Re: Ice melting / Fly infestations?
Originally Posted by
OldGreyFox
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It's a good theory Donkeyman, and you are not butting in, I appreciate your input...........However....
If you threw a handful of rice up in the air while traveling at 125 mph on a train it would drop to the floor and not fly to the front of the train unless the train was to stop suddenly...Inertia perhaps?
Inertia is a totally different thing to gravity OGF, Inertia is really
just a bodies resistance to a change of speed or direction!As the
planet is spinning it generates an outward force that applies to all
loose or seperate objects that exist freely from the earth, such as
oceans, atmosphere, animals etc, etc! These items would, if there
was no gravity! Just be thrown outwards into space and end up
somewhere in space, only gravity (or ( molecular cohesion) keeps
everything on the ground, so to say.
For anything to escape from earths gravity it would have to reach
a speed of 7mls a second irrespective of its mass!
Inertia is the effect you described of going through the windscreen
when your car hits a wall!
It also is the reason you have to use energy to go faster!
Regards Donkeyman!