I’m not sure if this is a shower thought and I’m sure I sound like a complete tool, but thinking about it on a small scale makes a lot more sense. It’s like if you fill a bathtub to the brim and then climb in, the water will overflow. I have to imagine in SOME WAY having hundreds of thousands of ships in the ocean has to be affecting the water level. Is this already a thing or do the people reading this want what I’ve been smoking? 😂
In: Planetary Science
Also when you push down on the earth and kick off with your legs, while you get thrown up a few feet the earth gets thrown *down* an amount. It’s a ridiculously small amount but you and it are a system. The earth pulls you down and you pull the earth, proportional to your masses.
Latest Answers