The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: Ratboy on January 04, 2018, 03:36:34 PM
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Rowbotham died before Elvis was born but we can do this experiment. Dig out your turntable and Heartbreak Hotel. Put the record down and get it spinning. Roll a marble starting from the middle outward toward the H in Heartbreak. As the marble moves out radially, the spinning record is moving faster than the marble. If you were standing at the H in Heartbreak, you would see the marble move towards the H in Hotel. It is a harder experiment but if you could launch a marble from the edge of the record towards the middle at the rotating speed of the record you would see the marble veer from the H in Hotel to the H in Heartbreak. You can confirm this by giving a kid a ball on a merry go round and have them roll it towards the middle.
Now if there was a low pressure system at New York, air would flow from the north (Montreal) and the south (Virginia Beach). As the air comes down from Montreal it will veer towards Los Angeles and the air from Virginia Beach will veer towards London, UK. This results in a counter clockwise rotation for air moving around a low pressure system. A static earth should not have such consistent air predictions (opposite for high pressure systems).
Now the kicker is that for a person on the B side of the record "I Was The One" such as an Australian (down under) would see the marble (if the record was one of those fancy transparent ones produced after the king stopped recording) move from the O to the I. Low pressure systems in Australia have clockwise rotating air.
Explain to someone whose house has been ripped apart by a tornado that the spinning disc is actually not true.
A spinning disc sure helps to explain why the stars, sun, moon, planets, etc move around on a daily schedule all the same instead of different speeds of orbit a kid with a yo yo would predict.
Most of Rowbotham's arguments stem from the beginning point that the disc is not spinning, such as the lunar eclipse cannot be the shadow of the earth since the earth is stationary. If Elvis is king, maybe the disc spins and Rowbotham should have been born at a time that he could have owned that 45.
Counter arguments?
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I suspect this will just be dumped in Complete Nonsense but I applaud the mostly wasted effort.