Comment on xkcd #2882: Net Rotations
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months agoYes, we would affect the Earth’s rotation. It’s just by a ridiculously small amount that nobody would ever be able to measure.
Comment on xkcd #2882: Net Rotations
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months agoYes, we would affect the Earth’s rotation. It’s just by a ridiculously small amount that nobody would ever be able to measure.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
Now I am wondering how many humans would it take?
Aceticon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The mass of the Earth is 5.972 × 10^24^, so you would need 5.972 × 10^20^ humans of 100 Kg each all turning in the same direction to make the Earth rotate 1% the other way (so about 597,200,000 trillion humans).
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
how fast do you spin them?
Atlas_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Whatever amount of people it’d take, the effect we’d make, would cancel at break.
m0darn@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I was going to say a similar thing, how are you going to get gone without canceling it out.
But also if you walked away from the equator then walked until you were directly north/ south of your home before walking home, some effect would remain.
MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t believe that to be correct, but I’m to stupid to refute you. So I’ll take it as facts. Thank you for enlightening me.