Is the Earth a “Spinning” Ball?
What’s wrong with this meme? Is the earth revolving at such a rate as to spin off the oceans into space?
Flat-Earthers back up their claims that the earth is flat by saying that accepted science calls the earth a “spinning” ball. To say the earth is spinning is misleading in my opinion. I think it’s a mind manipulation technique to use that word, because it implies the earth is revolving quickly on its axis. It’s not.
Dictionary result for spin
verb: spin; 3rd person present: spins; past tense: spun; past participle: spun; past tense: span; past participle: span; gerund or present participle: spinning
1. turn or cause to turn or whirl around quickly.
“the girl spun around in alarm”
If you spin a top and it will turn several revolutions per second. If you turn it one revolution per second, would you say you caused it to spin?
How about one revolution per minute?
How about one revolution per hour?
How about one revolution per 24 hours?
Would you call an object the moves half the speed of the hour hand of an analog clock, “spinning”? Our planet earth is revolving at only one revolution every 24 hours. At that rate, I wouldn’t call it spinning, would you?
Do you see my point? Speed is relative to the observer. Flat-earthers say that the earth is spinning 1000 miles an hour at the Equator. They say if the earth is turning so fast, the water of the oceans should fly off the planet! But it doesn’t fly off. Is gravity — something that Flat Earthers also doubt — the only reason why? Water doesn’t fly off the revolving earth for the same reason it wouldn’t fly off a wet tennis ball that is turned on its axis once every 24 hours.
Just try it, Flat-Earthers. Take a tennis ball, soak it in water, and turn it slowly enough so it makes only a single revolution over a period of 24 hours, and see how much water flies off it.
Is 1000 miles per hour “fast”? Yes, if you happen to be flying in an airplane. Interestingly, the closer a plane comes to the ground, the faster it appears to be flying even though its speed is considerably slower when descending than when flying at 30,000 feet or 10,000 meters.
I once observed a plane landing while standing in Barrigada Heights, Guam. I had a clear view of the airport which was at least two miles away. Though the plane approached the runway at approximately 170 miles an hour, from my viewpoint two miles away, the plane approached the runway ever so slowly, and landed ever so gently. Speed is relative to the observer!
Just look at this silly meme! It’s downright foolish for all of the reasons above. And yet Flat Earthers believe it! Talk about mind manipulation! It’s the meme that doesn’t hold water!
I believe that Flat Earth is a covert psyop promoted by a group of organized disinformation agents, who are possibly working for the CIA, possibly working even for NASA, with the intent to mislead Bible believing Christians to believe something that is not so to make them look foolish in the eyes of the world and hurt their testimony of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.