The North Pole

[jmeehan]

Here's something I've always wanted to know...



If you stand on the geographic north pole, do you get dizzy from the earth spinning?

 

[lschultz]

Well I can anwer that. On second thought I can not cause I ain't never been to the North Pole. But I think theres one individual on here that could answer that.

 

[B.G. Smith]

Poles

I don't know for sure but I have heard that if you stand on the North Pole for a while then go and stand on the South Pole it will make your eyes cross, or was that sonmething else? bg

 

[illflem]

Don't know if it will make you dizzy but...

If you look up at the north pole, all the stars will be spinning except Polaris. It still takes about 24 hours to spin around no matter where on earth you stand.

Another thing that happens at the north pole is that no matter which way you step you will be going south

 

[The patriot]

If you played twister (remember that game?) on the North pole, you can be in several different time zones at once.

Eric

 

[Adam]

Are we talking magnetic north, true north, grid north, or North Pole, Alaska? I'm pretty certain they're all rather geographically separate.



Illflem, I thought if you pointed your camera at the North star and took a time-lapse photo from anywhere, all the other stars would tend to trace a circle around it? Read it in a photo magazine somewhere, but then again, it might have been written by a Frenchman...



-Adam

 

[jmeehan]

Ya' know, I hadn't taken into account the fact that it would take 24 hrs to make one revolution. I just think about how fast the earth rotates (I forget now, but it surprised me when I first heard it) so I figured the pole (true north is what I meant by geographic, my fuzzy brain wasn't thinking to well yesterday) would rotate just as fast.

Now I think about it more like a truck differential, one wheel at the equator has to really move to make it around the big ol' curve in 24 hrs. The other wheel at the pole just loafs along, not going very far or fast.

I like the idea of several time zones at once, I've always thought you could take just one step south, then go east (or west) and circumnavigate the pole

All this brings another thought to mind. Do I have to much time on my hands or does my brain just stay busyer then I do?

 

[lschultz]

You fellows are me. Is the South Pole at the bottom?I'm beginning to wonder if my head is on the North Pole or South Pole. Or is it east or west?Am I in a circle or a square?Thanks for another one of your stimulation questions Doc.

 

[jmeehan]

Doc? He's nowhere in this post, though I did expect him to jump in.

I thought this one up several years ago, I just never had access to such a large group of experts to ask the question of before.

 

[lschultz]

Excuse me. Theres so many questions on here and Doc asks so many of them I don't know if I'm coming or going. I just assumed it was another one of his questions(I have been told many a time not to assume things).

 

[jmeehan]

It's all right... it's flattering to have one of my questions confused with one of his inane brain twisters. I mean that in a good way Doc.

 

[dpuckett]

85CJ,



The earth spins at about 1000 mph at the equator. AS you go north, it "slows down" to where you are almost stopped at the North Pole

 

[TPlasek]

How fast would the earth have to spin before it started to "fling" people off the surface??? Hint: when the centripital force is greater then the force of gravity... I had this question on a physics exam once... .

 

[WDaniels]

Tplasek,

I read somewhere that it takes an object IE... . space shuttle, capsule the approx speed of 17,500 mph to escape earths gravity. Don't know if it would be the same at the surface of the earth but don't know why it wouldn't be.