google an answer? If you are on the internet, there is really no excuse for this sort of thing unless you just don't know how to google, in which case you barely even have a right to own a computer.
Two high tides occur every day because tidal forces are in fact stretching at the earth as a whole, at both sides, away from the center.
Imagine if you would, three small objects in orbit around a larger one. The closest moves the fastest, and the furthest moves the slowest. However, if you were to connect these objects with string or such, force them to travel the same speed as the center, the closest would be moving too slow, and pull towards the mass orbited, while the furthest would be moving too fast, and pull away from the mass orbited.
See, stretching both ways.
The Earth rotates one a day, from west to east, making the Sun, stars, and Moon appear to rise in the East and set in the West. The Moon revoles once every 29 days, and appears to move eastwad against the background of the stars, so if you see it early, and where it is in the sky, and check on it before you go to bed, it will have moved to the left against the stars, as well as appearing to go towards the West. Slightly slower- it will be up longer than the Sun. It is not always up at night, and the first quarter is up by afternoon, last quarter will be setting in the morning.
Jezebel's Evil Sister wrote:
"Errr, because the complete rotation of the earth requires only a tad over 24 hours, maybe?" <nitpick>
The mean sidereal day -- the average time it takes for the Earth to go around exactly once, with respect to the stars -- is 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds.
The mean solar day is a full 24 hours, because in the time it takes the Earth to go around once, the Earth's orbit around the sun will have moved the sun's apparent position a little farther to the East.
Okay, can we try to lay off the homeschooling cracks a bit? I was homeschooled through high school, and I like to think I'm a bit brighter than the average fundie. It's not just for scary religious people anymore.
I agree with post #551964. The belittling of home-based education needs to just stop. I find these derisive comments to be downright ignorant. It might surprise some of you to know that home schooling has produced some very successful people including: Thomas Edison, Booker T. Washington, Mozart, Mark Twain, Irving Berlin, Charles Dickens, James Madison, Andrew Carnegie and many more.
Home schooling is not limited to religious fundamentalists. Even when religious fundamentalists home school, it does not usually result in an uneducated, incompetent simpleton (at least, when compared to the average public or parochial schooled student).
As an unwavering atheist, I am proud of my academic and life achievements as a lifelong home schooler and fully support home schooling!
This picture is a to-scale illustration of the earth-moon system. And at that distance, the moon is effectively over EVERY country located on the side of the earth facing moonwards:
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I strongly suspect "Self-Mutation" thinks that the moon is as far away as, for example, an airplane in flight. If so, this fundie post would be another evidence how small and narrow Fundieland is.
This reminds me of a girl I once met - not fundy, just very, very dim - who wanted to know where all the suns go at night. I kid ye not. When asked what she meant, it turned out she believed that ever country has its own sun. And she wasn't a child, she was in her twenties, poor cow. You can't help feeling a bit sorry for these people.
@Adrian: Yes, and Newton was a creationist. When homeschooling was the only way to get a decent education, every educated person was homeschooled.
And I know of very few religious fundamentalists who aren't "uneducated, incompetent simpletons". How exactly do they educate their children to not be so, especially when many of them intentionally misinform their children?
I agree in a sense: There is nothing inherently wrong or inferior about homeschooling, and I'm sure some very competent people were homeschooled. But those who homeschool because they don't understand or believe what schools teach are doing their children a disservice. And these seem to be the majority of homeschooled children in the US.
@Sevagram: Wow. That is... Wow.
You can see it every night? Well, yes, but you have to look for it at a different time every night, moron.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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