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.
That’s cause earth isn’t actually rotating at all. The entire universe rotates around earth.
Those men are just very good friends.
1675 + 10km/h
1675 + 100km/h
1675km/h
Turns out that 1675km/h is the magic number, anything above that is dangerous
Does that mean that cars bend the space around them instead of moving and the speed numbers on them are fake?
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
Who do you think invents the drugs?
Can confirm. Heisenberg invented meth, saw a documentary about it.
Well maybe we should just turn the roller coasters around and go the other direction.
So 1675 - 100 = 1575 km/h?
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.
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 want a button that upon pressing immediately makes me stop moving relative to the universe moving around me. Just suddenly all the momentum to none of it.
Congratulations. You are either a pink smear or pink mist, depending on which direction you end up going.
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.
I thought everywhere was lemmyshitpost.
Any intelligent joke requires a disclaimer because of flat earthers, Qanoners and conservatives.
🎵Hello Poe’s law, my old friend…🎶
Poe’s Law strikes again!
OP are you stupid?
You must be a roundearther. This post is for smart people, so you can just find your way out 😤
Imma throw myself off the edge to meet the turtles 😭
Only one turtle. Four elephants though.
Good luck climbing the ice cliffs, dummy.
I don’t think this post is serious…
Love it!
If earth speed + hooman speed = no go
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
40,075,000m circumference / 86,400s = 463m/s?
Yes, that is the speed you’re going, then the acceleration you experience due to the change in direction as the earths surface revolves about an axis is a = v²/r. R being the radius of the earth. This gets us our small acceleration value.
You do experience this small acceleration as a very small reduction in weight. You actually weigh more at the poles than the equator. You don’t feel the velocity at all, as the whole planet is moving with you.
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
It’s not…
Maybe it was supposed to be, but it’s just a regular meme sub
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
Calvin’s Dad over here.
Who are you, who are you so wise in the ways of science?
A duck!
Therefore… by the process of elimination, we can tell the Earth is banana shaped.
Duh
i’m taking a meteorology class and can confirm that this is how wind works.
Im sure going against the force of gravity vs gravity pull to the earth has a lot to do with it too.
Unfortunately it does add up :(
Wait, so if I drive fast enough I get a nice picnic meal?!?!
Maybe, if there are nice picnic meals in Heaven.
Obviously 1685 Kmh is too much for your cheeks
