If I fly straight up in a helicopter and hover there, why doesn’t the earth continue to spin underneath me?

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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?

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Go to the western side of the room you’re in. Jump as high as you can.

The reason the wall didn’t come through and hit you while you were in the air is the same reason the helicopter keeps spinning with the Earth even though it is in the air.

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