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You probably could, but since you'd be so high, you'd be lacking oxygen, which is why astronauts have the outfits they have. Other than that, airlines use the Earth's rotation to there advantage. If you have a two way flight from Los Angeles to New York, your flight back (New York to Los...

I think it's Faradays law that states if you move a piece of conductor through a magnetic field, voltage will be induced in the conductor (this is the principle on how most, if not all electric motors work), so NASA's experiment probably worked, but it didn't really do any good for us down here...

To idea numero uno... SIMPLE ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED NOR DISTROYED, ONLY CHANGE FORMS. You lift ball = kinetic energy into potential energy For the "ground to disappear" you need energy to make it disappear, and one part of that large amount of energy you need to move it will be the...

This may seem like a useless thing to do, but the idea I had in mind is somewhat interesting. If instead of the rope we could make a conductor orbit in space, the potential difference between the one end of the conductor on Earth and the other end in orbit would be significantly different...

So you're saying if the centre of the rope is in orbit then the entire rope will stay in orbit but if the centre of the rope is in the Earth's atmosphere then gravity will pull the rest of the rope down? What about momentum in space? Since there are no forces (friction) acting on the rope...

Interesting Question... If I were to tie one end of a rope (a very very long rope) to the ground and the other end to a rocket, and fired the rocket into space, would the rope stay in orbit without falling back down to earth? Assume once the rope was fully vertical that the rocket was...