Some of these comments are super heavy. I don't even know how to reply to them. Maybe it's just because it's late.
Simple questions. If the Earth is accelerating at a rate of 9.8 m/s^2, then is its velocity increasing?
I accept that as an object moves faster, there is time dilation. If I was a stationary person watching a near light speed rocket go by with a man in it, the rate of time the man is experiencing is slower than my rate of time. In other words, he's aging slower than me. Now he can keep accelerating. It may be that he's just adding on 9's to 0.9999c every few minutes/hours/days so far as I measure the rate of time and not the man in the rocket - but he's accelerating regardless of the time dilation.
Back to the Earth. How many years has it been around? How long has it been accelerating at the rate of 9.8 m/s^2?
It can't be that it's simultaneously accelerating AND yet unable to reach the speed of light. If it's unable to reach 1.0c, then it must be that acceleration stops somewhere along the way.
I guess you can use Star Trek logic that scientists have actually considered. I guess you could say that space is constantly warping above us tighter and tighter in order to pull us. So the Earth isn't actually moving. The space around the earth is moving and we're caught in bubble of space. However, that would have to go for the rest of the visible universe since it's all "above" us.
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Oh and I ran into the ice dome idea that surrounds us. how does the whole thing not shatter when space rocks crash through?
I can't live in a mindset that millions of conspiracists have convinced Earth that it's spherical. My mind doesn't work upon cynicism and paranoia. The idea that every bit of evidence of science that supports spherical planets, moons and stars and whatever FET doesn't accept is damning. We've seen and read of revolutions. Empires collapsed, armies defeated. Previous science denounced in the wake of corrections such as the atom not being indivisible. It's impossible to believe that the sphere earth illuminati can damn the minds of 7 billion humans to date. Granted a lot of them are too young to understand higher science yet.
I do not think there is any God that would allow the minds of such a large number of his children to be blinded like that for ever. All science and truth comes from him, and he imparts it to us as we study and strive in our tests and observation. No way he'd keep them from making observations that would defeat a sphere earth conspiracy.
How could you believe in such an existence?