It sounds like you're saying that liquids (or at least water) aren't affected by, or subject to, gravity?

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Jun 7 2016 02:13am

lmfao

I actually took a Geography class in school and learned how to use a sextant to figure out your latitude using the angle of the sun, so I've actually seen enough from observation to conclude that it makes the most sense that the tropics are, indeed, at 23.5 degrees and are the spots where the sun is straight 'overhead' on the solstices. That's pretty solid evidence that we're talking about a sun that moves north and south throughout the seasons because we're on a wobbly sphere, and I didn't just take people's word for it.

It's actually not even that difficult, so it's not like I'm claiming I'm possessed of some special knowledge. I just went through the fairly boring process of figuring out how to do it and then doing it.

A spinning object repels water. Why doesn't earth?

Because the gravitational force exceeds the centrifugal force. We're also moving at the same constant rate that the Earth does.

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Jun 7 2016 03:06am

To make sense of your idea we must assume the following equation is true and that acceleration due to gravity is -9.8m/s^2 at the surface of the earth. These calculations are going to be made at the equator.
a1 = v^2/r


where
a1= acceleration due to centrifugal force
v = velocity of rotation
r = radius of the earth (6378000m)

to determine the velocity of rotation we will take the circumference of the earth at the equator (known as 40074km in the spherical earth theory) and divide that by the time it takes for one full rotation (rounded to 24hours or 86400 seconds)
40074km / 86400 seconds = 0.46382 km/s or 463.82m/s

a1 = (463.82m/s)^2 / 6378000s
a1 = 0.034m/s^2

Now the net acceleration acting on the water in this system (assuming the centrifugal force is acting in the opposite direction of gravity) is the sum of the acceleration due to the centrifugal force and the acceleration due to gravity.

0.034m/s^2 + -9.8m/s^2 = -9.766m/s^2.

The acceleration due to centrifugal force is not enough to overcome the acceleration due to gravity and therefore the rotation of the Earth does not cause water to spray into outerspace.

This post was edited by majorblood on Jun 7 2016 04:13am

Good thing Piccaso destroyed perspective.

Wow 5 pages... PaRD got trolled good