Read the Beforeitsnews.com story here. Advertise at Before It's News here.
Profile image
Story Views
Now:
Last hour:
Last 24 hours:
Total:

Why It's Impossible to Live on a Spinning Globe Earth

% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.


Do we actually live on a globe that spins at 1000 mph and travels at 67,000 mph around the sun?   Is this even possible?  Can we prove it?  Yes we can, using simple math and scientific principles, we can easily see which earth we live on.  A globe that spins, or a flat stationary earth.  Obviously, it can’t be both, it’s one or the other.   So let’s see which one it is.  There are many experiments we can do to determine which earth we live on, so let’s test this one out.  

I will set up 3 targets.  Each will be 1200 feet away from me.   One will be east of me, one west, and one north.  I will shoot at the targets with my .22 rifle using bullets which travel 1200 fps.  The bullets should strike the targets one second after I fire at them.  I fire at all three targets.  Each one is hit one second after I fire which is how long it takes the bullet to reach the target.  I could shoot hundreds of rounds and get the same results.  In 
fact I could shoot any target in any direction at 1200 feet and get the same results.   The only difference is that this only works on a stationary earth.  Once you try to apply this experiment to a spinning globe earth, everything changes.   Here’s why.

Science tells us that the spinning globe they say we live on moves at 1000 mph or 1500 fps from west to east.  So if I shoot east, my bullet will travel 1200 feet in one second, but the target which is on the earth will move 1500 feet in that one second.   Therefore, I could never hit my target because the earth moves faster than the bullet in that direction.  If I fire west, then the bullet and the target are approaching each other.  If they both travel at the same speed, then they would meet in the middle.  The bullet is travelling a little slower, so the bullet will take less than half a second to hit the target.  If I fire at the north target, the bullet will take one second to arrive, but by then the target will have moved eastward by 1500 feet so I will miss the target.  This is what happens on a spinning globe that some of you claim you live on.

Science also tells us that it’s not only the earth that moves west to east at 1000 mph, but also everything on it and the air around us and yes, even those soft billowy clouds.  They tell us that when we throw a ball up in the air, the reason it comes right back down to us is because the ball is also moving west to east at 1000 mph like we are.  So even though we have moved 1500 feet so has the ball.  So what is moving the ball when it’s in the air?  It’s impossible for the air to do that because air acts differently on all objects of different sizes, shapes, and weights.  Yet I can throw many different objects in the air and they will all come right back down.  Also I could stand next to a huge building and block the supposed 1000 mph wind and still get the same results.  Or I could drop a 5000 lb weight from a crane and it would fall straight down, the air would have no effect on it.  So that is 
impossible.  Gravity cannot do it as it does not work sideways on an object only downward (if you believe gravity exists). So what is moving the ball from west to east at 1000 mph?   This is where the spinning globe believers get stuck for answers.  

To further demonstrate how absolutely impossible this theory is, consider how it would affect us if it were actually true.   Monkeys could not jump from tree to tree like they do now.  They would not be able to jump to the east or north because the tree would move before they got there.  The same with antelope and other animals that spring through the air they would keep hitting trees and other animals.  Birds could not fly east or west like 
they do now or they would go nowhere.  Airplanes could not land on any north/south airstrips.  How about baseball, football, soccer, high jump, tennis, golf, and so many other sports.  How would they all adjust for the movement of the earth.  Utterly Impossible.   It would be like living on a moving treadmill.  This is why we live on a flat stationary earth where we can move in any direction any time with the same results each time.  

For more info click Here.



Before It’s News® is a community of individuals who report on what’s going on around them, from all around the world.

Anyone can join.
Anyone can contribute.
Anyone can become informed about their world.

"United We Stand" Click Here To Create Your Personal Citizen Journalist Account Today, Be Sure To Invite Your Friends.

Please Help Support BeforeitsNews by trying our Natural Health Products below!


Order by Phone at 888-809-8385 or online at https://mitocopper.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST

Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomic.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST

Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomics.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST


Humic & Fulvic Trace Minerals Complex - Nature's most important supplement! Vivid Dreams again!

HNEX HydroNano EXtracellular Water - Improve immune system health and reduce inflammation.

Ultimate Clinical Potency Curcumin - Natural pain relief, reduce inflammation and so much more.

MitoCopper - Bioavailable Copper destroys pathogens and gives you more energy. (See Blood Video)

Oxy Powder - Natural Colon Cleanser!  Cleans out toxic buildup with oxygen!

Nascent Iodine - Promotes detoxification, mental focus and thyroid health.

Smart Meter Cover -  Reduces Smart Meter radiation by 96%! (See Video).

Report abuse

    Comments

    Your Comments
    Question   Razz  Sad   Evil  Exclaim  Smile  Redface  Biggrin  Surprised  Eek   Confused   Cool  LOL   Mad   Twisted  Rolleyes   Wink  Idea  Arrow  Neutral  Cry   Mr. Green

    Total 73 comments
    • PaulTarsuss
      • Mongoose

        The history of the flat earth goes back thousands of years.

        Also, I believe Dubay, Sargent, Powerland and pretty much everyone that youtube shoved in our face to be disinfo shills. Dubay gained a following by making alot of sense (not complete sense) on the flat earth subject and religion but then comes out and claims that dinosaurs are not real. In this way he discredited the whole idea of fe. It is pretty easy to prove that dinosaurs were real.

        So everyone who believed him and repeated him about dinosaurs because he gained their trust and respect were immediately discredited. I don’t believe that he is stupid so it must have been intentional.

