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All the stars that you see in the sky spinning around you? They aren't moving. YOU are. The Earth is spinning from west to east, which fools your eyes into thinking that the stars (and the Sun, and Moon, and everything) are moving.

It's like riding the carousel; you think the buildings are whirling around your stationary horse, but it's the carousel turning, not everything else.

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