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I know this is a joke but if anyone is wondering it’s because they build those things to go towards the air, otherwise they would be going away from the air and it would be hard to breath. Earth is going away from the air too but luckily it has trees attached to itself that make more air and leave it behind, that’s where wind comes from.

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Im sure going against the force of gravity vs gravity pull to the earth has a lot to do with it too.

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This guy knows his stuff

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Calvin’s Dad over here.

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Duh

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Who are you, who are you so wise in the ways of science?

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A duck!

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Therefore… by the process of elimination, we can tell the Earth is banana shaped.

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i’m taking a meteorology class and can confirm that this is how wind works.

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Wow am I on facebook?

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Yes

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Yes, now out with your deeply ingrained racist ideologies or I’m gonna sic gran on you.

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Ik this is a joke but if anyone is wondering it’s because units of linear motion (km/h, mph, etc.) do not accurately describe rotation. Rotational units like rpm are much better as linear units give a misleadingly large (though technically correct) number.

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If anyone is wondering it’s actually because of frame of reference. The first two images have speeds in relation to the rotation of earth, the last imagine uses a different frame of reference. If you put the last image in the same frame of reference as the first two images the number there would be 0km/h, because it would be moving in relation to itself.

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It’s actually because the thing that makes you make those faces is the acceleration, not the speed.

All three reference frames shown are accelerated, non inertial frames. But the first two have “fictitious” centrifugal accelerations somewhere around 0.5-2.5 g. The third frame has a detectable centrifugal acceleration, but it’s like 0.003 g or something, and can be lumped in with gravity for many types of problems.

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It’s actually because of wind resistance, the air is moving the same speed as the ground when the earth turns so you don’t feel it.

(don’t @ me I’m just following what I recognized to be a humorous pattern of technically correct "well actually"s)

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OP are you stupid?

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You must be a roundearther. This post is for smart people, so you can just find your way out 😤

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8 points

Imma throw myself off the edge to meet the turtles 😭

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Good luck climbing the ice cliffs, dummy.

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Only one turtle. Four elephants though.

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I don’t think this post is serious…

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Uh, is this supposed to be a humorous jab at flat earthers, or do you actually think that this doesn’t add up and out yourself as a flat eather and in this case do you wish an explanation?

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Maybe I should’ve put this in lemmyshitpost because I didn’t expect anyone to think it was serious.

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Any intelligent joke requires a disclaimer because of flat earthers, Qanoners and conservatives.

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I thought everywhere was lemmyshitpost.

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I have very sensitive antennae when it comes to flat earth bullshit and also started to develop an allergy to non-science. So I beg your pardon that I asked…

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Well you aren’t the only one, so maybe I should have laid the sarcasm on more clearly. I thought most people would read the title as tongue-in-cheek.

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🎵Hello Poe’s law, my old friend…🎶

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