Yes, I have a mind so I use it. The simple fact of the matter is if we did live in a geocentric universe then that also means the calculations we use to determine the location of planets and their future locations to send spacecraft to would be wrong and they’d miss every time. It’s math.
Wind is caused by the movement of gases or objects through those gases in our atmosphere. Those gases have a certain amount of resistance to them. Space…being a vacuum and all has so little to no resistance to objects that it causes no wind.
I can’t believe I’m actually explaining this garbage, this is grade school education.
‘Expain’, you must be joking, you wouldn’t get past the entrance exam to a grade school.
SPACE FLIGHT
‘But what about space flight’, we hear j1akey ask. ‘These days, don’t the newspapers and journals show us diagrams of rockets blasting off from an earth rotating and orbiting the sun? How could they get probes, crafts and even men to land on the planets unless they know for certain where the earth is supposed to be at any time in its orbit relative to the other planets also in orbit? Surely all those astrophysicists and rocket-science whiz kids that fill the computer halls of NASA’s launch site have to keep ongoing calculations of this heliocentric circus of shifting bodies while moving at 67,000mph, more than the speed of a bullet? And when aimed at a planet, then the planet too will have shifted some thousands of miles in one second. Can one even imagine the computations necessary for space flight via j1akey and other Copernicans.
The answer of course is that this concept too is fiction, as a letter to the New Scientist magazine of Aug. 16, 1979 confirmed:
Royal Air Force College
Cranwell, Linclonshire, England.
‘Sir, …One can of course believe anything one likes as long as the consequences of the belief are trivial. But when survival depends on that belief, then it matters that belief corresponds to manifest reality. We therefore teach navigators that the stars are fixed to the Celestial sphere, which is centred on a fixed earth, and around which it rotates in accordance with laws clearly deducible from common-sense observation. The sun and moon move across the inner surface of this sphere, and hence perforce go around the earth. This means that students of navigation must unlearn a lot of confused dogma they learned in school. Most of them find this remarkably easy, because dogma is as may be, but the real world is as we perceive it to be. If Andrew Hill will look in the Journal of Navigation he will find that the Earth-centred Universe is alive and well, whatever his readings of the Spectator may suggest.
Yours, Darcy Reddyhoff.’
Martin Gwynne completes our education:
‘Not the least interesting thing in the passage just quoted is the officer’s use of the term “confused dogma” when speaking of modern astronomy. For the sake of completeness I shall now fill in any gaps he left that might interest readers by giving the following summary of the principles of celestial navigation. (1) Celestial navigation is based on the premise of two concentric spheres – one (celestial) larger than the other – sharing a common pole, with the smaller and inner sphere remaining stationary while the outer revolves about it. (2) Calculations are based on the laws of spherical trigonometry. The measurements used to translate the computations into a position or “fix” on the earth are done in nautical miles (even in these days of almost universal metrication). Each of these 360 degrees of the circle is divided into 60 minutes. The nautical mile is defined as the length of one minute of longitude on the equator, or 6,080 feet. (3) The tables used to reduce or compute the resultant observations are based on 360 degrees. (4) All the navigators of the world use the same basic system, their calculations and charts being based on a fixed earth and the basic unit of the nautical mile.’
Yes, unbelievable isn’t it, they use the old geocentric system of navigation and it works for them. If any doubt how they calculate where the sun, moon, planets will be at any given time go to the Encyclopedia Britannica (Eclipse, p.869) and you will find the following propaganda:
‘For this purpose it is convenient first to consider the earth as fixed and to suppose the observer looking out from its centre…’
Of course it is, very convenient indeed. No doubt, for planetary flight, they could use a heliocentric system, taking into account all the moving bodies and the 15,000 Newtonian variables they say is necessary to work past the ‘perturbations’ in Kepler’s ellipse to find them, but, as the odds will confirm, there is no guarantee they would actually get their calculations right. I for one, if I were blasting off, would make sure they base their directions on geocentric reality, not heliocentric rhetoric.
NOW THAT IS EXPLAINING.
As for ‘wind in your hair’, this was metaphorical and it meant without any physical sensation at all. Moving at 67.000mph without even noticing it, yet the rotation of the universe must be expalinable for j1akey or he won’t believe it rotates.
Which brings us to another interesting question;
According to Galileo’s accepted physics, if a rocket leaves the earth that is supposed to be moving at 67,000mph, shouldn’t it leave the earth at its launch speed of 5,000mph or whatever speed is necessary to get through the 'gravitational field to open space, PLUS its earth speed of 67,000mph, that is, at a true speed of 72,000mph? Now I have not bothered to check this out, but I bet NASA calculates arrival time at distance divided by 25,000mph or whatever speed relative to the anti-gravity speed they use to get into open space. Surely, if we are to follow Galileo, then shouldn’t it be distance divided by 72,000mph for starters no matter what way they calculate their figures?