What Im trying to acertain here is - if you hovered stationary in the air would the landscape change below. Or being in the air are you also part of the earths rotation.
2006-11-17 08:59:06 · 19 answers · asked by Tricots 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Our atmosphere is considered the upper layer of our planet, meaning that it rotates with the planet. So due to friction and gravity you will stay in the smae position relative to the ground below you basically rotating with the Earth, unless it is windy.
2006-11-17 13:43:49 · answer #1 · answered by Texan Pete 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you would remain stationary, since the atmosphere tends to rotate with the planet. This would explain why weather systems move very slowly & can even stall. If you watch Weather Channel, you'll notice this.
Or try this: Tether a helium balloon to a stationary object on a calm day. As long as there's no wind, it'll float straight up.
So, if you could float 100 ft. in the air in calm weather, you'd stay pretty much in the same place. But with a strong wind, who knows where you might end up. LOL!
2006-11-17 10:10:08 · answer #2 · answered by WillyC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two possibilities.
You start off on the Earth and move up 100 feet. Since you were already going 1000 miles/hour, you'll keep rotating with the Earth.
You're lowered from space while the Earth rotates at 1000 mph beneath you. The 1000 mph wind will pick you up and get you turning with the Earth.
2006-11-17 09:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The air shares the Earth's rotation, so you would be stationary in the air. Balloons frequently hover just like that. So do helicopters and birds and clouds and bees and so on.
2006-11-17 09:12:28 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be like David Blaine and his latest cunning stunt! Hang suspended by a giant crane with two gyroscopes. Then you will remain stationary as the earth rotates below you. A sort of bastardised version of 'Fookall's Pendulum'
2006-11-17 09:08:56 · answer #5 · answered by troothskr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the earth rotates at 1040 miles per hour so if it were possible that the earth would rotate beneath you, you would be able to jump and travel .29 miles per second .throw a ball in the air and it would be a couple of miles away.All things are relative to the the gravity exerted by the earth so you rotate with it
2006-11-17 09:18:13 · answer #6 · answered by paul t 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of (and somebody maximum appropriate me if i'm incorrect) that in spite of the undeniable fact that the helicopter is soaring motionless, it remains traveling on the comparable speed of the earth. as an occasion, permit's think of vertically for a 2d: in case you have been in an elevator that became descending and you have been rather able to levitate your self in the elevator would you hit your head on the ceiling? No, because of the fact you're traveling on the comparable speed because of the fact the elevator. practice that comparable theory horizontally. The earth does not rotate below the helicopter on the grounds that's traveling on the comparable speed of the earth. i don't comprehend something approximately physics, yet i think of that incredibly plenty explains it (albeit very crudely).
2016-10-15 16:34:14 · answer #7 · answered by mickelson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would rotate with the atmosphere, which rotates with the earth. You'll stay on the same spot and see the same things all 24 hours.
2006-11-17 09:36:03 · answer #8 · answered by jandtoit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would rotate with the earth as the gravitational pull would sort of anchor you to that spot. You have to get out of earths gravity to let it turn without you. That would be a neat experience if it would work like that though. Good thoughts. Outside the box.
2006-11-17 09:10:28 · answer #9 · answered by Chuck C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The air rotates with the earth, so you would rotate with the air and the earth too.
2006-11-18 02:57:51 · answer #10 · answered by wilde_space 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