Yeah, you shouldn't cherry-pick your evidence like that. Michelson-Gale detected both the ether and motion and you shouldn't pretend that Michelson-Morley occurred in isolation.
Unless you are proposing a little pocket of ether that stays still around the earth so that Michelson-Gale can detect motion but follows the earth around the sun so the Michelson-Morley cannot?
Is that your solution?
Do you think that there is an ether? Michelson-Gale-Pearson doesn't indicate this....
Unless you are proposing a little pocket of ether that stays still around the earth so that Michelson-Gale can detect motion but follows the earth around the sun so the Michelson-Morley cannot?
No, though this was proposed, too. AFAIR, Lorentz invented his transformations due to the thought of moving bodies being somewhat compressed by the ether...
I prefer to think of ether as a kind of phlogiston...