Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?

If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?

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[pct]

I remember when I was a kid, my cousin told me it's faster to walk west as opposed to east. I believed her and I took a very long way to get home and got got in trouble that day :(

[Fummy]

The air spins too. Thats all you needed to say.

[noah_old]

But the earth is flat! (sarcasm joke haha im so funny)

[adityaphatak]

It takes only 90 minutes to fly from my home place to workplace but 1.5 hours to return.

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

Conservation of momentum is one of the leading impediments to science fiction.

[thelaobros]

The same reason why jumping in a non accelerating train won't make you fall back.

[alwayshappy]

Flat Earthers are offended by this video

[patrikstreng]

What is up with earth is flat people? Is it some new troll?

[BioniclesaurKingt]

This comment section: 50% the earth is flat, 50% 100mph is too slow, 50% illuminati.

[tubester]

What if you went straight up into space and just waited for the earth the turn then come down?

[edancoll]

Before you people go crazy over the '100 mp/h' figure, Henry said "Something like 100 mp/h, or so". And the exact speed reaallllyyy doesn't matter for the purposes of this video. Keep those comments to yourselves.

[TheHoaxHotel]

Fievel went west, and that seemed to turn out alright for him.

[FELONIOUSBOLUSS]

Ok how do Flat Earthers explain the coriolis effect?

[Abraham-bsbo]

I made a round trip flight from Los Angeles to Beijing a few years ago and it actually took pretty much the same amount of time when flying either way to the other. Something seems off.

[Master_Therion]

I guess flying South-West wouldn't be faster either. Just cheaper with crappy service.

[OmegaGenesisTrueEarth]

You said the atmosphere is moving with the rotation of the earth but you didn't bother to explain why or how... I know it's because you cannot! Air being unattached to the ground is completely free to stand still or rotate against the theory of earth's rotation but it does not! The only explanation would be that there is no rotation!

[Topsoon]

Everytime I fly back west (home), most of the time the pilots will say "I'm glad to inform you we will be arriving earlier than expected" ...and it's usually like 30 min earlier🤔🤷‍♂️

[lohphat]

Commercial planes take of around 140kts about 160mph and can accelerate to over 500kts (actually a percentage of Mach 1 e.g. 0.75M)
I don't want to be on a plan than only goes 100mph.

[pedhi]

Anyone else ever notice that people who believe in flat earth are usually calm mannered and explain things through their experiments and stuff while people who believe in globe earth are always picking fights and throwing insults and repeating "nasa, gravity, scale..etc." just an outside observation really..but I couldn't even find a flat earther in the comments at all and still there are globe earthers insulting them anyways. Why are they so aggressive ??

[i.need.feet.]

The earth is actually shaped like the illuminati.