Love it!
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.
static
Relative to what?
The center of the universe, I suppose. How fast is the Milky Way moving away from the center? I imagine quite fast.
There is no center, and there’s no fixed grid. It’s still funny to think of the atmosphere stopping from the sun’s reference frame, though.
Well at the very least, we’re supposedly moving 2.1million km per hour along with the Milky Way, and 720,000 km per hour within the Milky Way (so it could be more or less if that’s with Milkys movement or not), plus our own movement around our sun, so … basically really fast.
My point is, having anything just freeze like a glitch would probably cause something terrible. Granted even relative to the sun is probably catastrophic so it’s kind of a moot point, haha.
There is no “center of the universe” as far as we’re aware I’m pretty confident. We (each individual) is the center of their known/knowable universe, but that’s distinct from the actual universe. There’s stuff beyond that that we can and will never observe.
I guess you could define the center of the universe as the average point of all matter, but since we can’t observe much of the universe we can’t know where that is.
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.
Wow am I on facebook?
Yes, now out with your deeply ingrained racist ideologies or I’m gonna sic gran on you.
Yes
Unfortunately it does add up :(
You see, that is another perfect example for why earth has to be flat, anything else just isn’t logical!
Fucking thank you! I was furiously skimming to see if anyone knew! It’s totes obvs that the ice walls block the wind, duh doi.
Uh, is this supposed to be a humorous jab at flat earthers, or do you actually think that this doesn’t add up and out yourself as a flat eather and in this case do you wish an explanation?
Maybe I should’ve put this in lemmyshitpost because I didn’t expect anyone to think it was serious.
I have very sensitive antennae when it comes to flat earth bullshit and also started to develop an allergy to non-science. So I beg your pardon that I asked…
Well you aren’t the only one, so maybe I should have laid the sarcasm on more clearly. I thought most people would read the title as tongue-in-cheek.
Honestly the internet has made me paranoid about who is and isn’t serious and who may or may not be a stupid twat
It’s The Picard Maneuver…! This is a safe space, Mon Ami!
I think there’s a lot of friendly and socially conscious people on here but I’m so bad at detecting tone though text, and I feel like I’ve been seeing more open vileness from bigoted and conspiratorial types recently even on a lot of the the better parts of Lemmy
Sorry captain, but I’ve heard a lot of Flat Earthers that use that exact phrase and act like its a gotcha that the Earth supposedly moves with 1675 km/h (it doesn’t, it rotates at a 15 degrees per hour drift Thanks bob) can’t be felt.
Wow, I’m surprised they even try to explain it mathematically at all. Like, if you’re going to believe something crazy, numbers clearly aren’t going to make or break your conviction.
Oh yeah, they use loony toons maths to explain certain aspect of reality while a globe earth would explain it all at the same time.
Any intelligent joke requires a disclaimer because of flat earthers, Qanoners and conservatives.
I thought everywhere was lemmyshitpost.
🎵Hello Poe’s law, my old friend…🎶
Poe’s Law strikes again!
If earth speed + hooman speed = no go
The earth isn’t rotating and shaped like a pyramid
If it’s not rotating, why is it shaped like a pyramid?
Checkmate atheistIt’s not spinning AND shaped like a pyramid?
…where does the turtle go?
Space doesn’t have air dummy
But earth is in space and I am ALMOST certain earth has air around it!
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)
Those men are just very good friends.
velocity V acceleration.
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Obviously 1685 Kmh is too much for your cheeks
That’s cause earth isn’t actually rotating at all. The entire universe rotates around earth.
