Off Topic If a helicopter hovers above Earth. Does Earth move?

[Lapedog]

Is that true? I know about drag but I don't know if jumping in the bed of a pickup going 100mph (a number i picked arbitrarily) will have enough drag to "knock" you out the back of the moving pickup.

Why do Canadians talk like that? I don't know I think it's something to do with all the maple syrup and beavers.

 

[r8shell]

If I'm in an elevator, and the cable breaks and it's plummeting down, all I have to do is jump up in the air just before we hit the bottom floor, right? Then when I land, I'm only falling from a height of about one foot.

Back to the original question; the Earth's atmosphere is rotating along with the Earth. If your question were about a satellite, rather than a helicopter, it might make sense.

 

[UffDa]

What happens if Chuck Norris is in the chopper?

 

[Rupestris]

What happens if Chuck Norris is in the chopper?

10' above the ground as the OP asked, or when in Low Earth Orbit?

 

[UffDa]

10' above the ground as the OP asked, or when in Low Earth Orbit?

I doesn't make any difference when Chuck is involved. If the helicopter stops, so does the earth.

 

[knarfeng]

think this thread is done. Choices are to close it or move it to Whine and Cheese.

Closed.