If you were traveling in any type of vehicle, could you in any way, keep up with the sun?
Could you follow the sun fast enough to where it would always be daylight?
I was wondering about this and it's really driving me crazy!
Please answer!
2007-11-02 11:30:12 · 13 answers · asked by vote4pedro0529 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I don`t see why it wouldn`t be possible in a plane.
2007-11-02 11:39:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you could. Earth spins at a maximum of 1000 miles/hour at the equator; and, slower as you move towards the poles. You could, conceivably, just get in an airplane & fly due west, keeping up with the sun.
Or, go to the lagrange point a million miles out from Earth toward the sun - there, you're balanced between the suns' and Earth's gravity - thereby always remaining in sunlight.
2007-11-02 11:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you are.
To follow the sun at the North Pole or the South Pole is easy. All you need is an office chair which can turn.
:-)
At the equator one would need a supersonic plane, but it's not too bad. The 40000km/24h translate into 1667km/h or approx. 1000 miles per hour. That's about Mach 1.4.
If you got on the Concord in the past, you would arrive sooner in New York than you left in Paris or London (in local time, of course, not physical time).
2007-11-02 11:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean traveling on Earth or in its atmosphere, and yes, in a plane you can keep up with the sun, if you're going fast enough. At the equator, that's only about a thousand miles per hour. At higher latitudes, it's even slower.
2007-11-02 15:07:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The concorde supersonic transport jet could do this and often did. On a flight from Loindon to New York, The time when you arrived in New York would be earlier than the time that you left in London because the jet would fly faster against the Earth's rotation than the speed of it's rotation at that lattitude.
2007-11-02 11:52:41 · answer #5 · answered by Arkalius 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Concorde was used to follow a total solar eclipse,to extend the time of totality.
By careful matching of velocity it's easy to "follow" the sun as it moves, and so constant daylight is definitely possible
2007-11-02 11:42:15 · answer #6 · answered by Azalian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can, pilot a plane at a speed that matches the speed of the Earth's rotation, fly it in an easterly direction and you will always be in daylight if you you started the trip in daylight.
2007-11-02 16:37:09 · answer #7 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure; you just have to figure out how fast to fly to stay even with the terminator. That would be traveling 15 deg/hr. Approximate that every 15 degrees is 1000mi. @42N then 1K mph or mach 1.3 would do it. Of course this changes with the latitude.
TRUST ME; I'LL BE BACK.
2007-11-02 14:49:22 · answer #8 · answered by TicToc.... 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well all you have to do is realize that the SUN isn't going anywhere...The Earth is spinning around.
Soo-o...if you wanted it to be daylight all the time, all you have to do is launch yourself up into space and get free of the Earth's gravitational pull, then move out of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and there you are...The Sun would shine on you all day and all night.
2007-11-02 11:40:14 · answer #9 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's absolutely 100% possible. Just need a really quick vehicle.
2007-11-02 11:42:54 · answer #10 · answered by Milo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the earth travels around the sun at 66,000 mph but it would vary according to what time of year it was due to us traveling round the sun in an elipticle shape. so if you could go fast enough you could. but if you were to go that fast it would apper that time would be traveling backwards wouldent it??
2007-11-02 11:43:22 · answer #11 · answered by swnd_az_a_pwnd 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