149) “Throughout
thousands of years the same constellations have remained fixed in their same
patterns without moving out of position whatsoever. If the Earth were a big
ball spinning around a bigger Sun spinning around a bigger galaxy shooting off
from the Biggest Bang as NASA claims, it is impossible that the constellations
would remain so fixed. Based on their model, we should, in fact, have an
entirely different night sky every single night and never repeat exactly the
same star pattern twice.”
Yet again, Mr Dubay neither discusses or understands the
numbers involved. Although the speeds at which the Earth, The Sun and the
Galaxy are moving are large, the distances between them are larger still. So
any observable change takes a very long time. One example was given when we
talked about the North Star, Polaris.
If you want some figures, the following will give you some
idea just how big the universe is, and why we are moving at a snails pace
comapered to thos dstances, howver fast it may seem on a earth-bound scale.
“our Sun and
the Earth are moving at about 43,000 miles per hour (70,000 km/hr) roughly in
the direction of the bright star Vega in the constellation of Lyra. This speed
is not unusual for the stars around us and is our "milling around"
speed in our suburban part of the Galaxy.”
A light-year equals 5.88 million million miles (9.46 million
million kilometres) and the nearest star beyond our sun is 4.37 light years from the Sun
(5.88e+12 miles) - so it would take
136744186.047 hours to reach the nearest star at our present rate.
That is 15,610 years.
In other words, since we developed primitive astronomy around
3000 years ago, we have travelled less than one fifth of that distance. On a
larger scale, our galaxy is about
100,000 light years across.
Relative to a star half-way across the galaxy, the
whole solar system has travelled 1/50,000 of that distance. Is it surprising
that we don’t see visible changes in our angles of view with such minute
changes?
Can you see how wildly ridiculous is the claim that “we should, in fact, have an
entirely different night sky every single night and never repeat exactly the
same star pattern twice”?
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