Flat Earthers Cannot Comprehend Simple Motion
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 Published On Sep 22, 2015

A recurring conundrum that appears to vex flat-Earthers is the fact that, while the planet's rotation results in a tangential velocity at the Earth's surface of 1,000 mph, we don't have issues moving around. They're perplexed that the atmosphere rotates along with the rest of the planet. In their view, the atmosphere should be stationary and the wind should be blowing at 1,000 mph. They're further baffled as to why flights have the same duration East to West as West to East, and why, when we jump up into the air, we don't land hundreds of feet away.

Meanwhile, jugglers such as Peter Rosendahl don't seem to have any issues with all this motion, even when performing their acts on cruise ships to further complicate things.

Source of Peter Rosendahl clip:    • Peter Rosendahl - Unicycle show on wo...  
Peter Rosendahl's page: http://www.peterrosendahl.com/en/

The footage of Peter Rosendahl performing his act is pretty grainy. I checked Mr. Rosendahl's website but video wasn't available there.

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The full "Planetary-Style Fluid Dynamics" demonstration video can be found at the link below. I only inlcluded a short segment of it. It's a very good demonstration by Jonathan Aurnou & John Cantwell of UCLA Earth & Space Sciences Simulated Planetary Interiors Lab (spinlab).

Source of fluid dynamics clip:    • Video  

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I'm not sure which nutter video I pulled the flat-Earth documentary footage out of. I have found the same footage in a dozen or so Flat-Earther videos. The origin of the footage, however, is a film called "In Search of the Edge" which was intended as "A lesson in critical thinking and media literacy."

From the link provided below:
"This is an essential lesson in media literacy for a generation plugged into television. Provoke critical thinking in your students and help them to become aware of the devices used in documentary media; the history of scientific paradigms; and their own willingness to take things at face value. "

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/...

Amusingly, I could not find the source of this documentary footage for some time and I assumed it was intended to be serious since I only encountered the footage on conspiracy theory websites.

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