Well, the OP never said you were in or even on the plane when you jumped. Maybe it’s a new form of BASE jumping.
They just hop across the equator - the two hemispheres of the Earth rotate in opposite directions.
Yes but they fix it with CGI
It is true that if you jump on an airplane you will die. It is also true that if you do not jump on an airplane you will die.
Pilot’s quote: “There are only two bad things that can happen to you as a pilot, and one day one of them will. You can walk out to the airplane knowing it’s your last flight. Or, you can walk out to the airplane NOT knowing it’s your last flight.”
Relatively speaking…
People were flying coast to coast long before there was anything close to CGI.
The poor fools simply didn’t know any better.
Couldn’t that be the explanation for all of it? Why bother with reversed CGI films if the passengers are poor fools who don’t know any better?
But they all had jerky walking movements, and it was all in black and white.
Well played, Sir.
I call bullsh*t on this: I’ve crossed the Equator several times on a ship, and if the two hemispheres were rotating like that, there would be a line where the ocean would be travelling at 1,000 mph E to W on one side, and 1,000 mph W to E on the other. How would your average ocean-going ship cross that line?
CGI.
A wizard did it.
How on earth is this thread still in GQ? Or not on earth, as the case may be, but hovering above it apparently. Anyway, point being, um. I forget. Wizards.
Man, I learn so much reading these message boards.
Simple. The air molecules on each side of the seam are configured to act as inverse teleport screens, so that the ship and everything in it reappear on the other side as mirror images of themselves. Since the particles that constitute the ship are reversed, its momentum is also reversed.
The technology for the screens was discovered around 1971, and is also simple in execution, consisting as it does of aiming two world-girdling arrays of 1920s style death rays at each other. An as yet unexplained but pleasant effect is a sudden abundance of pie when a ship crosses the equator and then returns on the same day.
It is theorized (but not yet proven) that the screens and the area between them were were torn out of Time the second the arrays were powered up and therefore must be considered eternal. If true, this might explain the mundane – how seafarers crossed the equator before the arrays were fired – and give us hope of understanding the sublime … it may be the long looked for First Cause.
I second this question!
You would be introduced to the back of the plane. If you left your seat at 150 mph and the plane is accelerating then the difference in the speed before you land is how fast you move back.
Just want to know if could avoid being smashed into the back wall if I were on a treadmill on the plane?