On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 5:38:50 PM UTC+1, Mike Collins wrote:
Gerald Kelleher wrote:

It is well over a decade since I used the analogy of walking/orbiting a
central object/Sun to demonstrate as an analogy how all parts of your
body face the central object (chair,table, ect) as you complete that
orbit. This not only represents the cause of the polar day/night cycle in
isolation but also when combined with daily rotations creates the seasons
and the variations in the natural noon cycle.



If you had any powers of visualisation you wouldn’t write such rubbish. If
I walk anti - clockwise in a circle around an object (starting from the
east) my left side is facing the object at all times. All parts of my body
will not face the object. Of course as I walk around the object I will face
north then west then south then east and after I reach 360 degrees north
again. So I will have rotated 360 degrees as I walked around. If I faced
North all the time I would have had to shuffle with a awkward gait going
sideways forwards and backwards in an uneasy combination.
That’s why the moon needs to rotate to keep one face visible from Earth.
Try this with a convenient tree.

I see a big to-do in the other thread about atheist or agnostic but you can throw in secularist,humanist and a whole bunch of other different variations to describe mediocrity as opposed to be spiritual/inspirational. It is the inability to be inspired by nature itself that prevents you from enjoying something so simple as the moon's orbital motion and its phases, the normal day/night cycle and its rotational cause, the partitioning of direct/retrogrades by faster or slower moving planets seen from a moving Earth, the cause of the Polar day/night cycle and so many other things.

https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm

The last bit of light from the Sun is now almost gone as the South Pole continues to turn away from the Sun (turn parallel to the orbital plane) with only the reflected light of the moon to periodically to light up the Polar darkness. I haven't been to the South Pole but I have been inside the Arctic circle where I experienced that day/night cycle and how it hits the body's cicadian rhythm for sixes.

The Polar day/night cycle and the rotation behind it brings back observers to the stationary (at least for solar system purposes) and central Sun as the reference used where the North and South poles where daily rotation is zero acts as a fixed referenced point for the orbital rotation as a function of the orbital motion of the Earth. All planets have these dual surface rotations with Uranus being the most enjoyable ( 50 seconds in when the time lapse speeds up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=612gSZsplpE


Saying there is no God is like saying you can't be inspired or inspiring so while the declaration may sound self-important, it is funny for those who are spiritual. None of you seem connected to the planet that makes life possible but only make a kind of individual scream at each other.