Have you seen the elementary school experiment where you spin an egg on a flat surface, then you stop the egg and let it go and the then the egg starts spinning again?
If the earth suddenly stopped spinning, the atmosphere would still be spinning at 1700km/h.
A cat 5 hurricane has wind speeds of 253km/h. So we’d be boned.
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
Yep, and unfortunately a lot of fascists on Reddit.
I do like how whenever a conservative Lemmy pops up, it has more trolls than users and the mods abandon it within a few weeks.
Aww does the wittle baby not want to die of mawaria?
Yep, the reason so many trumpers were shocked that Biden won.
Depends on the industry and if you have any co-ops or internships under your belt.
It’s tough starting out for most people, but it’s way better than the kids that graduated in 2020 or 2021. I still worry about them sometimes…
Hopefully it’s a decent protection plan and not a “pay for another phone in monthly payments then have to pay $150 deductible if you actually break your phone” kind of plan.
That’s like saying you can’t enjoy skirt steaks because you’ve had ribeye.
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.