when viewed from space, does the earth spin from left to right...

[booboisie]

Lol igowerf. I just started reading that book yesterday and I'm almost done with it. Coincidence? Probably...

 

[WildHorse]

Los Angeles spins toward New York

Life Indomitable !!!

 

[Tom]

Depends if you're standing on your head or not.

 

[Sc4freak]

Originally posted by: Baked
I was asking the astronomy professor what's on the other side of a black hole (not the other side of the tube, more like other side of a mirror), and he didn't give me a straight answer. I don't think he gave me an answer at all.

And how do we know North Pole is really North Pole and not South Pole?

Huh? I always thought that the "North" and "South" poles were arbitrarily chosen?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The earth spins in the same direction as a flushed toilet in the southern hemisphere

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
The earth spins in the same direction as a flushed toilet in the southern hemisphere

Actually it has been proven that the Coriolis effect is not chiefly responsible for the direction the water "spins" in the bowl. The bowl shape and angle the water is introduced is what causes this. The subject area is too small and the force comparatively weak.

Now cyclonic weather systems, OTOH, are affected by this.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Obviously more than a few people here failed math.

- M4H

 

[NuAlphaMan]

Who cares? How many folks get to see the Earth from space? You should be concerned if it stops spinning. LOL

 

[torpid]

When viewed from a certain angle isn't it spinning both from left to right and right to left at the same time? I put a divet in my quarter and turn it. No matter what, it goes from the right side to the left side back to the right side.

 

[Sc4freak]

Yeah, if you happen to have a 180 degree field of view around the damn planet from pole to pole.

 

[vailr]

The other question not asked is: when viewed from the North Pole Star, does the Earth orbit around the Sun clockwise, or counter-clockwise?
Same question for the Moon's orbit around the Earth: clockwise, or counter-clockwise?
Are all planetary orbits and rotational spins of planets and moons (in the Solar System) the same?
(I believe that the planet Venus has a rotational spin that is opposite of the rest of the planets.)

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
it should be left to right, right?

my logic is, because East Coast gets the sun before the west, so the earth spins from left to right.

Im guessing that would be counterclockwise looking down from the north pole... and clockwise looking up from he south pole.
And from left to right at the equator.

 

[Paddington]

Yes, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, nubcakes. Thanks for playing.