The Earth's speed is 1,004 mph at the equator.How come the people who live there don't have to hang onto trees

Question

You would think that at that speed that they would get flung out into space

Answer 1

The centrifugal force you are thinking of is much weaker than the pull of Earth's gravity.

Answer 2

Gravity pulls everything towards the center of the earth. Gravities forces are stronger than the centrifugal forces of the earth.

Gravity also helps to give us our equilibrium, which is why we always feel like we are facing up, even though we could be upside down in relationship to everything else in space.

Gravity is also the force that keeps us from falling off the earth when it spins upside down :)

Hope this helped to answer your question.

Answer 3

The speed required to escape the Earth's gravity is 25,000 MPH. The Earth isn't turning fast enough to throw us off.

But if the moon were turning as fast as the Earth, then astronauts *might* be thrown off into space....

Answer 4

Gravity and constant speed.

Answer 5

the same way that u dont fly to the back in a plane... and in the train too... thought the speed it slower... u r movin with the planet so u dont get carried away

Answer 6

They are moving with the planet at the same speed.

Answer 7

The atmosphere spins with the earth.

Answer 8

Simple......gravity

Answer 9

ITS BECAUSE OF THE GRAVITY THE EARTH THAT WE LIVE IN IS SO HUGE AND THAT WE DONT EVEN NOTICE THAT ITS CIRCLING AROUND THE SUN

Answer 10

That would make a great disaster movie.