        They put these shills out in order to get ahead of the inevitable questions that were already being asked by some and soon to be asked by many due to the amateur rocket and balloon videos that were being made and shared. It was technology in amateur hands that they could not manipulate that forced them to come out with this and try to discredit it before it gained momentum. I don’t think their plan worked, some of us are still to smart. I guess they need to up the fluoride dosage. lol

        The globe is the psyop.

        /conspiracy-theories/2016/02/false-flat-earth-arguments-that-should-be-avoided-2473966.html

        /science-and-technology/2016/03/this-is-what-convinced-me-that-the-earth-is-flat-and-the-globe-is-bunk-2814558.html

        • DistantCousin

          The shape doesn’t interest me
          But show me a navigable Maritime chart of what
          is commonly known as the South Pacific, and
          the South Atlantic, and we have a place to start.

          An Amazing Conspiracy!!!
          It started before Capt. Cook.
          By Captain Cook’s time he was already falsifying
          all of his ship’s Logbooks and his Sextant readings.
          “Inconceivable” Utter Genius, those Jesuits.

          Benjamin Franklin, in the name of “Science”
          told the Revolutionary naval forces not to
          hinder or fire upon Cook’s ship. Just an excuse
          by Evil Freemason Benjamin so Capt Cook
          could continue falsifying the data.

          Right???? I will probably find that Papalatschi
          that I wrote in some upcoming video.

          Hey Flat Dudes and Dudettes,

          COUGH UP THE CHARTS!!!!!!
          Usable Maritime Navigation Charts.
          Where those on the Ships are not
          as lost as MH370

          Knowledge is not a sin
          Education is not a sin

          Spreading Worthless Lies
          Is A SIN.

          RR

          • Real Expert

            Shame on you Cousin! How dare you make them
            come up with real stuff to make their fantasy cash
            cow fall all apart?? I am appalled at you.
            Make them come up with provable maps?
            You know every map ever made, no matter
            of the time period is a NASA trick. Shame on you!
            :grin:

    • Syco

      More flat brain nonsense, guys this isn’t even funny anymore. Find a new joke. Can we move on to cube earth or the stately tetrahedron maybe?

    • A Commentator

      It’s funny how someone with clearly no scientific knowledge, can try to explain something they don’t understand at all.

      I don’t speak German, so I won’t try to teach people German.

      You don’t understand science, so how about you not try to teach us about science?

      • Jango

        So can you explain it???

        • Jawbones

          Try this, drive in a car and while driving toss a ball up, or have someone toss a ball straight up. If your car is going say 55mph does the ball fly back at 55mph? Or just go up and back down like it would be if standing still? Whats happening is everything in the car is already moving with the velocity of 55mph. So in other words if you come to a dead stop everything will slam the front of the car. Earth = car.. except we’re moving a whole lot faster.

          re-commented here cause i got buried by distantcousins comment

          • Jango

            Jawbones. I read your previous comment, but this does not explain why on a spinning globe it is not possible to hit the targets when I shoot east or north. Can you explain that? The math is correct. Science tells us the earth moves 1500 fps and the bullet ballistics tell us the bullet moves at 1200 fps, so we have correct numbers to work with.

            • Jawbones

              Its the same principle of the car. So say your aiming the gun north. You and the bullet are already traveling 1500fps side ways as you stand there aiming the gun at the target. As the bullet leaves the barrel its still traveling 1500fps sideways along with the earths rotation plus 1200fps forwards towards the target.

              Going back to the car, if i was riding in a car that could go 1200fps and i shot the gun out the window pointing it forward, the bullet wouldnt just stay still because im already moving 1200fps. it would double the speed of the bullet. making it 2400fps.

              Im just throwing this out there for what makes sense to me not trying to disprove what your saying as im open to free thought.

            • Jawbones

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJzr_aSSE4
              so lets say in this video the car is earth and the target your shooting at is attached to the car since thats our earth, the ball is our bullet, and the parking lot is just our measurement of movement which we can call space.

            • Real Expert

              Now Jango Mango, the math is not correct at all.
              Jawbones has it right. Your equation is flawed by
              factoring in a “static” earth when you start out.
              Start out with the earth moving as Jawbones suggests
              and then your equation will work for ya!
              Good luck, and think hard!

          • Anonymous

            Jawbones,
            We know that you have to be full of donkey dung because we have wind speeds from all different directions and speeds. Now tell me, at what altitude does your magical containment theory no longer work? If you cannot tell me the distance, we know you are full of donkey dung or perhaps paid to spew your donkey dung.

            • Jawbones

              Just trying to have good conversation, i cant tell you the altitude or distance.

            • Jango

              Jawbones: Here is the problem with your explanation. If the bullet is moving sideways at 1500 fps does this mean that guns don’t shoot straight? Secondly what force could move a bullet 1500 feet in one second when it’s going 1200 fps in the other direction? Thirdly if the bullet goes at an angle to hit the target, then it no longer travels at 1200 fps because that distance is longer and the mfg’s testing shows that it does indeed travel at 1200 fps. And fourthly, do you really think that this mysterious force pushing the bullet sideways at 1500 fps could do so with such accuracy that it would hit the target. If so then what happens when a quarterback throws a football in that direction? It sure doesn’t look to me like the football moves diagonally when he throws it straight? I’m not being sarcastic, just reasoning with you. I couldn’t reply to your msg below, hope you find this.

            • Jawbones

              Jango: It wouldnt only be the bullet as the target is moving as fast as the bullet is so thats why it appears and actually is shooting straight. The force is velocity/inertia, since the air is moving relatively the same speed as the earth give or take a few mph it really doesnt effect the side ways motion any more than kentucky windage. The video i posted above does a good job at explaining this. If someone was in another car beside them they could throw that ball back and forth no matter the speed at which they are traveling as long as the wind resistance allowed it, which for what we’re talking about isnt really a factor.

