The Moon landing isnвЂ™t the only, or the oldest error in вЂњscience.вЂќД®dit to add: clarity of writing isnвЂ™t my strong point. I am merely saying that a light source (the sun or your dining room ceiling light) will strike objects at different locations at a different angle without being an indication that the surface the objects are on is a sphere. He took this to indicate the surface of the Earth was a sphere. Precisely one year later he observed the sun was casting a slight shadow down a different townsвЂ™ well. (I wouldnвЂ™t ask you to drill two holes in your dining room table) Eratosthenes observed the sunlight shining straight down a well in one town. The straws are a substitute for Eratosthenes Egyptian wells at different locations. Your dining room table did not rotate in space. However, with a more serious gyro that will spin itвЂ™s flywheel for as long as itвЂ™s powered, such as an aviation instrument, you will observe no change in a twenty-four hour period sitting on your dining room table. You can clearly see the globe revolving in front of you and the motion of the gyrosвЂ™ flywheel relative to the plane of the surface on the globe that you positioned. (The inexpensive childsвЂ™ gyro will only spin fast enough to neutralize precession for less than a minute.) A complete rotation of the globe will show the plain of the flywheel makes one complete rotation relative to the globesвЂ™ surface also. A fifteen second spin of the globe will do nicely. You will observe the flywheel changing itвЂ™s plain of rotation relative to the plain of the surface at your location. Now, maintaining the axle perpendicular to the surface itвЂ™s on, (your location on the globe) begin turning the globe to the east. (as it would be on your dining room table) Then give the string a good tug.

Make sure the flywheel is parallel to the surface. Put it on a globe with the axle touching the spot you are on earth pointing 90 degrees from the surface. Take one of those inexpensive kidsвЂ™ gyros sold at toy stores, the kind you energize by pulling a string around the flywheel axle. It will remain in the plain it began at for the entire 24 hour day. It would show the plain of rotation of the flywheel changing by 15 degrees each hour. If it were the gyro would behave as I described. The gyroscope on the dining room table is to show the Earth is not spinning. If I remember my basic high school science history that proves your dining room table is spherical and that careful measurement of the angular difference will indicate itвЂ™s circumference.

Thanks to electricity you will not even need to wait precisely one year for the light source to be in itвЂ™s exact location for the measuring. If you set a one inch piece of a drinking straw on that same table right under the ceiling light so that the light goes straight down the straw (or water well) and another one inch piece of a drinking straw a few feet away from the first, to simulate two water wells, you will observe the light from the ceiling does not go straight down the second straw. Every hour it will appear to change itвЂ™s plane of rotation by 15 degrees, 180 degrees in twelve hours, 360 degrees in 24. Surely the Hubble space telescope isnвЂ™t fake too.ДЄ quality gyroscope sitting on your dining room table will prove we are on a spinning ball. Do stars only become visible when their light passes through the atmosphere?

There are never any stars in the background of the вЂњphotographsвЂќ from the space station.

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