you really took the title of the video completely literalthat is for clicks
Watch what he says right here at 3:35
is by using the word priests for scientist your way of saying that most religious leaders and scientists are con artists?
it's just for visual reference. The actual earth is so massive that by the time you backed up far enough away it would still just look like a perfect sphere.
That picture still isn't displaying a pear-shaped oblate spheroid with a bulge below the equatorit's just for visual reference. The actual earth is so massive that by the time you backed up far enough away it would still just look like a perfect sphere.
Notice the numbers on this one. Now, remember that the earth is a whole order of magnitude larger in size. The effect of the diameter difference just isn't perceivable to us. It's still there though.
This is also effected by the moon and our own orbit around the sun. Because the center of density of all of the masses in the group technically rotates around each other, the actual "center" of the earth isn't at its geographic center either. This is my hypothesis for the strange bulge.
the owner of the channel used pear to attract attention. Just like the videos you got your theories from.
In the 1800s they called it yellow journalism. That's happening today on the internet.
thats because the only lie about the video is in the title. "Pear shaped" is the inconsistency
Because that's how a pear looksthats because the only lie about the video is in the title. "Pear shaped" is the inconsistency
because your brain immediately thinks this:
stop falling for marketing
because when people want to get points across, its easier to make connections using language that is more human
I know that the term "pear-shaped oblate spheroid" doesn't make sensebecause when people want to get points across, its easier to make connections using language that is more human
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is HEAVILY popular for that attribute. There are many scientists that are smarter or have made a greater contribution but lack his storytelling
That said, a pear has changes in its diameter in both the X and Y planes. The earth only has this in one plane (the diameter is not smaller at one pole than it is at the other). Thus why the term oblate spheroid makes sense.
Oblate means flattened at the poles. Which is actually how the earth is. This gif is how the solar system looks when your point of reference is outside of it.
thats because once again its still just marketing
But that's not what's happening thoughthats because once again its still just marketing
take this gif for instance. It appears it is moving very fast right? Well, what if everything around it is also moving very fast...but in the same general direction?
That's exactly what is happening in our galaxy. Because the same effect that causes the shape of hurricanes is eerily similar to how galaxy shapes form.
Space isn't necessarily empty per se :cacwot: Think of time and space like a fluid and it will all start making more sense.
I didn't learn this in regular physics though
Breh you're trying to explain baseline astrophysical dynamics to a dude who thinks Antarctica is a wall cause he watched Game of Thrones and went "damn that shyt looks cool as hell" at all the Jon Snow scenesthats because once again its still just marketing
take this gif for instance. It appears it is moving very fast right? Well, what if everything around it is also moving very fast...but in the same general direction?
That's exactly what is happening in our galaxy. Because the same effect that causes the shape of hurricanes is eerily similar to how galaxy shapes form.
Space isn't necessarily empty per se :cacwot: Think of time and space like a fluid and it will all start making more sense.
I didn't learn this in regular physics though
Breh you're trying to explain baseline astrophysical dynamics to a dude who thinks Antarctica is a wall cause he watched Game of Thrones and went "damn that shyt looks cool as hell" at all the Jon Snow scenes
i need my outlets whatever form they present themselvesBreh you're trying to explain baseline astrophysical dynamics to a dude who thinks Antarctica is a wall cause he watched Game of Thrones and went "damn that shyt looks cool as hell" at all the Jon Snow scenes
