Probably so, although there’s now way of proving that. But life expectancy has increased in the 20th century. I think I saw a mortality table that indicated that a 50-year-old’s life expectancy from 1900 to now has increased about seven years. Not a great deal, but pretty significant.
I think that you may be thinking of the false ‘law’ of centrifugal force, which is simply a combination of gravity and inertia, as opposed to its own ‘law’ That is the fake thing.
I have never heard of someone thinking that gravity is caused by rotation. Where did you hear that?
Did you click the link in what you quoted? Granted, that’s an isolated example.
Oh yeah? I got your authority RIGHT HERE, pal.
I’ve lived in Fairbanks Alaska, and Seattle Washington.
In Fairbanks when it’s 10 below, the air is absolutely dry. You can go out in a medium coat and while your exposed skin might get very cold and even frostbit, you’ll be fine.
In Seattle when it’s 32 F, it’s damp and drizzling turning to snow turning back to drizzle. Go out in a medium coat and you’ll soon be soaked to the skin.
You’re at more risk of hypothermia wandering around outside in the Puget Sound region at 32F than you’d be in Fairbanks at 10 below.
And after it’s 10 below and warms up to 32F in Fairbanks, you can go out in a freaking T shirt and it feels great.
In the summer Fairbanks warms up to 70s and 80s, and occasionally it even hits the 90s.
It’s more dramatic than that. Life expectancy for an American at age 50 was 21.26 years in 1900 and 30.5 today–a nine-year (or 43%) increase.
For a 20-year-old, life expectancy in 1900 was 42.8 versus 58.4 today. That doesn’t sound so bad–if you survived childhood, in 1900, you could expect to live to be 63.
But that’s an average–for every person who lived to 73, another died at 53. For every person who lived to 83, another died at 43.
Whereas today, for every person who lives to be 88, another dies at 68. That doesn’t sound as daunting.
Certainly, anyone who thinks that nobody lived to 60 when life expectancy was 40 is deluded. But just as often I hear the opposite misconception–that improvements in life expectancy are only a matter of eradicating childhood diseases. Tain’t true.
I still am somewhat surprised at how often I hear intelligent people talk about water draining/toilets flushing in the opposite direction in the northern and southern hemispheres (with the implication being this is due to the Coriolis effect, which is a real effect, but negligible on such a small scale and not noticeable except in absolutely perfect conditions which drains and toilets do not satisfy.) What irks me is that it’s so easy to test. Whatever happened to empiricism? Admittedly, I’ve only tested this once, but the first time I tried it, I discovered that about half the sinks drained counter-clockwise (as “expected”) and the other half clockwise. Now, I’m reasonably confident the equator does not bisect my house, but I haven’t checked any recent maps to make sure.
When I went to Australia in 2005, the toilets at our hotels flushed straight down, without swirling at all. I think I need to go back and see if this is still the case, though. November would be a good time for me. Would anybody be interested in advancing funding for this worthy cause? 
Evolution has nothing to do with the creation of life itself.
Evolution does not in any way imply atheism.
Evolution has to do with how genes change over time, not how genes formed in the first place. There is currently no commonly accepted working model of how that happened. See abiogenesis
Question related to the humidity+cold issue: I’ve heard it can get *too cold *to snow? If true, how cold is too cold?
You could probably make a few dollars betting people how Galileo died.
There are people who’ll swear he was burned at the stake or drawn & quartered. You can lighten their wallets a bit by betting them he died of old age.
You’re right, but the fact remains, intelligent people often seem to believe that , when the “average life expectancy” was 35, people were actually keeling over on their 35th birthdays.
That’s not only silly, it can lead to other silly ideas. For instance, I regularly see people arguing that “Monogamy is outdated and unrealistic; perhaps it made sense when we only lived to be 35, but now that we live to be 75 or 80, well, it’s just not natural to live with one other person that long.”
Silly argument, because even 2,000 years ago, a 20 year old couple who got married could expect to live together for 40 or 50 years.
Thousands of people think this. I’ve met some, and I encounter it online occasionally, in places like Yahoo Answers. Apart from the link I included originally, though, it’s hard to track that stuff down, as it’s always anecdotal.
Thought of another one today - people are still making jokes about Canadian dollars being so much lower than the American dollar, but the Canadian dollar has been at par or over the American dollar for about the last five years. Time to update your stereotypes, fellas! You can still call it Monopoly money, though - it’s still colourful and easy to tell one bill from the other (and why that’s a bad thing, I’ll never understand).
Cecil has covered this:
Why is the Latvian lat worth more than the U.S. dollar?
Poor Canada. The Latvia of North America as we say in America. I swear there are probably just as many wetbacks swimming south across the Great Lakes as there are coming North through the Rio Grande. The difference is, who can tell?
So, you take refuge in cites that miss the point and bad jokes when your country is shamed, eh? I understand. 
We’re the ones apologizing for dripping on the floor.