 Conceptual Question
On 04/23/07 14:16, ArtP wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2007 13:02:04 -0700, Little Endian <girish.pai@>
> wrote:
>
>
>>If you can stay at the same point relative to space, then you would
>>probably be hundreds of thousands of miles away in 12 hrs because the
>>earth is also moving around the sun besides rotating.
>
> That assumes you did not pick a spot that was directly in the path of
> the earth, in which case what you would have is an immoveable object
> meeting an unstoppable one. Not a pretty sight.
Well, between the Earth and an air/space craft, one of them does not
really qualify as immovable/unstoppable, relatively speaking ;-) |