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Can you be motionless in space?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Earth Is Spinning, Right?

If you throw a ball straight while you're spinning on a merry go round, in your view, the ball doesn't move straight. And so because the earth is spinning, the same effect happens when you let drop a rock from the top of a tower. We can measure the earthi only because it is acceleration. Its not just constant velocity, that's a bit counter and tuie, because it feels like it's constant because it's a constant rate of spin. But constant spin requires acceleration, because it requires a force to move you towards the centere of the spin. I think all these things cind of ad up to the conclusion that we might feel like we motionless here

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