The Doomed Mercury

[lone wolf]

So why to planets spin?

...so we don't have to....

 

[Dexter Sinister]

So why to planets spin?

Google is your friend.
Curious About Astronomy: Why do planets rotate?

 

[petros]

Gotta love that Dinah Moe Hum.

 

[eanassir]

Because your talking about things that you simply have no way of KNOWING if they are TRUE or NOT...

It is "reasonable" to consider ONLY what is KNOWN, and not take part in idle specutlation about things you simply don't know..

It is reasoning to decern what is KNOWN from what is UNKNOWN..

This is not the correct thing. I tell you how:
If it is "no way of knowing it is true or not" as you said, then why don't you put it as a possibility instead of rejecting the whole subject?

And I tell you what is KNOWN now, is not essentially true, particularly when they are trying to find answers of things they admit are obscure and in fact UNKNOWN to them.

The difference between the religious and the none believers is this..

The religious are dogmatic and think they have all the answers..
The none believes are nihilists and think that answers are impossible, and that they can just choose to believe whatever the F*** they want..

It's like this..Galileo ,,,

Not every religion ... The true religion of God is not like this; in the Quran God - be glorifed - urged people to think and investigate and not to take things without thinking and contemplation especially the traditions of people which they adopt blindly.
And you take Galileo as an example; see this in the next paragraph

Galileo was an astronomer and mathematician, born in Pisa, Italy. He entered Pisa University as a medical student in 1581, and became professor of mathematics at Padua (1592--1610), where he improved the refracting telescope (1610), and was the first to use it for astronomy.

His bold advocacy of the Copernican theory brought severe ecclesiastical censure. He was forced to retract before the Inquisition, and was sentenced to indefinite imprisonment - though the sentence was commuted by the pope, at the request of the Duke of Tuscany. Under house arrest in Florence, he continued his research, though by 1637 he had become totally blind.

Among his other discoveries were the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight.

His work was finally removed from the Inquisiton's banned book list in 1954. The validity of his scientific work was formally recognized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1993.

Things haven't changed....

Galileo as an example

What is the danger of men like Galileo to the Church that they made the Inquisition!?
And what had Galileo and others to do with the Church, so that they burnt some and imprisoned others?

This had been done after the conquering of the Andalus (Spain now) by the European and their church; so they started to suspect and investigate about every man like Galileo lest he should be importing to them the teachings of the Islam.
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You're utterly hopeless eanassir.

Dexter, By God's grace, I have all the hope; and in fact it is you that are the hopeless.

The link you provided about Mercury in that post clearly and succinctly states otherwise. From the site: " It is now known that Mercury rotates three times in two of its years."

Do you not read the material at the links you post,/QUOTE]

I read it, but don't you yourself read it carefully:

"Until 1962 it was thought that Mercury's "day" was the same length as its "year" so as to keep that same face to the Sun much as the Moon does to the Earth. But this was shown to be false in 1965 by doppler radar observations. It is now known that Mercury rotates three times in two of its years."

Therefore, in the past they thought its day equals its year, but now they see "it spins three times in two of its years"

So they were wrong (as do they think now), but now they think it another way; why couldn't they be wrong now also?

And you defend everything they say: in the past they said: its day equals its year, and you believed that without hesitation, and now they say it in another way, and you also believe it; how can that be any scientific sense ?

So why to planets spin?

the reason for the rotation of the earth around itself