(October 21, 2018 at 4:30 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:Actually the sun is orbiting the galactic centre which is itself moving in relation to other galaxies.(October 21, 2018 at 2:08 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: I tried to argue with my 7 year old niece last night who kept saying that the sun and sun down were two different things.
She wouldn't accept that it was the Sun that was going down. She saw the two events of a normal sun shining overhead and the Sun about to set as two separate things, not as one thing seen from different points of view.
It's going to be a rough day when I explain that humans are indeed animals and that one day an alien will implant it's egg in her stomach and she'll be pregnant.
She's actually correct.
The sun stays put, shining in place.
The Earth rotates and creates the appearance of "sun down".
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
