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Flat earth thought (lemmynsfw.com)

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I heard something new that realy makes you wander. If the earth is rotating as they say than how airplanes can go in straight line? If earth is moving under them they should land way off the desired destinacion.. 😮 They are not connected to the earth so rotacion shouldnt apply to them, it applyes only to cars and runing animals but not on airplains and bierds.. Also when you jump from baloon that is wery high up, you shouldnt fall straight down, if the earth is rotating it should move under you and you could newer fall on the same spot that you jumped over.. 🫢

I cant beleave this newer came to my mind for entire life.. 😵

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Ok so since inertia happends when object change its state, it is when we change our speed or when we change our trajectory.

For example when i sit in car and it quckly accelerates i feel inertia, or when it run 100km/h for 5min i dont feel anything but if it accelerates quickly to 150km/h i feel inertia again. Or if he starts turning while keeping its speed to 100km/h i will feel inertia if that turn is curved enough, if its to soft i may not feel it.

On earth while just standing we dont change our speed, its constant so there is no inertia because of that. But we change our trajectory constantly because we dont go straight, we are constantly turning since its rotating. So inertia should apply to us right? But gravity is stronger and thats why we dont fly of the ground?