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Dave!

The fastest recorded surface windspeed was 231 mph on the top of a mountain. Not 700 mph. Not 1000.

To be more precise, the direction is toward the earth's center of mass. Are you asserting that multiple forces cannot act upon objects simultaneously? If I have a hook set in my ceiling, and have a rope tied to that hook, and a cinderblock on the other end of the rope, and then I pull back...

Yes, I am. Dave, if gravity is enough to pull a basketball down to the earth, why do you think that it's not enough to pull air molecules back down to earth?

Dave, what happens when you throw a ball upwards? Does it immediately drop the moment it leaves your hands? Or does it travel upward in the direction you threw it for a bit and then fall back down? Why do you think air molecules are so much differently affected?

You read an article about an arbitrary boundary used by the world. Now read the article I posted. Roughly the same speed as the earth.

Wrong. Gravity is omnidirectional. The more massive an object, the more "pull" it has.

This is what happens when you don't read the article.

That's not how gravity works. Funnily enough, and no, this isn't evidence for a flat earth: the moon is (technically) inside of Earth's atmosphere. https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/the-moon-is-inside-earths-atmosphere-claims-study Which, by the way, supports the hydroplate model of...

Not sure where to put this, as my position spans both the political and religious, so I'll put it here for now. Only one type of tax is acceptable, a personal increase tax. All others are not only counterproductive and destructive, but even sinful. God said that a 10% tax was tyrannical. A...

:readthis: Perhaps I could have been slightly more clear: The ATMOSPHERE AS A WHOLE is moving with the earth. Do the propellers on a plane move the same speed as the plane? That depends, is your frame of reference the plane? or is it the earth? If the plane, no, the propellers are spinning...

Only if you're using the same frame of reference for both speeds. But we're not. We're using TWO DIFFERENT frames of reference for both speeds. Thus, no contradiction. ONCE AGAIN: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ABSOLUTE FRAME OF REFERENCE. ALL FRAMES OF REFERENCE are ARBITRARY.

Relative to what, Dave? 1000 mph relative to what? Saying it doesn't make it so.

Dave, we just went through this. The atmosphere is moving WITH the earth. It's motion relative to the earth (ignoring air currents, et al, for the moment for simplicity's sake) is 0 mph, just like your motion relative to the earth's surface while standing in one place is 0 mph.

Duh, Dave, because your speed relative to the earth is 0 mph. Once again: An external frame of reference is needed to determine motion. Relative to you standing on the earth, the earth is not moving. Relative to the earth, you are not moving. Relative to a car traveling down the highway you're...

About 1037.5 mph, actually. If it were in a geosynchronous orbit above the earth, sure. Dave, you try turning around 360 degrees in 24 hours. You'll be turning pretty slow too. The only difference is the size. What's the same is that whereas you're only about 2 feet wide (about a foot...

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This is incorrect, by the way. At the earth's spin axis, the angular momentum is 0 mph. At the equator, the angular momentum is ~1037.5 mph. Why would it be impossible for us to live on? Saying it doesn't make it so.

This is just plain dishonesty. The earth rotates once per day. That means, that a point at the equator moves 24,901 miles per day. That's about 1521.7 ft/s, or 463.8 m/s. That's not very fast at all considering the size of the earth.

No. We APPEAR to be motionless. No. ALL heavenly bodies, including the one you're on, are moving. The object one is using as a frame of reference is arbitrarily designated as motionless.