2007-11-17 13:32:48 · 9 answers · asked by ike 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If you hover you will still be in the gravitational field so the pull will keep you moving with the earth. The earth rotates roughly 1000 miles per hour, yet if a ball is thrown vertically upward it still lands in the same spot. If there wasn't gravity and the earth still rotated the ball would land far away since 1000 mph is like 6 times as fast as a racecar. Unless you are hovering far away where there is negligible gravity, you won't go around the earth. That would be cool though because you would be able to travel large distances just by jumping as the earth spins below you.
2007-11-17 14:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by MathGuy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you hover you reside in an identical place so which you would be the place you began out after 12 hours. Watch a hawk or hummingbird hover and be conscious that they stay in an identical place, with a great form of attempt even with the shown fact that. an identical applies to helicopters or Harrier jets. Gravity and the stream of the earth could be counteracted. As for ending up in China after twelve hours, in the adventure that your supposition would desire to be made to artwork, it might all rely on your beginning component. to stay in an identical place and yet to shuttle is an exciting proposition.
2016-12-09 00:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, no. The earth is spinning on its axis at about, if memory serves me, 1000 miles/hr. Everything on and about the earth is spinning at the same rate so everything appears to be fixed, based upon our point of reference. The moon, the sun, and the other planets appear to be moving across the sky because of their great distant from us and because they are traveling in their orbit around the earth and the sun at a different rate of speed relative to ours here on earth.
My best guess is: the earth and its atmosphere out to many, many miles into space, all rotate about the earth's axis as the "same" rate, or there abouts.
2007-11-17 14:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by Bob D1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you hovered just above the ground, no
2007-11-17 13:40:04 · answer #4 · answered by revoltix 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, because the earth would move away from you on its revolution of the sun
2007-11-17 13:43:00 · answer #5 · answered by murfcop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you have to move to do that.........
don't hover means stationary?
2007-11-17 14:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by LITTLE_JOHN 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends...
2007-11-17 13:40:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-11-17 13:40:31 · answer #8 · answered by M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-11-17 13:39:48 · answer #9 · answered by Crazy Mook 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