benwehrman on Nostr: If Mercury and Venus were orbiting the Sun at a tighter radius than Earth, we would ...

If Mercury and Venus were orbiting the Sun at a tighter radius than Earth, we would never see them on the "night side" of our spinning ball planet (facing away from the Sun)

Yet we do. All the time.

Reason number (idk i've lost count) that heliocentrism is a fictional fantasy.