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33. Gravity strong enough to hold oceans to a spherical Earth would stop fish swimming

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“If “gravity” is credited with being a force strong enough to curve the massive expanse of oceans around a globular Earth, it would be impossible for fish and other creatures to swim through such forcefully held water.” This is similar to proof 32 .  Again a false and unsubstantiated claim with no supporting figures. Gravity does not need to be a strong force, it just needs to be stronger than any other force acting to throw us away from the earth.  The only other force that possibly do this is centrifugal force caused by the spinning earth.  It is no surprise that this force is much much weaker than gravity (At the equator It would only reduce a person’s weight by 0.3%). Think of it as a tug of war between two extremely feeble people.  The absolute strength of the people pulling is irrelevant.  The only thing that is important is which person is stronger.  The stronger person will inevitably and unstopably move the other person in their direction...

32. Gravity strong enough to hold oceans and atmosphere to Earth would stop birds, bugs and planes from flying

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“If “gravity” is credited with being a force strong enough to hold the world’s oceans, buildings, people and atmosphere stuck to the surface of a rapidly spinning ball, then it is impossible for “gravity” to also simultaneously be weak enough to allow little birds, bugs, and planes to take-off and travel freely unabated in any direction.” Yet another false and unsubstantiated claim.  As usual no figures are provided. How can the weak force of gravity also be strong enough to keep us on the earth?  It isn’t hard to figure out …  it is because the only other force acting on us to push us away from the earth, i.e. centrifugal force caused by the spinning earth, is even weaker.  E.g. At the equator It constitutes only 0.3% of a persons weight. Problem solved. Gravity is weak, but in the absence of any other significantly strong force acting on the oceans, atmosphere, buildings, and people it is enough to keep everything sufficiently grounded. In the unlikely ev...

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

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“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 a...

30. Dubay quotes historical figures observing higher clouds travelling in the different directions to lower clouds and claims that this is only compatible with a Flat Earth

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“In his book “South Sea Voyages,” Arctic and Antarctic explorer Sir James Clarke Ross, described his experience on the night of November 27th, 1839 and his conclusion that the Earth must be motionless: “The sky being very clear … it enabled us to observe the higher stratum of clouds to be moving in an exactly opposite direction to that of the wind--a circumstance which is frequently recorded in our meteorological journal both in the north-east and south-east trades, and has also often been observed by former voyagers. Captain Basil Hall witnessed it from the summit of the Peak of Teneriffe; and Count Strzelechi, on ascending the volcanic mountain of Kiranea, in Owhyhee, reached at 4000 feet an elevation above that of the trade wind, and experienced the influence of an opposite current of air of a different hygrometric and thermometric condition … Count Strzelechi further informed me of the following seemingly anomalous circumstance--that at the height of 6000 feet he found the current ...

29. If the atmosphere were spinning eastwards at 1000 mph we would see, hear and feel it

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“If the Earth and its atmosphere were constantly spinning Eastwards over 1000 mph, this should somewhere somehow be seen, heard, felt or measured by someone, yet no one in history has ever experienced this alleged Eastward motion; meanwhile, however, we can hear, feel and experimentally measure even the slightest Westward breeze.” This is making the same point as proof 28 .  As before Dubay does not understand that winds are relative to the moving atmosphere. By “experienced this alleged eastward motion” he presumably thinks we should be experiencing a 1000 mph wind. 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. He may also be...