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http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=45427

>Now, scientists claim that Earth is spherical and rotating at a speed of between 700-1000 miles per hour, depending on your latitude. This is a very high rate of speed. You can disprove this nonsense by simply jumping up as high as you can. Really, it's that simple. What happens when you jump? You come straight down to where you were. But, if the Earth were indeed spinning at such a fast speed, wouldn't you land hundreds of feet away?


Holy shit

>> No.4881625

OP I hope you realize that entire site is satire.

>> No.4881631

>>4881625
>inb4 [citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church

>> No.4881634

>>4881631
actually the appropriate citation is
>common sense.

>> No.4881637

>>4881625
Is it actually? Because if not, these people scare the shit out of me.

>> No.4881638

>>4881625
still... it gave me mind-cancer, I feel bad for the one trying to explain to them the theory of gravity, yet ended up being banned.

>> No.4881639

>>4881637
yes

>> No.4881640

>>4881637
i see the wiki now, what a relief.

>> No.4881643

>>4881638

That person is obviously more stupid than the creators of the website.

>> No.4881645

>>4881638
They ban the ones who dont role play. And it's inertia, not gravity.

>> No.4881648 [DELETED] 

>>4881634
I'm falling for a ridiculously obvious troll, but in case people are genuinely puzzled by what OP said: you have the same speed of the Earth. You don't feel it because you're immobile in Earth's referential. Every speed ever is relative, this is babby's first classical mechanics.

>> No.4881651

I'm falling for a ridiculously obvious troll, but in case people are genuinely puzzled by what OP said: you have the same velocity as the Earth's. You don't feel like you're moving because you're immobile in Earth's referential. Every speed ever is relative, this is babby's first classical mechanics.

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>>4881612
what's basic physics
>landoverbaptist

nevermind, known troll site.

>> No.4881660

>>4881651
I don't think anyone here is puzzled by the statement.

>> No.4881661

>>4881651

You silly cunt.

>> No.4881665

>>4881660
Which is why you took the precaution to bump that thread.

>> No.4881666 [DELETED] 

>>4881660
Actually I'm not bumping the thread.

>> No.4881668

>>4881665
Actually I am not bumping the thread.

>> No.4881679

>replying to austrian_girl
>Hmmm... it must be different in Australia. Here the wind blows from time to time - not all the time

ohboyherewegoagain

>> No.4881686

0/10

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>> No.4881712

>>4881688
What

>> No.4881729

Serious, non-troll question:

How is the earth's angular velocity even measured?

>> No.4881754

>>4881729
Uhhh, by the length of a day.

>> No.4881758

>>4881729
A couple different ways. Foucault pendulum is the easiest, most direct way. You could also do it via sky brightness changes at twilight.

>> No.4881767

>>4881754
What's used as the inertial frame then?

A satellite?

>> No.4881779

>>4881767
who cares. The angular velocity of the earth about its axis is just one revolution per 24 hours.

>> No.4881785

>>4881767
The sun. The sun's orbit around the galactic center is sufficiently large that no one gives a fuck on human time scales, and it's close enough to inertial.

>> No.4881809

>>4881638
>implying gravity has anything to do with it

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>>4881612
>posts fucking retarded religious bullshit to get people on a science central board to agree with you
>fuck you and your stupid thread you stupid fuck that needs to justify your knowledge with the degrading of others'

>> No.4881858

>>4881612
You know landoverbaptist is a troll site right? It makes fun of creationists and other anti-science people with arguments they'd be dumb enough to make, but not creative enough to think of.

>> No.4881878

> Rev. Jim Osborne
> True Christian™ Televangelist
> Director of Fundraising and Tithing
> On the Look Out for Wife #6!

This wouldn't be a troll would it?

>> No.4881888

is this a troll forum like TheBestGamers forums?