            • Real Expert

              Dear Fake Anonymous, The height is only
              relative to your goals. The actual atmosphere
              is so thin at 90,000 feet that it would probably
              be the correct answer to your question. Since
              the atmosphere continues to thin out the higher
              you go, it is up to your needs for any equation
              to say “enough”. If you need to achieve the total
              vacuum of space the answer would be around 100
              miles. Hope that helps.

          • Jango

            Your answer does not work on all three directions because you have a different result each time so the same theory does not apply to all 3, you would need 3 theories. On a stationary earth it works just fine, but not on a spinning globe for this reason.

            • Jawbones

              Lets try this a different way, if you could make a car the size of a football field and move it 55mph on a never ending perfectly flat piece of road. once it got to speed you would be able to walk around fine just like on a train or plane and not even really notice its moving, a football would throw the same just like in the video, and a gun would be able to hit a target on all four sides.

          • Jango

            The only way to test this theory correctly would be to pull a flatbed with a car and set up targets. If the car was going at 15mph the object would have to be thrown at the target at 12 mph. And then test this in all 3 directions. If I was contracted to build a mechanical machine with these requirements I don’t believe it would work because 12mph can never catch 15mph. If one part was moving at 15 fps and the second part was 12 feet away from it and released toward the first part, it would have to travel faster than 15fps to catch up or else it would always stay at less than a 12 foot distance away. Or this. If the first part moved at 15 fps and the second part moved at 15 fps they would always be the same distance apart. The only way it could catch up is to go faster. But it doesn’t. This is why shooting eastward the bullet would have to go faster than 1500 fps or it will never reach the target. But it only goes at 1200 fps. In other words, the earth is supposedly travelling at 1000 mph but the bullet at 800 mph. How can it reach the target? If it travelled at 1000 mph it would still stay 1200 feet back because it’s travelling the same speed as the earth but it started it’s journey 1200 feet back of the target and that is where it would stay. It would have to go faster than 1000 mph to catch the target. This is shooting east in the direction of the spin. Or this. If the first car is going at 55 mph and the second car behind it at 45 mph, what would happen? The second car would never overtake or even keep up with the first car. This is comparing apples to apples.

            • Jawbones

              You would be right if they were never connected to begin with but thats just it, the object is already moving 15mph on the trailer before you throw it 12mph, to an observer on the outside the object would be moving 27mph towards the forward moving target and 3mph towards the rear target, and 15mph on either side. to the person on the trailer it would appear as 12mph the whole time.

            • Jawbones

              found this which is very similar to what we’re talking about.
              http://science.howstuffworks.com/question456.htm i think the mythbusters have done something like this on their show.

            • Nanar

              The mistake is using different referential for calculating speeds.

              Lets take a 2D model (I know you like that).
              A simple immobile table (a very long one).
              Now, on this table you have a remote car moving at 10km/h
              This toy car as a gun turret that can shoot pellets.
              the pellets shoots at 5km/h

              Speed of a shoot pellet base on the table referential
              ————————————————————————

              If the car is moving at 10km/h, then the pellets of the guns of the car are also moving at 10km/h. If the pellet is shoot, then the speed of the pellet is 10+5 = 15km/h

              Speed of the pellet shoot based on the car referential
              ————————————————————————–
              We are calculating the speed of the pellet based on the car referential, so the speed of the pellet would be 5km/h

              *adding a referential*
              Now, lets say earth is a flat disk (I know you like that also). it’s moving in at a speed approx 1000km/h (just giving a number) on a solar referential.

              So then:
              - the table would be moving at 1000km/h
              - the car would be moving at 1000+10 = 1010 km/h
              - a shoot pellet would be moving 1000 + 10 +5 = 1015km/h

              If the car has an opposite movement to the earth then just subtract to have relative speeds.

              you can go on like adding rotation and other physical properties.
              Because yes, the sun is also not a fix point in the milky way. It’s also moving very fast and it’s gravity well dragging a whole lot of stuff along the way.

              It’s really not more complicated then this.
              According to your logic, would we piss contrario to the earth’s rotation, we would all pi on ourselves… :D

          • Jango

            You still have not explained how 12mph can catch 15mph. The only way would be to go 27 mph which it doesn’t. It goes 12 mph and started out at the back of the trailer about 12 feet away. It could never hit the target in the direction of travel unless it went faster than 15 mph. Same as two cars following each other. For the 12 mph car to reach the 15 mph car it would have to go faster. But it doesn’t. Show me how this can work?

            • Jango

              I read this link and here’s the thing. He said the bullet travels at 2,000 mph. But we know that our bullet does not do that. Because the mfg tested it (on a spinning globe?) and found it only travels 1200 fps. Not faster. So it doesn’t matter which direction we shoot, it will not go any faster. So shooting eastward it will not go faster than 1200 fps because the mfg already tested that. In fact if we wanted to replicate the tests, I am confident that no matter what direction you shoot that bullet it will go at 1200 fps. But if we shoot east, the earth is moving at 1500 fps. How do you explain this?

            • Jango

              Furthermore, he is talking about a moving train and a stationary ground. We are not.

            • Jawbones

              Well you have to picture the train as the earth and forget that the ground even exists because the ground would be space. Its just relativity, so the earth is moving 1500fps and we’re standing still on it moving 1500fps and shoot 1200fps from our gun standing still on the earth. The target doesnt move any further away from where we’re standing and the bullet has only one choice and thats to still go 1200 fps away from us. The target itself doesnt move away and we dont move anywhere the only thing that can move is the bullet. see the earth is spinning at 1500fps relative to space which is i guess absolute 0mph. what we base our speed to on earth is based off of earth not the speed at which we’re moving in space. so trying to compare the speed of something on earth to speed in space are two different things. if i was floating in space and shot right beside the earth in the same direction as the rotation thats when what your saying would be true as the earth would be spinning faster but only because im not standing on it.

