200 Proofs that Eric Dubay is a liar and an idiot

"If Earth were a spinning ball revolving around the Sun it would actually be impossible for star-trail photos to show perfect circles even at the North Pole! Since the Earth is also allegedly moving 67,000 mph around the Sun, the Sun moving 500,000 mph around the Milky Way, and the entire galaxy going 670,000,000 mph, these four contradictory motions would make star-trail time-lapses all show irregular curved lines." Dubay does not understand  far away stars are and how that affects our ability to see their motion. It is true, the Earth orbits the Sun, The Sun orbits our Galaxy, the stars within our galaxy move relative to each other in seemingly random directions and our galaxy moves relative to other galaxies in relatively random directions. However, what Dubay fails to understand yet again is that the distances involved are absolutely huge. The Earth's orbit around the Sun Let us first consider the movement that we would see caused by the Earth's orbit...

"To quote William Carpenter, “Why, in the name of common sense, should observers have to fix their telescopes on solid stone bases so that they should not move a hair's breadth,  if the Earth on which they fix them moves at the rate of nineteen miles in a second?  Indeed, to believe that ‘six thousand million million million tons’ is rolling, surging, flying, darting on through space for ever with a velocity compared with which a shot from a cannon is a very slow coach,  with such unerring accuracy that a telescope fixed on granite pillars in an observatory will not enable a lynx-eyed astronomer to detect a variation in its onward motion of the thousandth part of a hair's breadth is to conceive a miracle compared with which all the miracles on record put together would sink into utter insignificance.  Since we can, (in middle north latitudes), see the North Star, on looking out of a window that faces it - and out of the very same corner of the very same pane of glass...