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metroshane
10-18-1999, 01:50 PM
the earth spins on an axis (picturing a ball with a pencil stuck through it). it spins at a certain velocity. and we don't really notice in everyday life because of gravity and stuff.

BUT, if you were on the axis, where you would presumably spin faster, would you get dizzy?

santa is at north pole, is he dizzy?

if this has already been discussed, please link to it, i couldn't find anything.
Undead Dude
10-18-1999, 02:03 PM
Ummm.... I think you need to think this through a little more.

Imagine that you are standing on a rotating stage. The stage goes around once per day. Do you think this would make you dizzy?
UncleBeer
10-18-1999, 02:09 PM
Or ask yourself this question, which moves faster the hub of a wheel or a point on the rim?

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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart
metroshane
10-18-1999, 02:10 PM
i did think this through and don't see the relevence of your reply. if the stage is very very large, then yes this would make a difference.

if run around a tree real fast, i'll get dizzy, but if i run around a track, i won't.
metroshane
10-18-1999, 02:12 PM
....even if i am running the same d/t.
UncleBeer
10-18-1999, 02:22 PM
But it takes far longer to run around the track than it does the tree. Would you get dizzy if it took you as long to circle the tree as is does the track? I think not.

It is a matter of the amount of time it takes to complete one revolution, no matter the distance covered. So, it takes 24 hours to make one revolution on earth no matter what your location is. In other words yourangular velocity remains constant.



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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart
DSYoungEsq
10-18-1999, 02:47 PM
Hypothesis: A person at the pole would get dizzy from the spin of the earth.

Verifying experiment: Stand in one spot. Turn on that spot so that, in 24 hours, you again face the direction you started. Note effects.
UncleBeer
10-18-1999, 02:48 PM
Succinctly put Mr Young. Sometimes the obvious escapes me.

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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart
metroshane
10-18-1999, 02:54 PM
thank you
10-18-1999, 03:22 PM
Ah, you can't fool-a me--there ain't no Sanity Clause!
C K Dexter Haven
10-18-1999, 07:18 PM
Hey, every Christmas Eve, the guy drinks a little rum, a little hot toddy, a little wine, or a little spiked egg nog at every house on the planet... and you wonder why he's a little dizzy?
10-18-1999, 11:28 PM
::looking nervously over shoulder for cowboys::

::loud whisper:: "Dex! Be careful what you say!"

-Melin
NanoByte
10-19-1999, 01:18 AM
This thread makes me dizzy as read at any speed.

Ray (heading for the South Pole to unwind)
10-19-1999, 08:19 AM
metro,if you believe santa is at the north pole,You are the one thats dizzy!
10-19-1999, 08:19 AM
He actually lives next door to Cecil!
okatym
10-19-1999, 10:02 AM
You're all wrong.

Santa's real.

There is no Cecil.

But, as long as there is a little bit of Cecil in all of us, he will live forever.
SuaSponte
06-20-2000, 10:35 AM
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Cecil Clause."

If I had any writing skills, I'd create a thread on MPSIMS converting the famous editorial in honor of Unca Cece. Anyone here up to the challenge?

V.