If a peguin fell over could it get back up? (see details)?
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how do u think they get up from those awesome belly slides they love to do? they push up from the ground with their beaks and front wing things and they can stand up.
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The rotational energy you impart to the object when spinning overcomes the force of gravity that would topple a stationary object.  \n\nA total layman's explanation:\n\nA perfect stationary top perfectly balanced will not fall over.  In real life though,it's impossible to perfectly balance a top.  It's shape practically guarantees that its center of gravity will not be directly over the balance point for any practical length of time.  Imperfections in the material will cause a slightly uneven weight distribution, air currents will introduce a small force, and mechanical vibrations will be transmitted through the medium the top rests on.  The upshot of all this is that as soon as the center of mass is no longer over the resting point, gravity is going to pull the top over.  \n\nNow gravity has an acceleration of 32 feet per second squared (if I remember my ancient high school course correctly).  It can only topple the top at a specific speed.  If you spin the top fast enough, any side that gravity tries to "pull down" will translate around so quickly that it literally has no time to fall.  If you were standing on a planet with a much higher gravity, you'd have to spin the top far faster to achieve stability, and if you were on the moon, it would spin for a much longer time. Eventually, however, the top starts to slow and the tip will inscribe little circles.  That action is called "precession".  And of course, eventually the thing drops to the table and the game is all up once it slows enough.\n\nAgain, that's a layman's view of how it works.  Some college physics major is probably going to come in here and make my answer look really foolish.
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fall on purpose after they throw you in the air
420139
Not unless the wind carries it because whilst the earth is spinning around rapidly, so is everything on it. If this were not the case, and a person jumped straight up into the air they would shoot of in a direction and this doesnt happen
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the only possible way for you to be able to go "up & down"...\n\nif your bum is made of rubber cause its gonna hit the ground ground ground.\n\n:)
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Ok well lets assume that we are not taking pressure or temperature into account, nor friction due to to air speed etc. If you jumped in the hole you would fall, and continue falling at greater and greater speed. Now as you approach the center of the earth the force of gravity would decrease  but  momentum would keep you going right thru the center and  towards the other side.\nNow gravity would start to increase again as you get farther from the center, but it would tend to start slowing you down. until it caused you to stop, right about the other side of the hole in the earth. Think of a bungee jumper, same thing. Now if you were not able to hold on to something you would start falling back down the hole and it would repeat.\n\nOf course this is a VERY simplified view of what would happen. In reality  you have things like the rotation of the earth th consider, which would cause you not to fall straight down the hole, but into the side wall of the hole. But it is a good thought experiment to help understand gravity.
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Certainly possible in theory. I doubt if anyone has ever done it in practice.\n\n\nRemember that a plane stays up in the air because of the speed that the air moves over its wings, not beceuse of how fast the plane moves relative to the ground. If a plane turns into the wind it can generate the same lift while travelling slower relative to the ground. With a strong enough headwind it is quite possible for a plane to remain stationary and airborne\n\nBut as I said, this is only theoretically possible. I've seen light planes do this and hang-gliders and birds do it all the time. But it would be incredibly dangeorus for a 'passenger flight'. If the wind were to drop, even for amoment, the plane would immediately stall and fall from the sky. It's fairly easy for a light plane or glider to recover from such a stall, but a large commercial passenger craft would find it much harder. There's a good chance it would crash.
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Once it stopped spinning, it would most likley lose its balance, walk sideways, and eventually fall over
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You could ram the iceberg head on. If you do that, then the ship wouldn't sink, because the water would only get in the first, or maybe second watertight compartment, rather than five compartments like it did happen.
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I would suggest puchasing a new one as well, you may be able to repair that, but the structure itself may have been compromised and I wouldn't want to risk having it break entirely.
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Sure, it would require some force in the up direction, like a parachute.
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it is possible but there would be damage.
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they wouldnt get off the ground!
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Sorry, no.  You'd splat at the bottom of the hill in real life.\n\nThe reason for this rests in a physical law that says if you're going straight, you'll continue straight (down hill) until a force stops you from going straight.  Spinning is not that force.\n\nThe momentum (which is the thing that keeps you going straight) is linear (straight).  Spinning is angular (it goes around, not straight).  So the forces required to start spinning are not straight (they act over angles) and will not affect your straight march into that wall at the bottom of the hill.\n\nOf course, if you simply fall down, the ground pushing on you as you hit it is a linear force.  Your linear momentum will be changed (stopped in this case).  Thus, it will in fact stop you on your downward destiny with that wall at the bottom of the hill.\n\nI tried to keep equations and such out of this, just the one notion: momentum will keep you going straight downhill until you apply a linear force (not angular like spinning) to stop your run.
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NO.\nSHE IS NOW AT DOWNWARDS JOURNEY.\nSHE CANT GO UP.
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We have to insure that the coin is fairly weighted. (if one side is heavier then the other, it could land wrong.)  The horizontal surface must be completely flat.  The coin should be dropped on edge, in a repeatable fashion. (So that whatver drops it isn't angling it or affecting it.
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Only if it fell on him...