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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Question about perspective.

« on: June 04, 2017, 08:12:55 PM »

Yes, I know.   I'm hoping someone in the FE world will explain why their diagram is wrong.

Um no. Their worldview is the think that's wrong. The earth is a globe.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A question about meteors

« on: June 04, 2017, 08:10:56 PM »

If acceleration is universal, why are there meteors at all? There must be some differential in our speeds if the meteor collides with earth at 72k m/s.

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Flat Earth Theory / A question about meteors

« on: June 04, 2017, 02:21:43 PM »

According to the American Meteor Society, the fastest of meteors enter the atmosphere at 72,000 m/s. (http://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-faq/). Your wiki tells me the earth is always accelerating at 9.8m/s². Therefore, each second the earth goes 9.8 m/s faster. You explain the reason the earth isn't moving faster than the speed of light is because of Special Relativity, but we are therefore moving minutely slower than the speed of light, which, in a vacuum, is 299,792,458 m/s.

My question is: If the earth is moving more than 299 million m/s, why when our path runs into rocks that are otherwise stationary is our comparative speed (velocity₁-velocity₂) only 72,000 m/s?

It isn't viable to say that the meteors are moving at 299,792,458-72000m/s, because then all meteors have to be moving in the same direction with the earth and if, as can be predicted, not all meteors are moving in the same direction, and some must be moving in the opposite direction as us in which case they would collide with us at 299,792,458+72000m/s