Why doesn’t it spin independently of me and I end up in another country or something? And if a spaceship watched earth from afar, at one point would it start spinning with earth and at what point can it observe the rotations of earth without being part of it?
In: Planetary Science
If you jump up in a train, you aren’t thrown back into the rear of the train. You keep moving with the train. And if you didn’t know it was a train, you would not know you were moving.
Same with earth, it’s the “train”, and you are moving with it. So is a helicopter, even while “jumping”, or flying.
That being said, the air DOES tend to not move quite as fast as the ground below it (it “slips”), and that generates winds and weather patterns. That’s why winds on a global scale have a very definite pattern. Go to windy.com and zoom out the globe and you’ll see this pattern.
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