        • LucidMebin

          We are sooooo small compared to Earth. So it’s just like if you have a toothpick and a baseball – if you put the toothpick on the baseball it’s not going to lay flush on the ball. But if you make it much smaller it will. May be kind of a bad analogy but just because you can’t comprehend something doesn’t make it not true. Haven’t you ever been in an airplane? You can SEE the curvature of the Earth! Even that video of those kids sending a stuffed dog up, you can see the curve in the horizon. Think about it this way – the Earth have been spinning since day 1 – we’re born on a spinning ball – we don’t know what it feels like to be still.

        • LifeIs

          The ball is moving at the same speed as the surface. So is the air. Until something slows them down.

      • DistantCousin

        German is my second language,
        I would never try to teach it!!!!!

        hahahahahahahahahahahaha
        :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

      • Real Expert

        Exactly! So in his world, if you took a car and drove it in the same direction
        as the earth is spinning, it would actually move backwards at 950 mph then?
        Laws of motion and laws of physics are not his strong suits are they now?? :grin:

    • DistantCousin

      Proverbs 17. 28
      Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding

      Proverbs 12, 1,2
      Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid. 2A good man will obtain favor from the LORD, But He will condemn a man who devises evil.

      2 Timothy 2:23-24
      Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.

      Proverbs 13:16
      All who are prudent act with knowledge, but fools expose their folly.

      Proverbs 15:21
      Stupidity is the delight of the senseless, but an understanding man walks uprightly.

      Proverbs 23:12
      Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

      Jango,
      I am supposed to forget what I have done and what I have seen to follow you
      on a trek across this “Flat Earth” of yours???

      You poor people can’t even draw a navigable maritime map of what is known
      as the South Pacific and South Atlantic.

      The 6,400 nautical mile Auckland to Brazil leg of the Volvo Ocean Race becomes a
      roughly 17,000 nautical mile leg. “Inconcievable!”

      In so many ways I hope you are some sort of Psy-Op. An unknown form of
      Artificial Unintelligence. It would be an amusing relief for me.

      The combination of lack of usable education combined with the lack of
      discernment to recognize this deficiency leaves me in disbelief.
      Where have you traveled in your life??? If you have traveled, did you
      travel to learn and discover, or to prove a preconceived notion?
      I honestly feel quite sorry for you.

      What is sadder is that your actions are destructive.

      Don’t come back with childish rebuttal that sounds intellectual
      in your ears, – - – Come back with the navigable maps of the
      South Pacific. With the Islands of Tahiti, Pitcairn, Fiji, New
      Zealand etc. in the correct positions The distance from
      Auckland to the Southern Tip of South America must also
      be correct.
      Navigable Usable Accurate. Anything else is a blatant statement
      of FAILIURE

      What does a Flat Earth Convention look like???
      It must be the intellectual equivalent to a “Boneless Chicken Ranch”.

      Even after I have written all of this, I will repeat myself.

      Like a dog returning to its vomit.

      I expect you back tomorrow.
      Cough up the facts and the navigable charts.
      Verified Navigable by a registered Captain.
      (Not some Clown like the “German Engineer”
      on another video)
      (I have patents in Germany, for shifting in
      racing gearboxes and vacuum insulation.)

      No uneducated tricks.
      RR :eek:

      • Jango

        Since you quoted scripture, you must have some knowledge of the Bible. So how do you explain the scriptural references to the World that God made? God made the world we live on. Scientists didn’t. He did Not make a globe. He made the earth, sun, moon, and stars. No planets. The earth He made is stationary and the sun and moon and stars travel above the flat stationary earth. If you don’t believe in God or the Bible that’s your business, but since you quoted scripture I am assuming you do. Are you then going to deny that God made the universe and instead believe that it just happened (big bang)? If you do, then believe what you want to, but if you are a Christian, then you should at least consider what the Bible says about it shouldn’t you? Or would you rather believe science instead of God???? The scriptural references are on my website at ItsHisStory.com/globe if you want to check them out.

        • DistantCousin

          We are not even talking science, it is way
          below that. We are talking navigation. The
          ability to steer a ship (forget airplanes for now)
          to a specific destination.

          As for questions over the Biblical description- -
          There were so many years and reworked translations – - -
          I will not deny reality to defend one specific translation,
          or possibly “Translation Failure”. I would instead tell
          someone that with trust in G-d, Patience and Understanding,
          A state of understanding will come, so that at some point
          the details like the shape of the Planet become immaterial.

          When someone is imprisoned, being tortured, or threatened with
          execution, the shape of the earth is far from their minds.
          Nero with Tropez is a good example. Very likely with the
          standard education of a gladiator, Tropez had never given much
          thought to the shape of the Earth that he was born upon.
          He didn’t lose his head for saying the Earth is flat, He lost his
          head for an innocent and naive refusal to deny Christ. Innocent
          Naive, illiterate, unblinking, and as hard as the hardest steel.
          (Could you stand eye to eye with Nero, and not flinch,
          I couldn’t)

          If your faith is strong, the shape of the planet is immaterial,
          unless you are navigating a ship or aircraft.

          You should be more cautious,
          and even if your hair is white, you are not to old to learn.
          1000 years could never be enough.

          RR
          (There, just for you, I turned my Sarcasm Gene off.)
          (But no guarantees next time)

          • Jango

            Ok, still not sure how you feel towards God, but that’s okay. You are entitled to believe what ever you choose.

