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BBC News - 'Ring of fire' eclipse to sweep across Earth https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57420056
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Hardly amazing. The amazing bit is convincing you lot that it's round and people live upside down and rivers run up hill, and its spinning really fast. That's amazing.It's amazing to me that the beings that made the sky above this flat earth managed to get the sun and the moon the same size so we'd get eclipses.
When I was at college one of my 'modules' involved the design of very tall buildings. Some were so tall that we had to take account of the coriolis effect. Interesting thing to fake on a 'flat' world.Hardly amazing. The amazing bit is convincing you lot that it's round and people live upside down and rivers run up hill, and its spinning really fast. That's amazing.
Unfortunately I have no idea what you've just said AF, but it's definitely flat.When I was at college one of my 'modules' involved the design of very tall buildings. Some were so tall that we had to take account of the coriolis effect. Interesting thing to fake on a 'flat' world.
Every days a school day.Think of it like this. You are at the top of a very tall building and you drop something down a lift shaft and measure it's path.
It is not vertical, by the bottom it will have deviated from the 'vertical' by a measurable amount. This is because, the rotation of the earth, 465 m/sec at the equator, means that the bottom of the shaft will have moved significantly during the time taken for the object to fall from top to bottom.
This is a real measurable effect, it has to be taken into account when designing lifts. One of the reasons why in tall older buildings the lifts rarely go from the very top to the very bottom.
This is the Coriolis effect, it also explains why cyclones rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the south.
Sorry Outfoxed, there is no such thing as gravity, only 'curved space'.Every days a school day.
Now if you could just explain gravity to Jackie we might be getting somewhere.