ELI5 Coriolis Effect. I don’t understand what it does
In: Physics
Okay, so one day we decide those Chinese sons of bitches are going down. So, we launch a nuke at China.
While it’s on it’s way there, we find out the earth is rotating underneath the missile. We aimed for China, but now ze missile is heading for France.
So France is like: “Shit guys, we are where China was when the US fired the ~~cigarettes~~ missiles…fire our shit!”
And the US is like, “Fuck, we’re dumb-asses. We should have aimed away from China to compensate for the earth’s rotation.”
Canada’s like: “What’s goin’ on, eh?”
and Australia’s still like: “WTF! The earth’s rotation shouldn’t have an effect on missile trajectory!”
Buuuuut! Assuming we don’t blow ourselves up first, us Californians will figure out the earth’s rotation deflects objects away from the spin of the earth. And we’ll give it a sweet name like, “the Coriolis effect” before we break off from the US to go hang out with Hawaii (Alaska can come too).
THE END!!
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