          • Ambicatus

            Dear Distant Cousin,

            You, are dealing with a “pernicious serpent”

            The angels of heaven are affections of good and thoughts thence of truth because they are recipients of divine love and wisdom from יהוה; for all affections of good are from the divine love and all thoughts of truth are from the divine wisdom. But the spirits of hell are lusts of evil and the imaginations thence of falsity because they are in self-love and their own intelligence, and all lusts of evil come of self-love and imaginations of falsity from one’s own intelligence.

            • DistantCousin

              I hope you come back and read this.
              Thank you Ricardo.
              I see you turned the Sarcasm off as well.

              I am writing with the belief that there is
              a 10% chance of positively influencing
              a Flat Earther. My hopes are that I can
              influence the naive and poorly Educated.
              This is in reality an ugly trap that they have
              sprung, even though it appears quite harmless.

              Sound Bite repetition is a wonderful tool,
              And in this case True.
              When I say “Like Dogs Returning To Their Vomit”
              I mean it. And I know they will be back with
              their destructive trap tomorrow.

              I will repeat Like Dogs every day, Until- –
              they are commonly known as – - -

              “Vomiting Dogs Flat Earth Society”
              Kinda Cute, don’tcha Think???

              Kind of an Intellectual – Philosophical Bulimia Society.

              Let’s Get Em! :cool:
              RR :cool:

            • Ambicatus

              Aye, i agree with you, however, i have come to a conclusion.

              they must be put down, for the sake for the children, and yes, “Sarcasm” is off.

              but, i shall wait, for Psalm 27 says wait, and wait i shall, for i know with all certainty, not long and they dance the dance of final motion, the death-rattle shall be their song, not to long.

              for this jango, and veil, in what way are they different from indian in the machine? not all all, they are here to cath those with iching ears, and the consequences of the flat-earth belief, is spiritual death, so, they trying to get everyone who reads this, to commit spiritual suicide. i dont know what kind of retribution would be most suited, i suspect discerption, as usual. but ja, pls come black sun! save us from these idiots, who sway they minds of even bigger idiots! i see the forces of darkness have capitalized on the sheer stupidity of the average hunam./
              this makes me, glad, i shall not feel bad, putting them, thru what is to come. Ahmein

        • Real Expert

          Jango, the Bible tells us that God made the Earth, but nowhere does it
          say it was a flat disc. And it does not say that he did not make planets,
          it just doesn’t say at all. Back when it was written, planets were thought
          of as moving stars, and the word “planet” means wandering (star), so
          when he said he made the stars, it was inclusive of planets too. The Bible
          did not separate one from the other. Back then “stars” meant lights
          in the night sky, and planets qualified in that description. Not everyone
          believes in the big bang, in the globe system.. So quit trying to equate
          all globers with the big bang.. It’s not so.. And a question, you said
          God created the universe? If he did, what is a universe to you?’
          A universe to me, is a gargantuan creation, with galaxies, stars, planets,
          and of course the earth.

          I know you have no room for real science, but if you did, I could
          tell you that the most common thing in any galaxy is the sphere.
          If you take any amount of water and let it loose in zero gravity,
          it will immediately form a sphere. Just as hot gasses, with enough
          mass form spheres in space and coalesce into stars. Planets form
          in the same manner. Hot molten metals, also will do the same
          and form a sphere, like planets. Now we all observe these things
          to be true, with our own telescopes, so NASA doesn’t even
          have antything to do with those observations. So since
          we are seeing that for ourselves, let me ask you;
          Why would God make everything in the universe a sphere,
          but not the earth?

    • Jawbones

      Try this, drive in a car and while driving and toss a ball up, or have someone toss a ball straight up. If your car is going say 55mph does the ball fly back at 55mph? Or just go up and back down like it would be if standing still? Whats happening is everything in the car is already moving with the velocity of 55mph. So in other words if you come to a dead stop everything will slam the front of the car. Earth = car.. except we’re moving a whole lot faster.

      • Jango

        Thank you for that comment, but can you explain why the gun can’t hit the target east and north on a spinning globe?

        • Harro

          Hi Jango. I have read your arguments. You are overlooking the key fact that the velocities are ‘relative’, not ‘absolute’. You need to select a suitable ‘frame of reference’ on which to base your arguments. To use your example above, who says the gun can’t hit the target east and north on a spinning globe?… Would you stand in front of said gun? I certainly wouldn’t. Consider this: I am in the back seat of a moving vehicle, travelling forward at say 100mph (relative to the road surface). I pass a cup of coffee to the driver in the front seat. Relative to the road surface, the coffee is travelling a little faster than the vehicle, at say 101mph. Relative to those aboard the vehicle, the coffee is passed forward at say 1mph. It’s all relative. Same applies to all the explanations in this blog… it’s all relative. :grin:
          I must admit, though, it is amazing that we can have a tangential velocity of approx. 1000mph relative to the centre of the earth, and feel like we are standing still. That’s because we are in steady state motion… same as if you are in an aeroplane in steady state motion, travelling close to the speed of sound… feels like you are standing still (if the pilot is any good!)

    • cbanse

      Theory: Maybe, after millions of years, the atmospheric gases have also accelerated, due to friction with the surface, to a speed matching the rotation of the planet. Then, what we feel as wind today are only the slight changes from that atmospheric rotation speed and direction.

      • Jango

        This does not explain why I can’t hit the north and east targets on a spinning globe. I can on a stationary earth but would not be able to on a spinning globe due to the rotation at 1500 fps west to east. This would definately affect the trajectory would it not?

      • Real Expert

        Good one cbanse, but I already tried to do that same scenario with Jango months ago.
        I even provided an experiment in his own house he could do to demonstrate it,
        but he is one of those that says “don’t confuse me with the facts”.. So to no avail.

