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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

I once lived with a sort of science ~~skepticist~~denier (didn't believe in the moonlanding nor did he believe that the earth wasn't flat). He was of the belief that scientists are deceiving the public and one of the examples he gave was that they claim that the earth rotates at 1 670 km/h but if we look outside that's very clearly not the case and if jump we aren't flung at that speed to the side. I spent half an hour in a back and forth trying to explain the concept of relative velocity and inertia. It didn't go anywhere.

Edit: changed to denier based on the comment by logos.

[–] Nonononoki 29 points 8 months ago

Ask them to jump inside a train

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