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How high would you have to jump in order to land in a different spot?
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:04 pm
From earths rotation?
Say there’s a one food diameter circle that you are standing in. How high of a jump would land you outside of the circle assuming you are jumping perpendicularly?
Say there’s a one food diameter circle that you are standing in. How high of a jump would land you outside of the circle assuming you are jumping perpendicularly?
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Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:05 pm to OysterPoBoy
Physics brah. You are going the same speed as the ground and air.
Through the atmosphere would be the answer.
Through the atmosphere would be the answer.
This post was edited on 6/12/26 at 6:06 pm
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:06 pm to OysterPoBoy
No more pots for you today.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:07 pm to fightin tigers
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You are going the same speed as the ground and air.
Ok. Assume you are on a board with wheels.
This post was edited on 6/12/26 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:07 pm to OysterPoBoy
You don't even have to jump then.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:08 pm to OysterPoBoy
quote:
How high would you have to jump in order to land in a different spot?
Easy answer!
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quote:
From earths rotation?
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:09 pm to SallysHuman
If nothing mattered other than the earth spinning and you jumping.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:10 pm to OysterPoBoy
Earth's Rotation: Depending on your exact latitude, Earth spins at up to 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h).
Orbiting the Sun: Our planet races around the Sun at about 67,000 mph (107,000 km/h).
Orbiting the Milky Way: The entire Solar System speeds through our galaxy at roughly 514,000 mph (828,000 km/h).
Galactic Motion: Relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation (the thermal leftover from the Big Bang), the Milky Way itself moves at 1.3 million mph (2.1 million km/h) toward the constellation Leo.
We are fast as frick, boy!
Orbiting the Sun: Our planet races around the Sun at about 67,000 mph (107,000 km/h).
Orbiting the Milky Way: The entire Solar System speeds through our galaxy at roughly 514,000 mph (828,000 km/h).
Galactic Motion: Relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation (the thermal leftover from the Big Bang), the Milky Way itself moves at 1.3 million mph (2.1 million km/h) toward the constellation Leo.
We are fast as frick, boy!
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:11 pm to OysterPoBoy
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If nothing mattered other than the earth spinning and you jumping.
I was told there would be no math.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:11 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Assume you are on a board with wheels.
If only there were a word for that...
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:12 pm to OysterPoBoy
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one food diameter circle
Chip, hamburger, or pizza?
Details matter.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:13 pm to OysterPoBoy
What if you are "gravitationally challenged" and have max lift off the earth of say a foot or less?
As to the big picture, better watch this informative bit.
(PS, can we have your liver?)
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:16 pm to OysterPoBoy
About 1,194 ft., give or take a few feet i guess. Or, threeve.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:17 pm to OysterPoBoy
288 feet if downwind. 350 feet if no wind.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:20 pm to GRTiger
this tread feels exclusionary
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:21 pm to Rouge
And yet the stars and constellations have never changed their position in our sky.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:27 pm to OysterPoBoy
Would a plane on a conveyor belt be able to take off?
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:31 pm to OysterPoBoy
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:31 pm to OWLFAN86
You and Chris are being discriminated against in here. I won't stand for it.
Neither will Chris.
Neither will Chris.
Posted on 6/12/26 at 6:40 pm to fightin tigers
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Physics brah. You are going the same speed as the ground and air.
4 DVs/0 UPs at the time of my post. Sad for the education system. There are some second-order effects like wind velocity and direction along with the Cd and CdA of the body, but they said there would be no calculus.
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