Time doesn't work under Flat Earth explanation of objects falling

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OK, Flat Earthers Society. You say that gravity doesn't exist. Then how are you gonna make other objects' gravitational pull happen?
Flatten and accelerate them? Well, let's talk about the solar system. So now, you would have to make every object flat and give their own acceleration according to their pull speed of objects.
Because the noticable pulling speed of various objects vary.
Now that's where the logic falls APART.
So, if the planets, stars, and natural satellites accelerate upwards at different speeds, there will be NO WAY they will be in alignment.
This means, days would be (unintuitively) infinitely long.
And because of that, You would be trapped in the same day forever.
Now, you might say that a day is just 24 hours but no. Each planet has its own length for a day AND year.
A day's full definition is the time that it takes for a planet to complete a full revolution around its axis.
And if the Earth isn't affected by the moon, it can't spin, therefore making days infinitely long.
And because the sun is out of reach, we can't experience seasons.
But none of these are true.

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Calen

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Re: Time doesn't work under Flat Earth explanation of objects falling
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2022, 12:18:59 PM »
And if the Earth isn't affected by the moon, it can't spin, therefore making days infinitely long.

Neither Mercury nor Venus have natural satellites, yet both rotate about their axes and have finite day lengths.
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Re: Time doesn't work under Flat Earth explanation of objects falling
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2022, 01:56:37 PM »
OK, Flat Earthers Society. You say that gravity doesn't exist. Then how are you gonna make other objects' gravitational pull happen?
Flatten and accelerate them? Well, let's talk about the solar system. So now, you would have to make every object flat and give their own acceleration according to their pull speed of objects.
What makes you think FEers would accept that the surface of the moon has ~1/6th the free fall acceleration of the surface of Earth?

If they are rejecting the HC model, don't you think they would also reject all that?
That means they can just have everything accelerating up at the same rate.

You should try focusing on the variance across Earth.

Now, you might say that a day is just 24 hours but no. Each planet has its own length for a day AND year.
Again, they don't accept the HC model, why would they accept that?

A day's full definition is the time that it takes for a planet to complete a full revolution around its axis.
No it isn't.
For the FE, they focus on the time it takes the sun to circle above.
For the HC model, there are several definitions.
The solar day is the length of time between successive solar noons.
The mean solar day (which is what most people mean when they say day) is 24 hours.
The sidereal day is the time it takes Earth to revolve once about its axis.

And if the Earth isn't affected by the moon, it can't spin, therefore making days infinitely long.
The FE doesn't have Earth spin.
But even if it did, pure garbage. We don't need the moon to have Earth spin.
In fact, the moon is slowing Earth down.

And because the sun is out of reach, we can't experience seasons.
"Out of reach" how?
We can see the sun, so why can't it give us seasons?

But none of these are true.
Well you at least go that right, none of your arguments make sense.