AnecDOTES.

[ignoramus]

Now you're just moking!

Anyway, that would make you a very attractive mokingbird!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

One of my brothers once shot a rabbit as it was coming out of a hole in the ground. A week later, he shot a second rabbit coming out of the same hole.

Clearly then, holes in the ground spontaneously generate rabbits.

Boru

That doesn't sound right....

Are you sure that the hole wasn't a portal to a nearby rabbit universe That would make more sense...

I'm not sure, but it's probably something to do with all those quantums people keep yammering on about.

Boru

[Succubus#2]

Watership down.

You've seen the movie.

You've read the book.

Now shoot the cast.

A butcher shop in Wales years ago:



Unsurprisingly there was an uproar. No sense of tradition some people.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

When the Earth spins around, it makes a breeze.  That's where wind comes from.

Boru

When I was in primary school, the teacher asked us how we know the earth rotated.
I'm assuming she was hoping we'd say "because day and night" but I said because what you said.

I told her because when the earth spins the clouds try to keep up but they never do, which is why we always see clouds moving ever so slowly.

No idea if it was bullshit, but I still remember the glazed look in her eyes. She couldn't agree or disagree.
I'm 56 yo now and I still don't know the answer   oh look, a squirrel blue tongue lizard!

Clouds don't move along the direction of rotation except by accident. And they don't "move" like you propose, they would be traveling at ~1,000 mph at the equator if that were true.

[ignoramus]

But that would assume no friction with the planet. Since they have mass, they "should" be just as affected by the earth's gravity and the natural rotation of the earth as well.
I think the answer lies somewhere in between...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Most clouds look either like boobs or like penises. This proves that Mother Nature is intersex.

Boru

[Pat Mustard]

There are actually two suns in the sky. The Irish government is supressing this fact, I have it on the best of authority.

When I was in a pub in west Cork a couple of years ago two random women tolde me that. Can't get more authoritative than that.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There are actually two suns in the sky.  The Irish government is supressing this fact, I have it on the best of authority.

When I was in a pub in west Cork a couple of years ago two random women tolde me that.  Can't get more authoritative than that.

They aren't suppressing it very well, then.  There were plenty of times in Ireland when I saw two of everything.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

But that would assume no friction with the planet. Since they have mass, they "should" be just as affected by the earth's gravity and the natural rotation of the earth as well.
I think the answer lies somewhere in between...

I assume you mean gravitational interaction between the planets (and the Sun, of course)?

[ignoramus]

No, gravity is holding the squillions of tons of atmosphere to the earth.
Does the earth (soil) rotate as one with its atmosphere? Or does the earth (soil) rotate and "drag" the atmosphere around with it with slight lag. Hence wind