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gyroscope works by inertia.

Moving things like to keep moving.

spinning things, if they spin too fast, shatter and fly apart.

Here is an awesome video of the slo-mo guys spinning a CD up to super high speed until it shatters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7x1Hu29Wc

until the spinning thing hits the breaking point, it wants to keep spinning.

so . . .

If something is spinning very fast, if it twists, the forces at work cause a feed back that push back and try to keep it from twisting, and can cause other weird effects.

we can use this. It will keep pointing in the same direction.

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as for magnification

get some decent binoculars. use them around the house and yard so you know they are trustworthy.

maybe like this

https://www.amazon.com/Binoculars-Waterproof-Binocular-Traveling-Sightseeing/dp/B0756BXDTX/

not 5 dollar ones

then go to the beach and see some boats go over the horizon.

There is zero evidence that something intelligent (nature, and consciousness) can come from something non-intelligent (the big bang). None. Yet somehow millions have been indoctrinated into such a preposterous belief system. It's because they do not think. They hear that scientists say it's true, and blindly believe it on faith alone! Please understand, scientism is nothing but a religion. It is the antithesis of science.

Scientists are largely controlled by two things - the state, and education (which is largely controlled by the state). Any researchers/scientists/universities who don't stick to the program receive no funding. This is why you must obediently preach the bang theory, Darwinism, Newtonian mechanics, the heliocentric model, etc. Questioning any of these dogmas leads to immediate ridicule and ostracism. Scientists are just people. They want to fit in, and make money. Most are not being deceptive. They've just been duped into thinking that certain things are already settled. When something doesn't fit what is "already settled", they invent complete nonsense (e.g. "dark matter" and "dark energy") to make it fit, rather than to question what is supposedly already settled.

Here's a good book on this from a real scientist. Science Set Free by Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Set-Free-Paths-Discovery/dp/0770436722

Another good one is Shattering the Myths of Darwinism by Richard Milton: https://www.amazon.com/Shattering-Myths-Darwinism-Richard-Milton/dp/0892818840

I actually just used my cell phone camera, but with the help of an Orion XT6. I've been getting into astrophotography a bit recently, but I still need a few parts before I can start taking really nice pictures.

So one thing that's largely overlooked is the amount of refraction within camera lenses.

See, camera lenses are INCREDIBLY complex (source: I'm a photographer). I have a lens that is fixed, meaning it does not zoom at all. It's got 11 pieces of glass in it. My big 70-200 lens, which I love for headshots, has 21 pieces of glass, 7 of which are known as Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass. They are in there for the express purpose of letting more light through. Here's the Amazon link to the lens which explains it even better and even has a cutaway of the lens that shows all of the elements inside.

We actually use something called a T-Stop to measure how much light comes through a camera lens. The lower the T-Stop (the "T" is for Transmission of light), the more light makes it through to the sensor or film.

So while atmospheric refraction has a much larger effect for sure, the lens itself will distort and change things to some degree. This is true of all lenses made, (some light is always lost or reflected/refracted by the glass) just by varying amounts.

If you were genuinely interested then you could read “The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation” by Frank O’Brien. A detailed 460 page book that covers it very well.

Or you could read NASA’s published texts about it (this overview is a good start)

Or you could play with the Virtual AGC simulator on your PC.

Or you could study the source code on github

But I suspect you’d rather remain ignorant and make unfounded claims about how impossible it was. 🙄

Better grab a copy of this book while you're at it.

We have yet to get into the discussion Plato...I'm simply sharpening my teeth ;) https://www.amazon.com/Play-Doh-Skywalker-Darth-Vader-Can-Heads/dp/B00T0LSF02

Dude - seriously, just top and think for a minute. The stars are not rotating around the earth. The Earth is rotating on its axis. Which is why it appears as if the stars rotate around Polaris in the North and Octans in the South.

Here - get your self one of these. Put a blanket with a bunch of holes one one side, say the north. Now, spin the globe and imagine if you were an ant stuck to the surface of this sphere. What would you see if you looked up? You wouldn't be able to feel the rotation of the globe, so it would look like the sheet with the holes was rotating around the globe, around a central point.

Do the same thing at the southern end of the globe, and your ant self would see the holes in the sheet rotating around a central point, but in the opposite direction.

Is this starting to make sense?

Here ya go: https://www.amazon.com/Reynolds-Wrap-Aluminum-Foil-500/dp/B001R2NM5U

It's "whoever", not "whomever", in this instance.

Hold up, you think that dribble is satirical?

Here, this will help: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Comedy-Writing/dp/1592572316

Source here:


https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Beyond-Poles-Amadeo-Giannini/dp/078730347X

Does this look flat to you?

Like this?