Quote (card_sultan @ 4 Oct 2016 13:30)
You dont have enough understanding of the facts to explain or comprehend them.
What speed is the satellite traveling at when it is 100 feet above the rock?
What speed is the satellite traveling at when it is actually landed on the rubber ducky rock?
The fact you can't even answer this most basic question is but a window into your understanding.
do you understand what "speed relative to another object means"?
to give you an example you can ponder on:
take the passenger in a train close to the equator
the train travels at 100 km/h and the passenger walks in he train in the direction the train travels at 5 km/h
how fast is the passenger moving?
do not forget that the speed of earth rotation at the equator is 460 m/s
and the speed of earth rotation around the sun is 30 km/s
also the solar system travels at an average speed of 230 km/s around the galactic centre
our galaxy moves at ...
seems the passenger walks pretty fast according to your logic
This post was edited by brmv on Oct 4 2016 08:06am