If the Earth were spinning...

The Earth rotates at 2,670 kilometres per hour at the equator (decreasing as the cosine of the latitude as you move north or south of there)..

If an aircraft takes off at the equator and flies west at 1,760 kph to a destination 1,760 kilometres away, it will arrive there in an hour.

However, an observer in space would see the aircraft lift off, remain stationary in the air while the Earth rotated beneath it, and then descend to its destination once that rotated around.

That’s because (and this is the bit you seem not to comprehend) [b]all motion is relative. [/b]

There is no absolute motion.

Unless, like the rest of us, he was held by gravity, and the whole thing moved along with the planet.
People really should do their homework.
But you don’t believe in gravity, do you ?

What, you don't think the atmosphere spins along with the ground? You don't think the atmosphere pushes that helicopter along?

Actually there are several subtle tests that prove the Earth spins. One is a Foucault Pendulum. The dynamics equations for the Foucault Pendulum are taught in upper level undergraduate physics courses. They depend on a characteristic of rotating frames of reference known as the "Coriolis Force" or Coriolis effect.

Coriolis effect appears in many places on Earth. It's the reason winds rotate around low pressure centers. This rotation can cause hurricanes and tornadoes. The rotation of the winds isn't random. And it wouldn't happen if the Earth didn't rotate.

Coriolis effect explains why river banks in the northern hemisphere erode their right hand banks more so than their left (right hand as you look in the direction of flow), causing rivers to meander. River banks in the southern hemisphere erode their left hand banks more so than their right. Similarly, railroad tracks can wear out quicker on one side than the other.

@TBIman It’s complications you want to avoid? Do you know what an epicycle is? In the ptolemaic (or earth centered) theory of the solar system it was an attempt to explain why the planets appeared to be traveling backwards in their orbit around earth sometimes. They don’t but since they are on their own orbital track, the earth occasionally laps them and they lap us, much like runners on a laned track.

These epicycles got inordinately complicated until we (Copernicus that is) realized all the planets orbited the sun. Seeing the truth was a great simplified of the facts.

Take an astronomy 101 course at a community college. Really you need a strong dose of truth.

The atmosphere is part of the earth. It’s the same reason the oceans spin with the earth. I guess fluid dynamics weren’t part of your “edukashon”

The air is moving with the earth and the air that's forced downward by the propellers pushes against that air (and also the ground at first).

U r full of it.

Even idiots can create memes.

Takes another idiot to believe what they're reading, however.

Einstein couldn't hold his beer but his brother Zweistein could (relatively speaking.) Zweistein proposed the even-more-general theory of relativity, succinctly stated as : "it all depends".

@TBIman
Most people I know learned basics of science when they started school, not before. Evidently you got things backwards.

Indeed, but nobody would notice as in 24 hours he would be right back in the same place. 1/0 to the Flat Earth.

If the earth spins at 1000 miles per hour which converts to .27 miles per second. If I jump up and down I should be able to jump 1 mile every 4 seconds. Way cheaper and faster than car.

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Same.