26.10.2011, 08:25
-TRUE-
Back at high school time a classmate claimed that, if you board on a stationary balloon, Earth would keep rotating below you, so that you would circumnavigate the whole world in only 24 hours.
We pointed out that this is impossible, because the atmosphere would rotate with the surface, so the balloon would move along.
After some thinking, he stated that this could be solved: the balloon would be kept still by anchoring it to the ground.
I think Jules Verne is still turning in his grave :roll:
They Walk Among Us!
Back at high school time a classmate claimed that, if you board on a stationary balloon, Earth would keep rotating below you, so that you would circumnavigate the whole world in only 24 hours.
We pointed out that this is impossible, because the atmosphere would rotate with the surface, so the balloon would move along.
After some thinking, he stated that this could be solved: the balloon would be kept still by anchoring it to the ground.
I think Jules Verne is still turning in his grave :roll:
They Walk Among Us!