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Because they are constantly corrected by the pilot or autopilot. But ballistic objects are affected. The V-2 missiles were "aimed" with consideration of the Earth's rotation. I should mention that it works on smaller systems with higher rotational speeds. There was, near my community, an amusement park with a circular rotating room. People would go in and line up around the wall, after which the room would begin to rotated. Eventually, the floor would drop down, and you'd be held against the wall. Which seemed like a great opportunity to me. My son and I went in, and tossed ping pong balls, which (in the rotating frame of reference of the room) did indeed fly in curved paths.
As we left the ride, security asked us to leave the park, which we did.
Barbarian observes:
So far, no one has been able to offer an explanation for the fact that one can launch larger payloads into space when launching eastward close to the equator, other than the Earth's rotation.
And the European Space Agency, and Russia's Roscosmos, and the Indian Space Research Organization , and the China National Space Administration and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, among others. There are 14 space agencies capable of launching satellites at this time. I know, it's the Great American, Russian, Chinese, European, Japanese conspiracy to fake space craft launches, right?
Barbarian observes:
So far, no one has been able to offer an explanation as to why a large earthquake very slightly changed the apparent movement of the stars immediately after, other than the Earth's rotation.
Sorry, you're wrong. Immediately after the earthquake, there was a measurable change in the apparent motion of stars, precisely the amount of change that would be attributable to the quake. No point in denial. And inertia is a very measurable concept.
If not, it's hard to explain how the Lunar Ranging Mirror Array got set up there. And we know it's there, because every observatory on Earth can bounce lasers off it and get extremely precise measurements of lunar distance. So now all the astronomers on Earth are in on the great conspiracy, um?
Even 300 years ago, sailors knew that's wrong:
Prevailing winds are
winds that blow consistently in a given direction over a particular region on Earth.
[1] Due to factors such as uneven
heating from the
Sun and the Earth's rotation, these winds vary at different latitudes on Earth.
Sailors chose their latitudes according to the direction they wanted to go, and they avoided if they could, the dreaded Doldrums.
Doldrums | meteorology
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