I get the feeling some people on this site are not interested in facts preferring instead to just invent their own version of 'reality' regardless.
My thoughts exactly. But if that is true then how are we ever going to achieve anything if some people will only ever accept their own preferred, beliefs based only version of 'reality' regardless of what evidence to the contrary is presented?
We have had space based images of the Earth for several decades now. Not just a few but umpteen of them from both private and public sector based sources. These provide definitive proof of the shape of the Earth. How many photos of a flat Earth have you ever seen? Flat earth believers do not accept these images because they counter their beliefs so they simply dismiss them as fakes or hoaxes. Why would the vast majority of people on the planet care two hoots about what a very small minority think for their own obscure reasons?
Your description of why meteor showers happen is correct and well established. We see activity rates vary from year to year because how many meteors we see depends entirely on the density of the meteoroid stream that the Earth encounters. The ZHR* also typically increases after midnight because the Earths rotation turns us towards the oncoming meteors. Before midnight meteors are playing 'catch up' so we only see the fastest moving meteors.
I used to be a member of the British Meteor Society and they published their 'radiant catalogue'. There were more meteor showers listed in that than I have ever seen since and lots of data about each one. You couldn't make that sort of data up!
Zenithal Hourly Rate = the predicted activity rate of a meteor shower based on the radiant point being on the observers zenith and no Moon present.
No, it's not. It's indirect and involves several models and assumptions about RET. Prove that the speed is measured directly.
How do you 'prove' anything to anyone who doesn't want to believe something in the first place?