# Epiphanies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epiphanies/41677>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epiphanies/41677 "2000-11-17T22:55:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epiphanies/41677/21 "2000-11-25T08:42:20Z")

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**scratch1300** ’s post about the stars reminded me of an epiphany I had in my freshman astronomy class.

We were required to go up to the roof after dark and chart the course of the stars for about four hours. As I drew little arrows showing their movement, all of a sudden I realized that they weren’t moving at all – **I** was moving because the earth was turning. It almost made me dizzy that I was standing on this big, rotating ball. Suddenly I really “got” that the earth turns on its axis.

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