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Has a heavier atmosphere and the relocation of oil around the Earth had a measurable effect on the rotation of the Earth?
I am wondering if the man-made carbon emissions put in the Earth's atmosphere over the past 100+ years, and also the relocation of oil around the Earth over this same time period, has had any ...
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A new way of travel or not? [duplicate]
What if you somehow go up straight into sky (assuming that you go up without any displacement in any other direction), would you land on the same spot from where you went up? If not, where could you ...
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What's responsible for the earth to rotate and for the objects on it to rotate with it? [duplicate]
Three questions arose to me:
The first is what is responsible for the earth spinning? Is this just newton's first law in action - having been formed out of the material in the cluster of clouds after ...
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Energy required to tilt Earth’s axis by 90 degrees? [closed]
How much energy would be required to tilt Earth’s rotation axis in such a way that what is now poles would be where to equators are relative to Sun and vice versa?
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Can we stop the Earth from spinning?
When we walk on the ground, we push the ground backward and hence the ground pushes us forward and we change our position. The effect of our force on the Earth is very minute (literally negligible) ...
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Why don't hovercrafts move West relative to the Earth [duplicate]
Suppose that there is a hovercraft floating a few centimetres above the Earth's surface. As it is disconnected from the Earth, which is spinning from West to East, shouldn't it appear to move East to ...
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Could traffic acceleration/deceleration change the rotation of Earth? [duplicate]
For example at a stop light where multiple cars and trucks are accelerating at the same time all the torque from all the vehicles.
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Placement of the spaceports on our Earth
Why are spaceports located at certain points (site/place) on our Earth?
Is there a physical reason I don't really know about?
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Why ball fall at same location from where we throw it? [duplicate]
I have a silly question. As we all know earth is rotates at a speed of 460 m per sec. So if I throw a ball in the air for 10 sec than the ball must fall 4600 m away from me but these does not happen ...
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Flat Earth experiment, but with gyroscope
A man conducted "an experiment" (quotes really, really necessary) to prove that earth is flat. Here's a link. He used a spirit level, set it up before takeoff and expected the level to be tilted after ...
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Would the length of the day change if everybody in Britain switched to driving on the right?
I found this question on the internet and I feel curious about it. I assume that even if the direction were to be switched, it would not matter because the people driving from east to west and vice-...
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What happens if the Earth's rotation slows down? [closed]
Instantaneous stop
I've seen a few posts about what happens if the Earth stopped moving completely. Most seem to assume a scenario in which the Earth stops rapidly. In such scenarios, I have read ...
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How do I experience Earth's movement?
We are told that Earth is spinning on its axis at 1037 mph— something that we don't usually feel because of the environment that moves with us as well. Is there any experiment with which we can know ...
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Since Earth spins, would an aircraft travelling opposite to direction of Earth spin take less time? [duplicate]
Suppose we want to reach the point on earth which in relative terms is exactly on the opposite end of the sphere we call earth (I know it is not an exact sphere).
We either dig vertically downwards, ...
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How can the Earth keep spinning with a liquid core?
In regards to the 'conservation of angular momentum' being the explanation of why celestial objects spin...
If you fill a ball or any other container with a liquid and try to spin it, you will not ...
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