150. If the Earth was a spinning ball stars would be seen to travel more or less horizontally across the observer’s horizon
"If Earth were a spinning ball it would be impossible to photograph star-trail time-lapses turning perfect circles around Polaris anywhere but the North Pole. At all other vantage points the stars would be seen to travel more or less horizontally across the observer’s horizon due to the alleged 1000 mph motion beneath their feet. In reality, however, Polaris’s surrounding stars can always be photographed turning perfect circles around the central star all the way down to the Tropic of Capricorn."
Utter nonsense!
Dubay is getting very confused here … again. If you were standing at the North Pole the stars would be revolving around the celestial pole directly above your head. If you then looked at the horizon, the starts at the horizon would indeed look like they were travelling horizontally.
However Dubay claims the exact opposite. He claims that if you were standing at a latitude of say 20 degrees North, where Polaris is low in the sky the stars at the horizon, those stars close to Polaris would appear to travel horizontally instead of in a circle around Polaris.
How would that work? For that to happen they would have to be moving further away from Polaris as the night progressed, which is obviously just silly.
And what he thinks the speed of the Earth’s rotation has to do with anything I can’t even guess at.
How anyone can take Dubay seriously when he comes up with stuff like this beats me.
Also, please consider that on a flat Earth the stars should rotate anti-clockwise about Polaris from every location on Earth. Dubay stops at the Tropic of Capricorn still well into the northern hemisphere because to consider any latitudes in the southern hemisphere he would have to either confront the fact that the stars rotate clockwise about the celestial south pole, something which is impossible on a flat Earth, ... or lie about it.
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Utter nonsense!
Dubay is getting very confused here … again. If you were standing at the North Pole the stars would be revolving around the celestial pole directly above your head. If you then looked at the horizon, the starts at the horizon would indeed look like they were travelling horizontally.
However Dubay claims the exact opposite. He claims that if you were standing at a latitude of say 20 degrees North, where Polaris is low in the sky the stars at the horizon, those stars close to Polaris would appear to travel horizontally instead of in a circle around Polaris.
How would that work? For that to happen they would have to be moving further away from Polaris as the night progressed, which is obviously just silly.
And what he thinks the speed of the Earth’s rotation has to do with anything I can’t even guess at.
How anyone can take Dubay seriously when he comes up with stuff like this beats me.
Also, please consider that on a flat Earth the stars should rotate anti-clockwise about Polaris from every location on Earth. Dubay stops at the Tropic of Capricorn still well into the northern hemisphere because to consider any latitudes in the southern hemisphere he would have to either confront the fact that the stars rotate clockwise about the celestial south pole, something which is impossible on a flat Earth, ... or lie about it.
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