well, as I mentioned earlier, it wasn't always our pole star - it isn't traveling at the same speed as us around the galaxy.

and at some point it will no longer be our pole star.

Thank you, Brian.

Polaris might be visible through that hole in a rock now, but it won't always be.

Searching for pictures can be too much sometimes. Heh.

The same reason its not possible for astro navigation charts to be 100% still accurate thousands of years later allowing mariners to sail by the same stars their ancestors did and arrive at the right location. If the earth is orbiting the sun at 45,000 mph, and moving with the solar system at 515,000 mph, there is no way thousands of years later we could still navigate by the position of the stars they would HAVE to have moved!

You have to be logical Drew.

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Those distances and speeds don't really mean much relative to most of these stars' distances. And stars actually DO change positions - it's why stellar parallax is a thing.

I hear that a lot.. How distances and speeds don’t really mean much. I simply disagree.

The earth is a square

The earth is an egg

Hello

The earth is proven not real by me

We all live in our imagination

Fair enough. If you look at Polaris, though, it's 323 light years away from earth. One light year is about 5.8 trillion miles.

The earth is a dodecahedron

Think about it. If they captured an image of a black hole 53 million light years away, (5.8 trillion miles x 53 million.) How could they possibly capture that when we are moving at ludicrous speed? We can’t even get clear images of the ISS at a fraction of that speed, or distance.

EARTH IS FAKE

Earth is a hologram

PROVEN

Honestly I think it's a simulation
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Suddenly, those speeds don't mean much in relation to distance.

Earth is in the shape of cheese

Since the old days astronomers have been faithfully logging the movements on the firmament of hundreds of thousands of stars.
And now comes the great kicker: it transpires that about half of the logged stars show ‘parallax’ (or at any rate, movement). But about half of each move in opposite directions!
This is called positive and negative stellar parallax.
However: if we are indeed witnessing stellar parallax as a result of the Earth’s orbit around the sun, all parallax should be in the same direction!
As a result we must conclude that the movement of the stars that we have been measuring ever since Bessel does NOT validate Copernican Heliocentrism, but IS consistent with Brahe’s System.
Furthermore, we cannot call these stars’ movements parallax at all. Because if these movements were caused by moves in the firmament, a result of the stars spinning around the Earth, or vice versa, all movement should still be in the same direction.
We must conclude that the movement that we are seeing is caused by other factors, and cannot be called stellar parallax at all.
And this also means that all our calculations of the distance of the stars are rubbish too.
And this brings us full circle, because it was Copernicus himself who began the insane blowing up of the Universe, based on nothing but speculation.

My response to stellar parallax written by someone far smarter than I

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That's not true, Brian - if these stars are in our galaxy and rotate faster than us, that would absolutely explain the other direction.

@Drewski4343 in less than 1 minute you managed to read and comprehend all that and spit out its not true?

No, I followed up with why that was.

I am just telling you what main stream scientists have said. If you choose not to believe it, that is on you.

I'm saying that, in our beautiful night sky, we have stars that travel with us in our galaxy and stars that are other galaxies much further away from us. Some of the stars in our galaxy would in fact be rotating faster than our solar system which would account for the positive and negative parallax.

As far as Derek's earlier comment about the black hole - objects that far away are basically on a static background. It's the same effect to us as watching the moon at night while going for a walk in the park. The moon appears to move with you as you walk. Obviously it's not following you, but from its great distance, our relative movement provides virtually no parallax.

hey guys

Hey man

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My children are not vaccinated, either.

Personally I dont like the Vaxxs but all my kids have been vaccinated regardless though I do worry about what else may be in them

Was that before you learned of the potential harms?

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