eli5: As earth rotates, why are we not able to travel to different places just by hovering above the ground? lol
In: Physics
Have you ever had a bug fly around your car? It’s not harder for the bug to fly towards the driver even if the car is going fast. That’s because the car is bringing the air inside the car with it. The fly only has to “swim” through that air at a relative rate.
The same goes for the planet’s air. The air we live in is being brought around at the same speed as the planet itself, and we are being kept relatively inert within that space, so it matters not how fast the planet is continuously going (as long as it stays continuous).
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