@sebbunney 4. Much of the atmosphere did float away but we are now in equilibrium between the atomic repulsion pushing atoms into the vacuum of space and the effects of earth’s gravity pulling them back. We still lose some to the vacuum of space due to solar winds that disrupt this balance.
@sebbunney 3. This is also about scale. The coriolis effect is there, but just small relative to thinks like the winds of the jet stream and other thinks like fuel weight changes. It is taken into account for extremely long flights though.
@sebbunney 2. You are correct, you do weigh less at the equator that the poles, but the scale of centrifugal effect is extremely small relative to the effects of gravitational force, so you need a very accurate scale to detect the differences.
@sebbunney 1) the issues is that of massive distance differences. Other stars in the galaxy change position almost imperceptibly during a human lifespan, whereas the rotation of the earth happens more than 35,000 times in a human lifespan.
@Jason@TheStalwart The All In pod would be more successful if they got a moderator who moderated rather than giving uneducated opinions based on no meaningful real world experience.
@RHodls Correction. MSFT said .5% voted for it. They never mention what % voted against it. Getting 51% of largely passively invested shareholders to vote on anything is impossible. It was a PR stunt to quiet an activist shareholder, not a serious vote.
.5% for it, 0% against it.