2006-12-02 07:21:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
gravity is pulling you back down as soon as you hit the air, the forces spinning the earth dont have enough time to react to what happening therefore you come back down.
2006-12-02 07:29:50 · answer #1 · answered by Brittaney x3's Holden 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because you're spinning with the Earth. We're not separate entities that have to walk to keep up with the Earth - we stick with it! Therefore, when you jump up, you're still spinning, and when gravity overcomes your effort to jump, you fall back to the Earth in the same place you jumped from.
2006-12-02 10:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by SM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Earth is already in motion. You are not seperate to this, you are flying through space with our planet, jumping around won't change this much. This is 7 year old thinking. Too much cartoons, read a book.
2006-12-02 07:34:52 · answer #3 · answered by Hairybolux 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because you are travelling at the same speed as the earth e.g. when you are on a train you are travelling at the same speed as the train so when you jump up you stay moving so you don't move inside the train but outside you might have moved 40 feet.
2006-12-03 03:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Dave 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason is that we are travelling the same speed as the earth. Like when you stop suddenly in a car without restraint you keep moving forward.
2006-12-02 10:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by Pierre T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we are held in orbit by gravity in constancy with the velocity of the earths spin.
2006-12-02 07:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by steven tt 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are already traveling at the same speed . Get in your car and do about 50 on the highway . Now climb on the roof and jump up . Report back with your results .
2006-12-02 07:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by Bobbo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because you are also spinning at the same rate and direction as the earth
2006-12-02 07:45:41 · answer #8 · answered by alec A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gravity.
2006-12-02 07:47:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because both you and the surface of the earth are travelling at the same speed - the relative velocity is zero.
Think of yourself travelling in a high speed train. Same principle.
2006-12-02 07:26:33 · answer #10 · answered by Nothing to say? 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