My compass is useful because it doesn't even work in the northern hemisphere.
That's not useful. That is useless.
The scam is simply that you're paying $400 for features that really aren't there.
You hating reality, and wanting to pretend it is a scam doesn't make it so.
Magnetic dip is an easily verifiable phenomenon. You rejecting it won't magically make it go away.
Again, what you are saying is like saying motorbikes are a scam, because you can get a push bike for much cheaper.
They're just wrong.
Why?
Because you need them to be in order to pretend your fantasy is true?
Have you considered that you are the one who is wrong?
The only conspiracy is with NASA.
Something you are yet to justify, as they would need to waste so much money in order to fake it.
You'll see the steady progression of flight speeds, then all of a sudden they'll talk of rocket stuff, and you'll jump from 1200 mph to 4000 mph, then all the way to 17,500 mph.
Which is quite understandable.
The big limiting factor to speed in the atmosphere, is the atmosphere.
It creates a lot of drag, which slows down planes.
Take away the atmosphere and you can go much much faster.
A simple comparison is the Concorde vs jumbo jets.
Jumbo jets won because they were more efficient and were cheaper to run (and in part due to super sonic flight being disturbing and primarily only allowed over the ocean).
Faster aircraft have issues with heating, and efficiency.
Space craft do not as they are not continually burning fuel to fly through a dense atmosphere.
Right... So I trust wikipedia but I always ask myself if results seem plausible.
No you don't.
You ask yourself if it fits with your fantasy.
Such speed should be creating massive shockwaves
In what?
breaking the glasses of anyone nearby the takeoff (just as moving past the mach speed creates a sonic boom).
The pressure waves immediately next to the rocket are incredibly large at the launch site, which is why no one stands right next to it.
But the sonic boom created when it goes supersonic travels in the wrong direction. As the rocket is going primarily vertically, the sonic boom will travel outwards primarily horizontally.
By the time it reaches the ground it will be incredibly weak.
From the road, the car disappears fairly quickly. Same for a plane going at 360 mph or 6 miles a minute. But at 291.6667 miles a minute, you'd expect to blink and this thing would be out of sight.
So many issues wrong with this.
The car is driving along a road, and will disappear when it goes far enough past the horizon, with the curvature of Earth blocking the view.
A plane, flying much higher, can be seen for significantly longer because it is higher.
A rocket, doesn't instantly start out at that speed. It starts slowly and increases in speed, and initially is going vertically.
This all combines to allow it to be seen for quite long.
But as already shown with the ISS, you have a short window to view it once it is in orbit.
We have proven the rainbow's path is based on angle of sunlight, as both times it was around 9 or10, and that it's endpoint is also circular.
You didn't need to prove that.
Rainbows are due to multiple reflections inside water droplets. It has nothing to do with this discussion.
So like, you know how the guy (it doesn't MATTER what his name is) in Egypt saw those shadows and concluded the Earth must be round?
No.
They already knew Earth was round.
The shadows allowed them to determine how big Earth is.
Is it simply round (it is), or is it spherical (not proven).
Proven beyond any sane doubt.
The experiment relies upon curvature in the vertical direction.
This means if Earth was a disc, we would need to be on the edge of this disc.
Another simple example is this very thread, where sunlight is being cast upwards onto the bottom of a cloud, even though the sun still high in the sky elsewhere on Earth.
The sun's light comes from God and not itself.
And this now allows us to bring rainbows into it.
If that was the case, why do rainbows form at very particular angles relative to the sun, as if the light from the sun is coming from the sun, which is incredibly far away, and reflecting and refracting in the droplets of water to appear at highly specific angles to our eyes?
Why do shadows from the sun point away from the sun?
The evidence shows the light is coming from the sun.
every rainbow you see should be a solid disc. But if the sun is a backlit from another source, the sun is bright but only actually casts light around its edges.
So you just fundamentally fail to understand how a rainbow works.
Go take a solar filter, and look at the sun. You will see it isn't a ring light.
Or, wait until night, and then get a floodlight in a large open field, stand a decent distance away from it, but still in the light, facing away from the light, and spray water away from the light, and observe a rainbow from artificial light.