Recent content by Astaroth

Ah, see, I missed the "over the Pacific" part. Sorry about that. That explains a lot then. Sorry about that.

Sorry but I am almost certain that Westward is quicker, and a quick google will give you tons of proof (even though I actually experience this several times a year flying from home to uni and back). Just one example: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/dynamics/q0027.shtml

So, wait, does the Earth rotate into the east or the west? Because I'm actually quite certain that as far as flight times go, east to west is shorter, actually by almost an hour from london to new york.

Uhm, what exactly was I wrong about? Am I missing something here, doesn't the Earth rotate towards the east? Also, "escape its inertia" is just figurative, i mean something like "get over its inertia". There is no reason to be condescending, by the way. I am just asking questions.

Ok never mind I worked it out with some help from someone. Basically since the airplane just pushes air back in order to propel itself forward, the inertia is always taken into account and never disappears, so anything that happens in the frame of reference of the atmosphere that actually...

Nope. Are you implying i could have got it somewhat backwards? :P

That's very interesting indeed, a good way to convincingly prove the point (however obvious it may be to some). Ok, but why? considering the things I mentioned above... I mean you sort of need to address the question of how the inertia is maintained if the friction is much lower and there IS a...

Ok I think I've got it pretty much, it's all due to friction and inertia. That brings me to my next question, which is actually where this debate started. I'm sure many of you are aware that plane journeys from East to West take less time than the same journey from West to East. The classical...

is it really enough friction to consistently keep the whole of the atmosphere rotating at 1000mph? that sounds really odd.

Why would the Earth spin the lower atmosphere? there is no friction between them.

But the whole of the Earth's atmosphere rotates along with the earth, why?

I've been having a huge debate about this, some people are saying "air resistance" and that just makes zero sense to me, because the moon has no atmosphere and Neil Armstrong rotated along with the moon with no problem whatsoever. I am thinking it has to have something to do with the...