        He demonstrates such a total lack of physics, that I can’t believe after the
        patience and hard work jawbones did to demonstrate perfect examples,
        of how speed, inertia, and relativity between them operate, and he just
        can’t get there mentally.. It just blows me away. I am not out to insult
        poor Jango here, but I am just saying, I can’t believe after all Jaw’s great
        analogies, and demonstrations, that he still does not understand!

        He uses his own math, which starts out using a static model for his
        equation, and then with that in mind, everything comes out wrong,
        and always will. I would like to thank Jawbone though, great job dude!
        Just wish it had done ya some good, but just as I have always thought,
        he never will get it. Impossible case!

        And Veil is just the same, he thinks that for whatever
        reason, the atmosphere won’t follow the earth around
        it’s spin, that for some reason, it would just sit still. Hmm,
        all I know if I had trees, mountains, ocean waves and every
        other obstruction sticking up telling me “hey come along this
        way” over millions of years, I’d eventually come along for
        the ride, and wouldn’t just sit there like a complete dolt.
        For some reason veil thinks it would just stay in place
        for millions of years. 2 impossible cases..

    • The Thinning Veil Report

      great post, jango, but the naysayers will inevitably come out with the old…’well the atmosphere moves at the same speed as the earth!’

      if this were so, we would have to be in a vacuum, a sealed container of sorts, which is what they claim BUT! they always skip over the fact that in order for a rocket to leave this atmosphere and enter the magical, mystical, weightless ‘OUTER SPACE’ lol that the vacuum would be pierced and all the atmosphere around earth would be sucked out into the VOID.

      their answer to every reasonable query is….gravity, GRAVITY! GRAVITY!!!!!!!!

      ALL THEY HAVE IS THE UNPROVEN, UNREPRODUCIBLE THEORY OF GRAVITY AND WHEN THAT FAILS, THE INSULTS START A FLYIN.

      keep up the good work, you are getting through to some. the ones who are meant to see will see. the others are not our problem. it’s the separation of the wheat from the tares.

      believe in a man-made ba’al worship or a divine creation. everyone has to choose, and religion has nothing to do with it, not really. religion is man-made too, but god is the I AM.

      religion – latin – religare: to bind.

      what matters is the truth and the truth is god, so to speak.

      soapbox moment over!

      have a great night, jango.

      • Jango

        That’s the thing. No one can deny the math. The math simply does not work on a spinning globe with this example. It’s easy to talk about millions of miles or millions of years because no one can prove that, but when you have all the numbers that’s a different story. I read once that most people will still not change their mind even when evidence is produced if they have a strong enough opinion about something. And we have all been brainwashed since grade one. Some get it right away, and some take longer.

      • Real Expert

        LIKE I SAID BEFORE VEIL, THERE IS NO MEMBRANE TO PIERCE OKAY? GET OVER IT.
        QUIT ACTING LIKE A SPOILED BRAT BEING CAUGHT WITH HIS HAND IN THE COOKIE
        JAR. The atmosphere thins out the higher you go, until it is all vacuum. What part
        of that can’t you understand? NO MEMBRANE.. Quit making yourself look stupid okay?
        NO MEMBRANE!

        And JANGO, “no one can deny the math”?? We all deny flawed math.
        So, hate to blow your statement (a proclamation again), but none
        of us can accept your bad math.. It starts out with wrong assumptions
        and gets worse from that point onward..

    • hansom

      Just one word “momentum”

      • Jostler

        AKA “inertia” :)

    • Ambicatus

      sad.

      The ancients were well aware the world was a sphere. Pythagoras (6th century B.C.) is generally credited with having first suggested a round Earth. Aristotle (4th century B.C.) agreed and supported the theory with observations such as that the southern constellations rise higher in the sky when a person travels south. He also noted that during a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow is round. Eratosthenes (3rd century B.C., head librarian at the Library of Alexandria) built on their ideas and calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy at about 252,000 stadia. Depending on which stadion measurement he was using, his figure was either just 1% too small or 16% too large; many scholars think it likely that he was using the Egyptian stadion (157.5 m), being in Egypt at the time, which would make his estimate about 1% to small… remarkable.

      Later, the Roman Ptolemy added to the collected wisdom. He observed that as a man approached a far off mountain, it appeared to grow out of the ground – a clear indication of a curved surface. He later devised the forerunner of modern-day longitude and latitude, including measuring what we now call latitude from the equator.

      In Christian medieval Europe, Bede (7th century C.E.), a scholar and a Catholic monk, produced an influential treatise that included a discussion of the spherical nature of the world. This work, The Reckoning of Time, was copied and distributed to clerics across the Carolingian empire. Later, in the 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy also describes the Earth as a sphere.

      The Catholics weren’t the only religious sect that thought the world was round. The Islamic world is known to have consistently maintained the scientific knowledge of the Greeks and Romans, preserving the works of Aristotle and Ptolemy, among others. They were well aware the Earth was round, having calculated with relatively good precision its circumference in the early 9th century.
      *************************************************************************************
      As historian Jeffrey Burton Russell stated,

      With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat.
      *************************************************************************************

      NO EDUCATED PERSON…. in the HISTORY of western civilization, form the THIRD CENTURY!!

      BUT HERE THEY ARE NOW!!! look, and they trying to make everyone think Bible says flat earth! no it dont!

      Isa 40:21 Did you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
      Isa 40:22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
      Isa 40:23 who brings princes to naught, shall make the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

      o and they do doubt say “its a flat circle” but, i would expound upon this:

      1Co_7:19 The circumcision is naught, and the uncircumcision is naught, but the guarding of the commands of Elohim does matter!1 Footnote: 1Rom. 2:26-29.

