If the earth is spinning at 460 meters per second, or roughly 1,000 miles per hour, and gravity is a weak force, when why don't we fly off the surface of the earth?
I've heard from a number of flat-earthers that the spinning globe doesn't make sense because the objects would fly off of it. Just like a merry-go-round, the spinning creates a centrifugal force. They usually follow that up with irreverent numbers like the fact that the Earth has a rotational speed of around 1000 mph. But they fail to understand that linear distance traveled is not related to centrifugal force. Example video below.
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