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Well, I did a little bit of research about this since you are so concerned about this. They don't use mechanical gyroscopes to measure the rotation of the earth. They use ring lasers. Do you know how large these ring lasers are? They were originally several kilometers or miles in circumference, back in the 1920's and 1930's. But with the advance of computing power and accuracy, now the most advanced and accurate ring laser is about 4 meters around. You can't go out and buy something like this. The largest commercially available ring lasers are about 10 centimeters around.

It turns out that small mechanical gyroscopes such as the ones in your videos are easily overwhelmed by non-inertial forces such as friction, viscosity, etc. I would not trust the results of any such small gyroscope when trying to determine the rotation of the earth.

This is probably why you won't see any videos of a toy gyro showing the rotation of the earth. If you want to see a real ring gyro in action, head on over to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Interesting, I learned something today.

1920's and 1930's

wow, that is amazing, since

The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow.source

You can't go out and buy something like this.

hahahahahahahaha... go figure

Ah yes, it seems I misread. The early rings were interferometers, not laser rings. They used a light source, but the light source was not a laser. That's probably why they had to be so big, the light source was less accurate than a laser beam.

Thanks for the correction.

link your sources.

all these sources force me to take it on faith.

they just say that it is so, and computer data can easily be corrupted (i am a computer scientist by trade).

but it is nice you finally admitted that gyroscopes don't move.

(of course it is completely proven that the guy in my first video with the gyroscope was a liar/fake... )

your videos are easily overwhelmed by non-inertial forces such as friction, viscosity, etc

suppositions to explaining lack of something.

Those sources don't force you to take anything on faith. Rather, they encourage more research. This may require doing something other than watching flat earth youtube videos...gasp!! Good science requires you to go out and prove data is corrupted and/or faked. Simply claiming something may have been corrupted and/or faked is not enough.

So, science states that small mechanical gyroscopes do not move with the earth's rotation. Therefore, a small mechanical gyroscope not moving is not proof of a flat earth. All those videos of small mechanical gyroscopes not moving are misleading, a common tactic in flatland.

Maybe you should investigate things in real life, rather than taking on faith everything they tell you in flat earth videos.

Naaah, that would would be actually doing something. Better to sit back and watch some more videos that reinforce your delusional world view. Remember when the central tenant of your theory is a conspiracy, its not scientific.

Cheers!