"Scientist" finds that the Earth isn't rotating.

[laconicsax]

http://skepchick.org/2012/02/scientist-finds-the-earth-isnt-rotating/

This is huge news, you guys. Huge! It was announced back in September but somehow I completely missed it. You see, one scientist by the name of fernieboy100, published his research in the venerable journal YouTube, showing without a doubt that the Bible is true and science is false because the Earth is most definitely not rotating.

OK, I know that it’s 30 minutes long and you have better things to do with your time like figuring out who you’re going to vote for in the Prezoodential elections at Franklin Park Zoo (um Stella the Red Panda, no duh), but this is important! Oh fine, I’ll try my best to sum up the entire video in one sentence:

“The Earth isn’t rotating because if it was, we’d all be motion sick from moving at 1,000 miles an hour.”

That is the argument, re-stated again and again, through all 30 minutes of the video. Go on, have a look. If you must skip most of it, at least don’t you dare miss the part around the 23-minute mark where it’s just a string of videos showing people falling off things.

fernieboy100 maintains that the Earth’s atmosphere is not a solid – it is a gas (note: this has been confirmed by godless heathen scientists). When a hot air balloon is hanging in the air, the Earth isn’t spinning beneath it. “Scientists” would tell you that this is because the Earth’s atmosphere moves along with the rotation of the Earth, but fernieboy100 proves conclusively that the gas around a solid does not move with the solid.

[liberal N proud]

1. It's flat too.

[laconicsax]

3. Good point.

If the spherical earth theory were true, everything where I live would be slanted to 45^o, but do you see that when I use a spirit level? Of course not.

Proof positive that the Earth is flat.

[johnd83]

4. The crazy thing is the Ancient Greeks had a pretty good estimate on the circumference of the earth

We knew the Earth was round hundreds of years before Jesus was born. And yet some Americans actually think the world is flat. During the era of Copernicus when we figured out that the earth was spinning around the sun the Catholic church had a hugely complex theory to explain the earth being the center of the solar system. They fought heliocentrism for hundreds of years. Apparently the battle isn't over yet.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. YouTube is a peer-reviewed journal

It's got comments. Pro and con, even.

[Warpy]

5. Don't break the news to him about how fast

the solar system is careening around the galactic core or how fast the galaxy, itself is moving. Why, we'd all get blown off at that speed!!

Dumb people sure are entertaining.

[csziggy]

8. Someone should post The Galaxy Song video as a rebuttal

[dimbear]

6. It actually is an interesting question whether the interior rotates at the same speed as the crust.

Or whether, like the sun, different parts rotate at different speeds. Probably it does, but if it doesn't it might explain how the earth's magnetic field flips every so often.

[laconicsax]

7. I would assume that it doesn't.

IIRC, the mantle has currents and convection, which would create different speeds in different places. If that's true, then there wouldn't be much reason for the liquid outer core to rotate at a uniform rate across its surface. No idea about the inner core though. It has to rotate, but I have no idea how fast. I also read somewhere that the inner and outer cores rotate at different speeds.

ETA: I looked it up and found this--http://www.livescience.com/9313-earth-core-rotates-faster-surface-study-confirms.html I slapped my forehead when I read it too (figuratively), because of course a liquid iron outer core would generate a magnetic field that interacts with the inner core, potentially affecting its rotation.

EATA: I meant to say a liquid iron core rotating at a different speed than a solid nickle-iron core.

[sulphurdunn]

21. The core rotates slightly faster than the

crust. Enough so, that it amounts to an extra core rotation about every 900 years.

[mr blur]

9. Well, I'm convined - and

if it's moving so quickly, how come we don't fall off?

[MineralMan]

16. It's either gravity or the Earth sucks.

Both hypotheses have a certain merit, I suppose.

[laconicsax]

17. Both hypotheses are wrong.

The obvious answer is Intelligent Falling; the only theory that takes God into account.

IF is best explained by starting with gravitation and realizing what the "G" in both Newtonian and general relativity stands for. All evidence for gravitation is also evidence for Falling, and Falling goes the extra step of explaining the "why."

I expect my Discovery Institute grant and/or Templeton prize any day now.

[dimbear]

10. This story might reinforce your belief in the world's turning. From "Startling."

http://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/list_by_mag.php?page=42

Download "The Night the World Turned Over."

halfway down the page.

[fightforfreedom123]

11. Does that mean

It is always going to be sunlight on one side of the world and moonlight on the other?

[laconicsax]

12. I think it means that the geocentric model is correct.

[SwissTony]

13. Sorry, stuck it out for 3 minutes but couldn't take any more

Has this bozo never been on a bus, tram, train or plane? If you've ever travelled on a plane, you know that if you get out of your seat to go to the toilet, are immediately swept to the back of the plane at a speed of 800kph. If you survive this, you will be unable to return to your seat. I have travelled many times from Europe to Australia and this has happened to me every time.

OK, I'm bullshitting...but no more than this guy.

[laconicsax]

14. I'm reminded of something from a couple hundred years ago.

I don't remember who said it, but it was something like a warning of the recklessness of a train going 15 mph because everyone would suffocate, presumably because it's impossible to breathe the stationary air when moving that fast.

[SwissTony]

15. Yes, I remember reading this

Of course, that meant entire populations would perish when a decent wind was blowing.

And they did, didn't they? Or was it only those with their backs to the wind?

[guardian]

18. The video IS absolute proof

that stupidity has no limits.

[Marrah_G]

19. If ignorance is bliss........

then this is the most blissful guy on the planet

[Hugabear]

20. He convinced me.

After all, scientists have NEVER done any experiments to prove the earth is rotating.