The earth's rotation is appr. 1039mph what will happen if a boat can match that speed constantly?
415411
In theory it affects the passage of time aboard the vessel IF it travels in the opposite direction of the earth's rotation... I suggest you read some Stephen Hawking.
63465
For one thing, it takes the earth 24 hours to complete one full rotation, and the earth has circumference of roughly 24,000 miles, which means the speed of its rotation is appx. 1000 mph...\n\nSo if we did not have a protective atmosphere as we do, winds could be up to 1000 mph. Fortunately we do, so the winds we do experience are usually negligible...
407005
I'd say 17000-19000 miles per hour.\n\nIts at a inclined geo-stationary orbit probably.
673492
No. If the Earth suddenly came to a stop and started orbiting the sun in the opposite direction it would probably kill us all. Inertia is not your friend.
476223
The Earth rotates once in 24 hours, and its (equatorial) radius is 3,963 miles (6,378 km). As with the Moon, the rotational speed starts at zero at either geographic pole and increases as you head toward the equator, where it reaches its maximum of about 1038 mi/hr (1669 km/hr). At 45 degrees north or south latitude, the rotational speed is about 0.7 of this maximum speed.
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I'm not sure I really understand your question.  Are you how fast a particular point on earth is moving?  If that is the case it's not an easy answer because it depends where you are on the planet.  If you are on one of the poles then there is very little rotational speed.  If you are on the equator then your velocity is much greater.  Think of it like a CD in a CD player.  Also you would need to factor in the speed of the earth as it travels around the sun sometimes spinning in the same direction the earth is traveling resulting in a greater total velocity and sometimes spinning in the opposite direction yielding a lower total velocity.  The final analogy would be to tie a CD player to a string and swing it in circles while the CD is playing.  The speed of a single point, other than the center, of the CD is constantly changing.  However, it's still not even that simple due to the earth's eliptical orbit and varied velocity.
901606
It spins roughly at the speed it orbits earth. I believe there is a slight "wobble" in the spin which enables astronomers to see about 3/4 of the moon over time. \nIf it spun at the same speed as the earth, the spin would have no effect on earth, but it would cause the moon to get hot inside because of the tidal effect. \nThe tidal effect acts like a brake.
233087
this is where relativity comes into play. It depends from what viewpoint. speed is always relative to a "fixed" point (which might not be so "fixed" after all). get my drift?
792914
Yep.  If you put a 1000 ton boat in the ocean, the level rises just as if you put 1000 tons of salt water in the ocean.  Don't try to measure it though.
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about 1000 mph.\n\napprox #'s here--earth is 25,000 miles in circuvfrence, 24 hours per day.   this is at equator.\n\ni am thinking, the farther away from equator, the speed can be progressivly slower.
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Ask your son to turn around in a circle once per day.  That is the rate  of the earth spinning.   One rotation per day.  Did he get dizzy?  \n\nSpinning is angular speed or angular frequency( the rate it turns through an angle), not the speed, tangent to the circumference of the earth.\n\nThe earth spinning is improperly linked to 1000 mph.  The earth spins one time per day.  The surface velocity is 1000mph at the outer surface of the earth, but that is just like going straight at 1000mph.\n\nThe surface speed of the earth is undetectably with out a frame of reference.  Just as speeding in a car...without looking out the window, you don't know if you are moving that fast.  We only detect a change, acceleration.  The earth spins so slowly, we don't detect the angular frequency as being dizzy.