      ITS MATTERS NOT WETHER THE WORLD IS ROUND NOR FLAT, BUT WHAT MATTERS IS THE GUARDING OF THE COMMANDMENTS.

      of ZERO importance is “the geometric shape of the the thing we live on” believeing either world flat or world round, is NOT going to make one iota of difference.

      WHAT is the GOAL , nay AIM, of convincing people, the world is flat? do you get satisfaction, the same satisfaction a jesuits master gets, when he says unto his minion, “that black vase, is white, capeesh?” and then, in total denial of Truth, reason, vision , logic, PERINDE AC CADAVER they answer “the vase is the colour you say it is master”

      say now, hypothetically, i would say “groovy, now i believe world is flat and vase is white” and now, what of it? How will this new belief, change ANYTHING?? please correct me, now that i have my new view, you must please tell where else i was wrong, because if i was so wrong, about that even, i must be wrong about EVERYTHING… so in otherwords, i must become a CATHOLIC and give over to YOU, the spiritual authority in my life! THATS what this is all about, is taking away, peoples ABILITY TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES… that is your crime, and it is grievous.

      and you will pay, because , you, cause SPIRITUAL PARALYSIS and cause people to be cast adrift in the seas of uncertainty. you are BELIAL, and i, HATE YOU

      • DistantCousin

        Sticks and Stones
        May break Flat Earther Bones,
        But intelligence will never hurt them.

      • The Thinning Veil Report

        ricardo cherrypicks what he likes from ancient texts.

        whatever fits his paradigm gets in, everything else…nada.

        heresy anyone?

        glass houses?

    • DISPENSER

      So if I am on a plane traveling 400 mph, and I throw a baseball in the direction of travel, the ball will exit the back of the plane, because I am old, and weak, and can only throw a baseball at 20 mph? OK, I understand your reasoning now :roll: Or does the plane give me superhuman strength, and allow me to throw the ball at 420 mph? What about if I toss the ball from one side of the plane to the other? Does any of this apply if I am left handed.

      • Jango

        If you are on a bicycle doing 30 mph and your friend was riding behind you at 25 mph could your friend ever catch up with you? If I shoot a bullet at 800 mph eastward toward a target that is moving at 1000 mph eastward can the bullet ever hit the target? No to both. This is what happens when you shoot east on a spinning globe going at 1000 mph or 1500 fps with a bullet that is going 800 mph or 1200 fps. The bullet was tested by the mfg and found to travel at that speed. This can only work on a stationary earth which is probably where the mfg did his testing.

        • mleigh

          I am not clear in what direction the gun test was performed in? but too me sounds like a load of horse $4!^. lets say you could throw a ball 90mph, but you did this while travelling on a train at 100mph. if you threw that ball directly forward, are you saying it would actually travel backwords? I would have thought you would still be throwing the ball at 90mph but the fact that the train is already travelling 100mph, then then the ball would then be travelling at 190mph?

        • mleigh

          another attempt at this as the above would have been based on me being inside an empty carriage throwing the ball inside also.
          but f you were walking at 4mph along a travelator with your luggae at the airport and the person not walking on the travelator was also walking 4mph who would get to the end quicker?
          or if you shot at a target while on the travelator and the target was also on the travelator forward or backwards it would hit the target at the same time. however if you were shooting at a target not on the travelator then the time would vary depending on whether the target was in front or behind you.
          so if we think of the earth as the travelator….

        • DistantCousin

          Stop Your Baloney,

          And Cough Up the Navigation Charts!!!!!

    • spooky

      Personally I don’t give a monkeys whether the earth is flat or round, I think if it was flat then the proverbial moggy would be out of the bag by now somewhat like Colonel Saunders so called secret recipe that is allegedly secret despite millions of people working for KFC over the decades. The flat earthers raise intresting points but so do the roundys and all of the evidence I have seen does suggest round is right. I wonder if the earth is flat, why do the northern hemisphere people see a different range of rotating constellations to those in the south? As intersesting as it, is whats more important is this. Are you born again? Have you repented and put faith in Jesus? A storm is coming to planet earth, prepare and seek the Lord, tribulation is coming

      • Jango

        You are right spooky, being born again is all that really matters, especially since the Lord’s return is so near. If people realize that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” they may realize that they should get to know this God that created this wonderful world for us. It’s just another way to realize that it was God all along and not a big bang.

    • Syco

      These are the laws of motion, stick that in your bible humper pipe and choke on it. The earth IS NOT FLAT, yes motion works on a spinning globe (relativity is a wonderful thing) Your analogy would make any range master or gunny ashamed to be in the same species as you.

      I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

      II. The relationship between an object’s mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.

      III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

    • Mongoose

      If the earth were a globe rotating on a tilted axis as we have been taught, then from inside of the arctic circle near the outer edge where the sun is visible 24 hours a day in the summer time we should see the suns path as a clockwise rotating oval, not the up and down that is observed.

      The sun supposedly travels east to west across the sky because of the direction of the earth’s rotation. At night in the arctic circle we would be moving in the opposite direction in relation to the sun, so if we could see the sun at night (which we can from inside the arctic circle) then the sun would appear to be traveling the sky from west to east.

      So what we should see if the earth were a globe is the sun traveling from east to west then slowing and lowering and eventually changing direction to form an oval. This is not what we see. So the globe is debunked.
      I will go with what is proven, not what I was told by a bunch of lying freemasons.

      Airplanes:

      If the earth were a globe aprox. 25,000 miles in circumference, a plane traveling at 300 mph in a straight forward east west trajectory at the equator would be gaining altitude at a rate of 8” x 300m x 300m = 6000 ft. an hour = 1.14 miles an hour = 100 ft. a minute = 1.67 ft. per second.

