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I know this is a joke but if anyone is wondering it's because they build those things to go towards the air, otherwise they would be going away from the air and it would be hard to breath. Earth is going away from the air too but luckily it has trees attached to itself that make more air and leave it behind, that's where wind comes from.
This guy knows his stuff
I'm appalled at the amount of people in this comments section who failed elementary grade school level of physics and also somehow failed to notice this is the shitpost community
If you want to just pick the fastest velocity we can measure and we're currently moving at thanks to dark energy the Milky Way galaxy is moving away from other distant galaxies faster than the speed of light.
Ik this is a joke but if anyone is wondering it's because units of linear motion (km/h, mph, etc.) do not accurately describe rotation. Rotational units like rpm are much better as linear units give a misleadingly large (though technically correct) number.
If anyone is wondering it's actually because of frame of reference. The first two images have speeds in relation to the rotation of earth, the last imagine uses a different frame of reference. If you put the last image in the same frame of reference as the first two images the number there would be 0km/h, because it would be moving in relation to itself.
It's actually because the thing that makes you make those faces is the acceleration, not the speed.
All three reference frames shown are accelerated, non inertial frames. But the first two have "fictitious" centrifugal accelerations somewhere around 0.5-2.5 g. The third frame has a detectable centrifugal acceleration, but it's like 0.003 g or something, and can be lumped in with gravity for many types of problems.
It's actually because of wind resistance, the air is moving the same speed as the ground when the earth turns so you don't feel it.
(don't @ me I'm just following what I recognized to be a humorous pattern of technically correct "well actually"s)
Man, it'd be so funny if the entire atmosphere just straight up locked in place. Heck, forget rotation, have it keep it's X/Y/Z in the universe static and just straight up disappear as our solar system moves on.
Xkcd kinda did a video on it except the earth is the one that stopped. It's pretty much exactly the same result though
It's exactly the same result! Because it's the same scenario from different perspectives.
Acceleration vs. Velocity
Not quite. When you're rotating, you are constantly accelerating in a tangent direction to the diameter. So the poster is right that we should be feeling a force shooting us away from the center of earth.
Except the force of gravity cancels out the centripetal force and then some.
So [force of gravity] - [centripetal force of Earth's rotation] = 9.8m/s^2
The difference is about 0.5%. A mass weighing 100kg at the north pole would only weigh 99.5kg at the equator. Most of the difference is the centerfugal force of the earth's rotation.
I've not checked the numbers, but apparently it's detectable in Olympic sports. More height records get broken at equatorial latitudes that higher ones.
A mass weighing 100kg at the north pole would only weigh 99.5kg at the equator
That assumes a perfectly spherical earth. The earth is not perfectly spherical.
Interesting, would the muscles of someone living far away from the equator be stronger in general than compared to someone with the same genes / lifestyle on the equator?
0.5% is so tiny that it disappears into the noise. It's a 1 in 200 difference. In theory, it would make a difference. In practice, you won't be able to measure it. Other confounding factors would bury it.
The fact that your units are units of acceleration proves the guys point, no?
It sounded like the guy meant the 1700km/h is a velocity, not an acceleration, which is why we don't feel the force of acceleration.
I was pointing out that spinning is acceleration, just in this case we can't feel it due to other forces.
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1675 + 10km/h
1675 + 100km/h
1675km/h
Turns out that 1675km/h is the magic number, anything above that is dangerous
What the speed that earth travel around the sun? And the speed that our solar system rotate in milk way, and milk way speed around the universe? We need the exactly number
I'm a leading scientist on speed, and this is the answer.
They let scientists do drugs?
Yeah, but they make them race so you can tell who's high
I remember learning that before the invention of the locomotive, people thought that 30mph was some kind of barrier that the human body could not survive.
Does that mean that cars bend the space around them instead of moving and the speed numbers on them are fake?
The earth isn't rotating and shaped like a pyramid
It's not spinning AND shaped like a pyramid?
...where does the turtle go?
If it's not rotating, why is it shaped like a pyramid?
Checkmate atheist
I was about to say gravity is stronger but it has already been said.
That's cause earth isn't actually rotating at all. The entire universe rotates around earth.
Maybe my math is wrong but: The Earth's radius is about 6,371 kilometers. With this large radius and a 24-hour rotation period, the centripetal acceleration at the equator is only about 0.034 m/s². This is tiny compared to Earth's gravitational acceleration of 9.8 m/s². So the centripetal effect is only about 0.3% of gravity's effect.
velocity V acceleration.
Space doesn't have air dummy
But earth is in space and I am ALMOST certain earth has air around it!