I guess I express my exasperation without proofreading or rereading
what I wrote and hands up,no excuses.
I meant that the inability to teach students that the Earth turns once
in 24 hours is not a low point in human endeavor - it is that there is
no point to human endeavor once a stance like that is taken.
Venus does not have a magnetic shield in a way the Earth does for much
the same reason the Earth has a 26 mile spherical deviation and Venus
hasn't or why the Earth has a very active surface crust whereas Venus
displays volcanic activity.Even the recent data based on CME's as they
strike Venus contributes to the understanding of the rotational
mechanism behind a planet's magnetic field therefore this area of
study can be added into the mix in using planetary comparisons to
extract a common mechanism-
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/627070main_HFA-orig_full.jpg
They are now talking of a geological study of Mars and sending another
vehicle up there yet the current explanation they have for the clues
left on the surface crust of the Earth is childish where none of the
parts fit together for proposing thermal 'convection cells' as a
mechanism for plate tectonics gets in the way of an explanation for
the spherical deviation of the planet and a magnetic field.
This was never about contending with the spectacular errors inherited
from the late 17th century even though it does demonstrate how
catastrophic the entrenched errors are to the study of terrestrial
effects which connect plate tectonics to the spherical shape of the
planet and the magnetic shield and from there into more complex issue
which graft in orbital elements including climate.Rather than try to
steal my work,and mangle it like they are now doing with rotation and
plate tectonics,they should discuss these matters openly as though the
old errors never mattered and just get on with moving astronomy and
the terrestrial sciences forward.