my responses to some of these youtube idiots
yes i know its bait, i dont give a stuff
him: How do you know planes have gone all around the Earth? Because somebody told you or you read it. Try and get a cruise from West Australia to East U.S. Don't just believe me either. Not that you will anyway haha, but seriously try to book one. This flat earth business is quite new to me, but with critical thought and simple math it's a fact something is amiss. The Earth spins thousands of times an hour, yet we can't tell, clouds move in synch pretty much, etc. If we have a storm with a wind speed of 100mph in the way the Earth spins it would have to blow the speed the Earth spins PLUS 100mph. If that is possible then why don't we get winds of that speed in the other direction? It'd destroy us. 1140 mph winds at the equator. We get explanations that we can't feel the earth spinning because we are all moving with it? That doesn't even make sense. Why would we move with it? Theories of the atmosphere don't explain it. Gravity also is just a theory.
me: Cruises simply don't go from West Australia to the Eastern United States due to fuel issues and time. People don't want to be on a cruise for more than two weeks at a time.
Furthermore, the Earth DOES NOT spin "thousands of times an hour". This would mean each day would be a fraction of 60 minutes, which isn't true. However, it does spin at a rotational speed of 1,675 km/hour, or 465 meters/second. Due to the circumference/diameter (both are big numbers) of the Earth, this doesn't mean it's actually spinning "super fast". Imagine a tennis ball and a round object the size of Manhattan. If we mark an equator on both objects, and then put a dot anywhere on that equator, and THEN spin the objects at that rotational speed, the dot on the tennis ball complete a single rotation in less time (due to its size).
Clouds actually do spin at 1,675 km/hour, but the constant right angle force of gravity keeps the speed constant ('null actual wind speeds due to warm/cold air relationships). Jet-streams exist due to the rotation of the earth.
Technically speaking, if the Earth "stops" rotating (but the atmosphere keeps moving, which it will, for a while), the equator will only then experience such winds. The atmosphere moves along with the Earth due to the same reasons you move along with the Earth: gravity (and friction).
Please take an elementary physics class before you spout uneducated bullstuff.
