+409 At any given point, if you jump perfectly straight in the air, the earth will move with out you and you will stand in a different spot than before you jumped, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well you have the same momentum as the earth, so when you jump in the air, you are moving at the same speed as the earth, so you should land in the same place

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not if you do it right.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just dont think its accurate. you must keep the same speed as the earth when you jump, you dont just stop in midair, otherwise it would seem as if you went flying off the earth at a ridiculous speed

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant the movement of the tectonic plates... I said earth meaning ground not Earth meaning the planet.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

To be honest, im not exactly sure if it would affect it or not, Im just trying to think about it, you may be right

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, no it can't be right. Even though you are jumping straight into the air , you still have the same gravitational pull which will pull you down onto the exact same spot. Because if you think of it, if you were to jump straight into the air and the Earth still moves without you, technically you would be thrown into a wall at the same speed of the Earth, which is thousands of miles per second.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(EmilyDr-Pepper): So, my question is, what's the difference between our JUMP and someone going in some sort of air-device, let's say a hot air balloon in a secluded area with no wind. Go straight up in the air with the hot air balloon for lets say...12 hours...now go straight down. I don't think the spot will be the same, will it? I have no real insight on this at all, this question is solely out of curioisity and desire to learn.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Have you ever heard of inertia?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

why is everyone agreeing? like everyone has commented that you wouldnt lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

try doing it on a train. it still doesnt work.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nice discussion. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe you'd be in a slightly different spot, but only with a difference of like 1/1000 of a millimeter? I wouldn't know...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i know this is horribly wrong, but at least he tried. and failed

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If the earth is always at the same speed, and there are no factors like air resistance, the position you land will be exactly the same as were you started.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you mean rotation movement when you say that the earth will move without you, you also have the same speed as the movement of the earth so while in the air, you would move with the earth, if it wasn't like this, every second you are jumping you would be 30km away from where you started.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How fast is the human body moving anyways? The speed of the Earth's rotation, on top of the speed of the earth's orbit, on top of the speed of the galaxy twisting? How do you figure out the math of that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everything within the atmosphere moves with the Earth. You'll land in the same place. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe if you manage to jump during a major shift in the tectonic plate you were standing on so that it moves beneath you... but that wouldn't be "at any given point". I'm sure the plates move at an infinitesimally small rate, but since inertia has already been discussed, the same effects apply to your relationship with the plate (along with the inertial laws of earthly objects)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's called the Coriolis effect...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You might not believe me, but i think about this ALL the time!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago