• Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world
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      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

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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 years ago

    1675 + 10km/h

    1675 + 100km/h

    1675km/h

    Turns out that 1675km/h is the magic number, anything above that is dangerous