      This rate would increase exponentially the further north or south you get away from the equator due to the smaller circumference of the globe earth near the poles when traveling in a strictly east to west direction.

      So unless pilots are constantly adjusting for curvature and pointing the nose slightly downward in order to compensate (which they aren’t because the earth is flat) they would be constantly gaining altitude.

      MORE ADDED

      If we were on a spinning globe then people in north America should be being pulled slightly southward (northward in Australia) by the centrifugal force which would be pulling us outward at a 90 degree angle from the axis of rotation which from our perspective would be slightly south. We would always be a little of balance.

      This force should be easily detected and measured if it existed but it isn’t and it hasn’t because it doesn’t exist.

      Lunar eclipses sometimes happen when the sun and moon are both visible in the sky, this proves that it is not the earth’s shadow causing the eclipses.

      • Mongoose

        If we were on a spinning ball orbiting the sun that is orbiting the galactic center that is traveling through space at high speed, (which is not a uniform motion) we would be constantly changing direction, speeding up and slowing down and it would be noticeable.

        Not to mention that the constellations could not have remained the same for thousands of years in that scenario and that the stars closest to us should appear to be passing by faster than the ones that are supposedly billions of light years away instead of them all appearing to move at the same speed.

        • Jango

          Mongoose: The main problem with deniers is that they take one issue and try to prove their point. You have pointed out several reasons why the earth can’t be a globe, all of which are correct. Good Stuff!!

      • Real Expert

        Mongoose said this:

        “If the earth were a globe aprox. 25,000 miles in circumference, a plane traveling at 300 mph in a straight forward east west trajectory at the equator would be gaining altitude at a rate of 8” x 300m x 300m = 6000 ft. an hour = 1.14 miles an hour = 100 ft. a minute = 1.67 ft. per second.

        This rate would increase exponentially the further north or south you get away from the equator due to the smaller circumference of the globe earth near the poles when traveling in a strictly east to west direction.

        So unless pilots are constantly adjusting for curvature and pointing the nose slightly downward in order to compensate (which they aren’t because the earth is flat) they would be constantly gaining altitude.”

        (End of Mongoose quote)

        When we fly airplanes, the main guage used to stay in level flight above the
        globe is called an altimeter. Piloting a plane, requires constant adjustments to
        stay in your assigned altitude corridor. Any deviation from your assigned
        altitude gets the FAA really pissed off. So you are constantly making corrections
        to keep the plane at the same altitude. Or you can set the “auto pilot” to
        do this for you. Either way, you won’t fly into space, because you are
        keeping your nose level with the horizon to maintain a level flightpath.
        Now if we kept out nose level to the horizon on a flat disc, your’d crash!
        But pilots are taught that in order to fly level, you must keep your
        planes nose level to the horizon. When you do that, on a flat disc,
        you would get to the edge of the disc, but since the earth is a globe,
        you can fly all day long with your nose on the horizon, and never
        find an edge. PS.. When aloft, your view is about 250 miles in
        all directions, as the globe tapers from view after that distance.
        Now you know!

    • Judge Roy Bean

      Nonsense!

    • unidentified

      gravity and magnetism are mysteries, earth has a magnetisphere

      • Real Expert

        the earth has a magneti-what?

    • Jostler

      On any given day with scattered high altitude clouds, face west at near sundown. Mark the moment when the sun disappears completely below the horizon.

      Are the clouds still brightly lit even though you now stand in twilight with no direct sunlight hitting you?

      Are the clouds lit from the top, or the bottom?

      Explain what you see in terms of a flat earth.

      Good luck.

      • Real Expert

        Brilliant Jostler! Wish I would have thought of that one!
        You, with one simple thing, blew their entire scenario out
        of the water! You are right! It would be impossible with
        their sun theory for them to be lit from underneath, unless
        they were standing on a globe! Their whole narrative comes
        crashing and burning with your post. Thank You so much!

        Jostler for President 2106

        • Jostler

          To be honest I was recently astonished to discover how much of a “thing” this flat earth discussion has become in some circles. I kept seeing the videos (and laughing) until I began seeing people I know to be otherwise rational and intelligent actually considering the topic.

          It piqued my curiosity to the point it was like your tongue probing the hole left by an extracted tooth and I eventually broke down and watched one of the flat earth proponent’s videos.

          I was astonished to find how seductive this lie can be to those who don’t have a good funamental grasp of physical science, including laws of motion, refraction of light, properties of light, parallax, the effects of the observer’s position and how that affects the observations themseleves, etc.

          Anyway, I started looking for “proofs” I could share that anyone with average intelligence and no fancy scientific equipment could do for themselves and the example above was the first one I found (and so far the best one I’ve found).

          I’ve got another one that isn’t quite as simple and elegant as the “sunset/cloud illumination proof” but it’s still pretty good. I’ll make time to write it up and place it here somewhere tomorrow.

          I gotta hand it to Jawbones above….he did the yeoman’s work and if Jango and Mongoos can simply master the information in the link he provided – I’ll repost it:

          (http://science.howstuffworks.com/question456.htm)

          That alone can deliver someone from the confusion surrounding all this target practice :) .

    • Neo

      If you want to nitpick, YOU ARE ALL WRONG. THE EARTH IS A TORUS! :)

    • HORUS

      I love uneducated folks: flat-earther, end-of-the-worlders, conspiracy nuts and the like – perfect electorate!

    MOST RECENT
    Load more ...

    SignUp

    Login

    Newsletter

    Email this story
    Email this story

    If you really want to ban this commenter, please write down the reason:

    If you really want to disable all recommended stories, click on OK button. After that, you will be redirect to your options page.