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1. If the Earth's rotation INSTANTLY stopped, everything not fixed to the Earth would continue to rotate around at the same velocity that they were before due to conservation of momentum. To us it would feel like a giant earthquake where the Earth would suddenly start "moving" in the opposite direction of the rotation. Buildings would collapse, the oceans would wash up onto land in large tidal waves, and there would be a large atmospheric wind shear at the surface. (The atmosphere is not attached to the planet either and would keep rotating too). Since we are traveling at about 460 m/s at the equator (about 1000 miles per hour) we would be tossed pretty far. (We wouldn't fly off the earth, though. Escape velocity is much higher.) As my officemate said when I told him about this question "We would be thrown into the wall at 1.5 times the speed of sound as the building was tipped off its foundation." \n\n2. Seismic waves from the impact would travel through the earth causing massive earthquakes. Depending on the size and velocity of the impactor, the earth might even break apart. \n\n3. Much of the atmosphere would be boiled off. A fireball would expand outward destroying material in it's path and polluting the rest of the atmosphere. \n\nThose things would probably kill all life and level everything on the Earth's surface! It would be much worse than the extinction event that may have contributed to dinosaur extinction. \n\nIf we were magically able to stop the Earth with no bad consequences, life on a non-rotating or retrograde (backwards) rotating planet would be very strange. \n\n* On a retrograde rotating planet, the sun and all the stars would rise in the west and set in the east. \n\n* If the rotation was very slow, the day could be very long. This would have a huge effect on plant and animal life on the earth, some of which could not survive many days with no sunlight. \n\nIf there are any physics enthusiasts out there, from knowledge of the mass of the earth, the radius of the earth, the earth's escape velocity (use as impactor velocity), the rotation period of the earth, and the average density of the earth you can calculate a very rough estimate of the size of an impactor needed to stop the earth's rotation. If I assume that the earth collides with an object just sitting in its orbit right at the edge at the equator I get a rough radius of 1600 km for the needed size. In reality, you would probably need something much, much bigger. There are not any objects of this size in the solar system that we don't know about, which means that this scenario can't really happen.
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I assume you are wondering if the Earth's rotation will come into play here.  \n\nThe answer is yes.  This is the same as asking if a ball thrown in an airplane will land back in the person's hand.  Why is that so?  Everything in the plane is moving at the same speed, even the air molecules inside the cabin.  So, when the ball is thrown up, since it had the plane's speed before it was thrown, it will have that speed while going in the air, and since the air molecules are trucking along with everything else, they won't hinder the ball's motion.  \n\nIf you were to be able to watch the ball be thrown from outside the cabin, you would see the ball follow a curved parabolic path, where everyone in the cabin would see it go straight up and straight down.  You would see that curved path, because of the ball's horizontal motion due to the plane's speed.  Everyone inside wouldn't not see that, because they too are traveling with that same horizontal motion.\n\nSame thing applies here.  You share the same tangential speed as the Earth's surface, and so do all of the air molecules.  If you were able to jump for that long of time, you and everyone else around you would see you go straight up and straight down.  However, if you were being watched from space, you would follow a parabolic curve because of your tangential motion.
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As the earth rotates on its axis, the atmosphere is rotating with it.  Otherwise there'd be a constant wind, like in a fast-moving car on a still day,  as we were dragged through the atmosphere at the speed of the earth's rotation, yes?   And all winds would blow from east to west, and we know that's not the case.  \n\nBut the rotation of the earth does have an important effect on the weather.   A strange thing about rotating a globe is that a point on the equator has to move much faster to make it all the way around the waist of the globe in 24 hours than a point up around the Arctic circle has to move to make it all the way around the Arctic circle in 24 hours. (you can test this with a piece of string: The length of a piece of string wrapped around a globe at the level of New York is much shorter than a piece of string wrapped around the globe at the equator, right?)\n\n  You know that, looking at the globe with the sun behind your back, as the world turns, the continents pass off to the right (the east). New York crosses into the sun at dawn while San Francisco is still on the dark side of the globe.  Because the surface of the earth at the  equator is rotating faster than the surface of the earth 500 miles north of the equator, so is the air above it.  But the air above the equator isn't attached to the air above a point 500 miles north.  So the faster-moving and slower-moving air rub past each other.  This forms a kind of bow wave at the equator, like the wave that peels back from the bow of a boat as it moves through the water. Think of a big arrow pointing to the right and wrapped around  the equator.  So the air peels  back to either side of the equator, and forms a swirling current--curling counter-clockwise above the equator and clockwise below it.  This is called the coriolis wind.  It's one important factor in where weather comes from.
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It is because of the Earth's rotation.
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the earth spins at 1500 mph.  If you take a ball and spin it extreemly fast you will find that the center of the ball will grow and the poles will flatten.  It is like driving a car very fast.  The higher up ion speed you go the lower to the ground it will become.  I has to do with Volocity.
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the earth's orbital speed is 67 000 miles per hour.