i don't understand how a round earth works

[Printer Bandit]

do people in australia walk "sideways" or "upside down" compared to people walking in north america?

 

[lxskllr]

Umm...

 

[Tsavo]

It's not the spoon that bends, but your mind.

 

[abj13]

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[SKORPI0]

do people in australia walk "sideways" or "upside down" compared to people walking in north america?

If course they do, it's down under. :whiste:

This visualization of a gravity model was created with data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and shows variations in Earth’s gravity field.
http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

[brianmanahan]

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when you curve it though, he gets a solid C

 

[IronWing]

People at the North Pole can levitate, cool!

 

[lxskllr]

People at the North Pole can levitate, cool!

There's less gravity there. It all pools around Antarctica.

 

[Jeff7]

Australia is where the plane takes off.

 

[techofalltrades]

Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. And the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world and if we let go... . That's who I am. Now forget me...

 

[Elixer]

when you curve it though, he gets a solid C

Hey, we got common core now, so they automatically get the highest possible mark, and a gold star!

 

[Perknose]

OP, you should be a third grade teacher, because by the fourth grade kids would be too sophisticated for your lame ass "jokes."

 

[Leros]

Australia is where the plane takes off.

If Australia was on a treadmill, would the plane still take off?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

People at the North Pole can levitate, cool!

Santa's flying reindeer magic extends to all people in the area.

 

[lupi]

wonder why it looks so strong in the indian ocean if I'm reading that correctly.

 

[techofalltrades]

wonder why it looks so strong in the indian ocean if I'm reading that correctly.

the dark blue is indicating weak gravity field...

the indian ocean is known to be an area of a low gravity field.

 

[SparkyJJO]

So I just need to travel to the rockies if I want to weigh more.

Interesting :hmm:

 

[Jeff7]

If Australia was on a treadmill, would the plane still take off?

I guess it sort of is already. 5.6cm/year.

 

[Paratus]

There's less gravity there. It all pools around Antarctica.

Actually you'd want to be on the equator. The spin of the Earth lessens the force of gravity the most there.

 

[sandorski]

yes

 

[DigDog]

do people in australia walk "sideways" or "upside down" compared to people walking in north america?

drugs.

 

[gorcorps]

do people in australia walk "sideways" or "upside down" compared to people walking in north america?

There's a reason boomerangs only work in Australia

 

[Oyeve]

Better question is being that the earth spins roughly 1000 MPH, if I flew a jet plane capable of sustaining that speed and at the proper latitude, and flying against the rotation, will I remain in the same place? Eh, yeah, think about that.

 

[PottedMeat]

do people in australia walk "sideways" or "upside down" compared to people walking in north america?

shit is all fucked up down in the 'southern hemisphere'

people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people

 

[BertolomeoDiaz]

Better question is being that the earth spins roughly 1000 MPH, if I flew a jet plane capable of sustaining that speed and at the proper latitude, and flying against the rotation, will I remain in the same place? Eh, yeah, think about that.

no, the plane flies its speed compared to the atmosphere, which is revolting around the axis with the earths crust/surface
from a different perspective, an astronaut in space, who wouldn´t see the surface as the reference, you may be right
same place in space: possible
same place above ground: impossible with aerodynamic flight

wonder why it looks so strong in the indian ocean if I'm reading that correctly.

it looks like it`s strongest where montain ranges are on continents, especially with volcanic activity, and mid oceanic rifts on sea floors
both cases have upward moving parts in the earts crust--> the crust is very thick there (heavy)
as continents are all obviously "thicker" than sea floors, oine could argue, that the continents should be heaviest all around, but sea floors are denser than continents, that´s why the continents "float" upon them