Meh... Not even entertaining anymore. Do you have something new to add to your usual lame trolling?

@zeendaniels5809 do you have any real glerf amateur video proof that proves the globe exists? 🤣🤣

@@tonyflatearther Yes, a lot. Do you have the real map of your flat earth?

@zeendaniels5809 of course, but you still haven't proven Earth is a globe yet! You believe Earth is a globe, there's no real proof of the real globes & other real planets existence period

@@tonyflatearther Excelent! Brilliant! Finally, someone has the map of the FE! This is history in the making, and you'll be remembered as the one who broke the chains of science and free us all! Now... Please share it.

But as the moon rotates, its center of gravity is always pointed towards the Earth. What other ones are you referring to? Because most other moons in the solar system (the bigger ones) are also locked to their planets.

No, the earth is pulling on the rock and the rock is pulling on earth and that's true even after the rock has fallen and it's touching the earth.

@@cxvxcbcxn Wasn't the system already in a state of equilibrium? Unlike in the case of a space rock coming in?

This is newtons third law

Best explanation of moon phases. Watched on Sunday October 27, 2024.

James, why is there so much contrived nonsense in your comment?

The ISS rotates "deliberately" to maintain its orientation relative to Earth, but most satellites don't need to be oriented any particular way. The ISS is not "tidally" locked to the Earth. It's rotation is deliberate (like I said) - meaning, there are thrusters on board that can alter the rate of rotation if it gets out of sync with its orbit around Earth. Something like the moon rotates with the same period of rotation because gravity makes it do so (over a LONG period of time). The force of gravity on the side of the moon closest to Earth is a bit stronger than the force on the far side of the moon. This caused the moon's rate of rotation to slow down to a point where it's rotational rate matches the orbital period. This DIFFERENCE in the force on the moon from the Earth between the near and far side we call "tidal" forces. It's the exact same phenomenon that causes tides on Earth (hence the name). The side of the moon pulls a little harder on the side of the Earth facing the moon, so the waters on Earth rise a tiny bit (relative to the size of the whole Earth). There is actually a high tide on both the side FACING the moon - and the side facing OPPOSITE the moon. The reason for this is the side facing the moon is pulled the hardest toward the moon. The Earth itself (the solid "earth") is pulled a little less, and the waters OPPOSITE the moon are pulled even less, so are sort of left behind a bit. To put it sort of numerically. The waters on the moon-side have a force of +1. The force on the solid Earth is 0. The force on the waters on the far side of the Earth are a -1. So from the perspective of Earth, the force on the waters has a magnitude of 1 - - - in opposite directions, so the waters on both the side facing the moon AND the side opposite the moon are pulled away relative to the Earth itself, thus giving us two high tides on opposite sides of Earth. These bulges of water don't really move.....the Earth just rotates, so the bulges move, and that's why we have high tide and low tide. Low tide is when the waters exactly between facing directly toward or directly away from the moon. Anyway - - - that's why we call the difference in the force a "tidal" force. The moon's rate of rotation slowed due to tidal forces. We have tides on Earth due to tidal forces. Something as small as the ISS doesn't have near enough tidal forces to cause it to gravitationally sync itself to Earth like the moon did - - - because it's too small. The force on the whole ISS is virtually the same. We MAKE it rotate so the same side always faces Earth.

@@willoughbykrenzteinburg With regards to the ISS keeping a constant orientation in reference to the earth's surface and the direction it's pointing, this is achieved by the use of 4 gyroscopes, right? I'm not sure why you've made mention of 'thrusters'?

@sailorman8668 Yes, that's right. I just meant there is a deliberate and human-controlled mechanism by which the ISS maintains its orientation relative to Earth and not due to some natural phenomenon. Thanks for the correction. There ARE rocket thrusters on the ISS, but they are used to periodically lift its orbit due to decay since it is technically not totally outside the atmosphere. So, over a period of months, its orbit will decay a tiny bit due to a very tiny amount of drag it experiences in very thin atmosphere. The change needed to boost it back into a stable orbit is very small. If you search "ISS reboost" on youtube, there are some videos that show this being done, and they only need to speed up by 1 or 2 m/s every 6 months or so at the most. Much longer between reboosts in some cases. I haven't looked into it deeply enough, so I'm not sure if there are permanent boosters on the ISS or if they send a craft to the ISS specifically to boost it. Either way, they'd need to send up missions to refuel either way, so i suspect the craft they send up is doing the reboost and not permanently attached to the ISS - again I'm not sure. But to your point, for orientation, you are right that gyroscopes are all that is needed because they aren't changing velocity, but attitude/orientation.

Correct - the side of the moon facing AWAY from Earth is seeing the sun. HOWEVER, if you were standing on the dark side of the moon during a new moon, you'd be in the dark, but you would see a fully lit Earth. Every now and then, the moon passes right in front of the sun during a new moon - and we get a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse ALWAYS happens during a new moon. By the same logic, a LUNAR eclipse ALWAYS happens during a full moon - - because the sun is always on the opposite side of Earth during a full moon, and sometimes, the Earth passes right in front of the sun during a full moon and gives us a brief lunar eclipse.