Coriolis Effect at the Equator: Evidence Against a Stationary Flat Earth
Watch this neat experiment in Uganda, one of the countries in Africa that are intersected by the equator. Water in a bowl just a few meters north of the equator drains down a spout in a clockwise direction, and just south of the equator, water in a bowl drains down a spout in a counterclockwise (anticlockwise) direction. Right on the equator, water in a bowl doesn’t drain down in either direction, the water just goes straight down through the spout. Please watch the short video clip for a clearer understanding.
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@ade_towale At the EQUATOR
This is called the Coriolis effect and it’s due to the Coriolis force, an apparent force that as a result of the earth’s rotation deflects moving objects (such as projectiles or air currents) to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. Typhoons in the Pacific and hurricanes in the Atlantic are both in the northern hemisphere and spin (as seen from above) in a counterclockwise direction due to Coriolis force. Cyclones are in the southern hemisphere and spin in a clockwise direction due to the Coriolis force. And this force is caused by the rotation of the earth which is fastest at the equator and gets slower and slower the further north or south you go from the equator.
A hurricane in the Northern Atlantic.
Typhoon Mawar in the Northern Western Pacific near Guam.
A cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere
When I lived in Japan, I met a young man from Australia who told me one of the first things he did after arriving at the Tokyo International Airport, was to go to a restroom to see if the water in a sink would flow down the drain in a clockwise direction. It did of course. He was used to seeing water drain down the sink in a counterclockwise direction in Australia. Both Australia and Japan are thousands of kilometers from the equator. The cool thing about this experiment in Uganda is it was done only a few meters, only 10 meters or so, north and south of the equator.
The results of the demonstration is clear evidence for a rotating spherical earth. Flat earthers call a spherical rotating earth a NASA lie, and I call Flat earthers sadly deceived by a CIA psyop. Folks, the academic world believed the earth was a sphere at least from 2200 years ago when Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the circumference of the earth to be around 39,060 to 40,320 kilometers. That’s pretty close to what it actually is. Don’t be deceived by the CIA’s covert Flat Earth propaganda! Its aim is to marginalize Bible believers and make Christians look like fools in the eyes of the unbelieving world! Yes, you can say there are lies in the scientific and academic world, Darwin’s evolution being the principal one, but if all science was false you wouldn’t be reading this on your phone or computer screen right now because it was science that created the technology that brought about your device.
Some folks who believe the earth is flat and stationary say if the earth is spinning at 1670 kilometers an hour at the equator, the oceans would fly off into space! My friends, the perception of speed is relative to the viewer. The higher a jet airplane appears in the sky, the slower it appears to fly. The earth is revolving only one revolution per 24 hours. If you took a tennis ball, dipped in it water, and spun it like a top several revolutions per second, yes, water would fly off it. How about if you could revolve it only a single revolution over a 24-hour period? I bet you couldn’t even turn it that slow without some kind of mechanical device similar to what mechanical clocks use. Water would not fly off the tennis ball at that slow speed and gravity is not even a factor like it is with a revolving earth.
I don’t mean to offend Flat Earthers. I love people. It hurts me to see Christians and Bible believers destroy their credibility and testimony for Christ by repeating falsehoods they heard on YouTube. I submit to you there would be no Flat Earth movement today if it wasn’t for YouTube. Why does YouTube censor certain videos that tell you the truth and permit videos that tell you lies? Because the Devil is the prince of the power of the air (Ep 2:2) and he’s trying to lead you astray.
It was a total shock for me to see Texe Marrs, a Christian pastor, and conspiracy researcher who I liked, to interview Edward Hendrie and promote Hendrie’s book, “The Greatest Lie on Earth: Proof That Our World Is Not a Moving Globe.” Texe called Hendrie a “fine Christian man.” But not only did Hendrie go to Notre Dame, a Jesuit high school in South Bend Indiana, he also went to a Jesuit law school! It’s not outside the realm of possibility that Hendrie is in fact an undercover Jesuit inflitrator in Christian society. Yearly tuition for Notre Dame is $63,000! You have to be part of the Roman Catholic elite to attend such schools. And maybe Texe Marrs himself wasn’t what he appeared. He was a close friend of Alex Jones.
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