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Video - Sun Rising Over the Horizon
Video - Sun Rising Over the Horizon

A Mid-Autumn Hokku

Our earth rotating,
Slowly, from west to east;
Sunrise illusion.
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Enlarge the image and turn the sound volume all the way up!
I recorded this at a pond about 2 miles from my house.
As our planet rotates in the direction of the sun, it looks as if the sun in rising, when it's not. The sun is not going around the earth, as it appears to be doing. This is an illusion. Our spin makes it look that way, though.

For hundreds of years the catholic church believed that the sun (and everything else in the sky) was going around the earth. Afterall, you can see the sun come up in the east, go around the earth, set in the west, and come up again the next day in the east. Isn't that proof that the sun is going around the earth?
In 1616 Pope Paul V and the catholic Inquisition (the thought police) condemned anyone who believed otherwise. In 1633, Pope Urban VIII placed Galileo under house arrest for the rest of his life, for believing that the earth revolves around the sun.
In 1992, 359 years later, the catholic church finally agreed that they were wrong!!!!! They finally accepted the fact that the earth was, indeed, going around the sun... 1992!!!!!
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-accused-of...
Southern Kentucky, USA.

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Taken on: September 15, 2024
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