Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 3 2020 02:11pm)
The second picture says more about flat earthers inability to think critically than anything heliocentric, because there are extensive calculations that have been done for hundreds of years to predict where planets and stars will appear in the nights sky and they were a garbled mess until we started using the heliocentric model.
What's hilarious about that second picture is that it's correct: Earth's movement can be easily observed when looking at the stars. Of course, the effect is way more subtle than ChivasRegal is implying.
There are stars which are so close to Earth, that you can witness them "wobbling" back and forth against the background of other stars. If you take a picture of these two stars every day for a while year, you will notice them moving to the side, and then moving back to their original location. This is because the movement of our own vantage point (i.e. Earth's orbit) is significant enough to actually cause a noticeable difference in perspective.
61 Cygni is a pair of stars which is perhaps most famous for this phenomenon, since they are easily visible with a small telescope, and are only 11 light-years away from Earth.
But let's not assume that ChivasRegal will acknowledge any of this.
This post was edited by Leevee on Jun 3 2020 06:33am