31. Dubay quotes a Flat Earth believer who believes that the rotating Earth would cause a tremendous wind

“Quoting “Zetetic Cosmogeny” Thomas Winships states: “Let ‘imagination’ picture to the mind what force air would have which was set in motion by a spherical body of 8,000 miles in diameter, which in one hour was spinning round 1,000 mph, rushing through space at 65,000 mph and gyrating across the heavens? Then let ‘conjecture’ endeavor to discover whether the inhabitants on such a globe could keep their hair on? If the earth-globe rotates on its axis at the terrific rate of 1,000 miles an hour, such an immense mass would of necessity cause a tremendous rush of wind in the space it occupied. The wind would go all one way, and anything like clouds which got ‘within the sphere of influence’ of the rotating sphere, would have to go the same way. The fact that the earth is at rest is proved by kite flying.”

Dubay makes the same point as proof 28 and proof 29, but this time tries to add a little extra credibility by quoting someone else making the point.  As before Dubay and the person he quotes do not understand that the atmosphere rotates with the Earth, meaning that relative to us and the Earth the atmosphere is stationary.   They also do not understand that winds are relative to the moving atmosphere.


If you were to stand still in a 10 mph eastward wind, you would feel that wind.  If you then travelled eastward and sped up to 10 mph, the wind that you felt would become weaker and weaker and stop altogether when you reached 10 mph.

In the same way, we do not feel the 1000 mph eastward wind because we are also travelling eastward at 1000 mph because we are standing on a spinning Earth.

There IS NO WIND due to the atmosphere rotating with the Earth.


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