i don't understand how the round earth works

[Printer Bandit]

do the few people in antarctica walk "upside down"?

 

[zerocool84]

I'm walking sideways

 

[BoomerD]

Yes...that's why no one can work there for any length of time. All the blood rushes to their head and they pass out.

 

[Nemesis 1]

do the few people in antarctica walk "upside down"?

Read newtons laws for answer .

 

[postmortemIA]

obligatory NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWksKNrJm0

 

[Jaskalas]

The Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun. Read that again. You are currently moving at LEAST 100,000 km/h.

Do you feel it? Do you care? No. Because relative to the gravity well of the planet, you're just along for the ride.

To your question, it is the center of gravity that matters, and that's pointing to the ground. So while people on the North and South poles are facing opposite of each other, that is not what they care about - they only care about facing the ground. "Up" is relative, away from the center of gravity. Down is towards it.

 

[Kadarin]

The Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun.

Technically, the Sun and the Earth rotate around a common center which, due to the relative differences in mass between each, lies within the Sun. Just sayin'...

 

[Northern Lawn]

I don't understand super conductors. It's the most science fiction thing that actually exists.

 

[ahenkel]

fucking magnets

 

[sandorski]

The tides come in and they go out. You can't explain that!

 

[T_Yamamoto]

The tides come in and they go out. You can't explain that!

Its dinner time for the fishes so they drink the sea water. After that they all take a nice piss. Tide in tide out.

 

[acheron]

Lies! The earth isn't round.

 

[highland145]

But you've got the flat earth down, right?

 

[JimmiG]

do the few people in antarctica walk "upside down"?

Upside down relative to what?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Yes of course they walk upside down. Why do you think penguins waddle so much? Because they are upside down and they had to evolve upside down.

 

[IronWing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQDXs75Ulo

 

[JulesMaximus]

The Earth is flat. Everyone knows this.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

somebody fails at science

 

[JTsyo]

fucking magnets

How do they work?

Some run a quick calculation on the centripetal force on something on the Earth's surface. Good thing for gravity or we would all be flung into space, other than those that were at the poles.

 

[JTsyo]

the earth is flat. Everyone knew this.

fixed

 

[pelov]

If you were to dig your way through the earth with a shovel, would you arrive on the other side upside down?

 

[olds]

I'm walking sideways

I am walking in rythmn.

 

[Schfifty Five]

The Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun. Read that again. You are currently moving at LEAST 100,000 km/h.

Do you feel it? Do you care? No. Because relative to the gravity well of the planet, you're just along for the ride.

To your question, it is the center of gravity that matters, and that's pointing to the ground. So while people on the North and South poles are facing opposite of each other, that is not what they care about - they only care about facing the ground. "Up" is relative, away from the center of gravity. Down is towards it.

Good reply, but unfortunately the OP knows this already. He's just being a dumbass and trolling around by asking stupid questions.

 

[DrPizza]

The Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun. Read that again. You are currently moving at LEAST 100,000 km/h.

Do you feel it? Do you care? No. Because relative to the gravity well of the planet, you're just along for the ride.

To your question, it is the center of gravity that matters, and that's pointing to the ground. So while people on the North and South poles are facing opposite of each other, that is not what they care about - they only care about facing the ground. "Up" is relative, away from the center of gravity. Down is towards it.

Not necessarily - if you're on the side of the Earth rotating away from the direction of Earth's path, then you would subtract the velocities. This makes it roughly a little more than a 1% difference at the equator. Regardless though, don't forget that the solar system is revolving around the center of the Milky Way, at 5 times the speed the Earth is revolving around the sun. And, the Milky Way is revolving around the center of mass of our local group, at nearly 6 times the speed at which the Earth is moving.

 

[Paul98]

The Earth moves at about 100,000 km/h around the Sun. Read that again. You are currently moving at LEAST 100,000 km/h.

Do you feel it? Do you care? No. Because relative to the gravity well of the planet, you're just along for the ride.

To your question, it is the center of gravity that matters, and that's pointing to the ground. So while people on the North and South poles are facing opposite of each other, that is not what they care about - they only care about facing the ground. "Up" is relative, away from the center of gravity. Down is towards it.

Velocity isn't absolute, so no you aren't moving "at LEAST 100,000 km/h". You can say the Earth is moving about 100,000 km/h with respect to the sun. The earth and you are moving at any speed it just depends on the frame of reference. There is no single absolute velocity.