>>507185320Yes, you can verify both the Sun’s distance and Earth’s rotation with real experiments—people have been doing it for centuries.
1. Sun’s Distance (~93 million miles):
The distance to the Sun was measured using parallax during the transit of Venus in the 1700s. It’s the same principle your eyes use to judge depth—view an object from two different positions, measure the angle shift, and use trigonometry. You can do a basic version yourself with two observers at different latitudes measuring the Sun’s angle at the same time. Even Eratosthenes estimated Earth's size this way 2,000 years ago—no satellites required.
2. Earth’s Rotation (1,040 mph at equator):
The Foucault pendulum proves Earth’s rotation. It swings in the same direction while the Earth turns beneath it. You can observe this in museums and universities today.
Also, the Coriolis effect (which causes hurricanes to spin in opposite directions in each hemisphere) only happens if Earth is rotating. Long-range missiles, planes, and rockets all have to correct for Earth's spin—it’s built into how they navigate.
You don’t need NASA to confirm this stuff. People measured it long before space agencies existed.
Just because you can’t feel it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. You don’t feel the Earth moving for the same reason you don’t feel a plane cruising at 500 mph—you’re moving with it.
