How RNA Reads DNA (w/ SNaQ’s Ralph Crewe), How Envy Can Be Good, and Coriolis Effect
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The Coriolis Effect
The coriolis effect makes wind, water and pretty much every other free moving thing curve with the rotation of the earth on its axis. The two basic concepts at play here are the spherical geometry of the earth and newton's first law. This means that someone standing still in ecuador is actually moving about a thousand miles an hour faster than someone standing still on the north pole. If you stood in montana and threw a baseball hard enough to reach a city in ecuador, you'd miss your target because that city would be rotating along the earth's axis faster than montana was. Now imagine the difference in velocity in the ground under the northernmost edge of a hurricane and its southern
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