On the way home, my mind got to working, and I thought I'd share my epiphany with you all... Obviously we should choose the longest car possible. Let's say that the Expedition is 1.5 feet longer than the Explorer. That means that for every mile the Explorer travels, the Expedition has gone an extra 792 feet. That might not seem like much at first, but believe me it'll add up. If it takes someone in a Jeep Liberty 14 hours and 21 minutes to get to Bloomington from here, it would only take us 12 hours and 49 minutes. This is one of those ideas that I'm suprised I haven't seen exploited in televison commercials before!
Then, while my mind was on the subject of efficiency of travel, I had another brilliant flash of genius... We've been living a lie. The scientists, schoolteachers and mothers of the world have all pulled the wool over our eyes. The Earth is standing completely still. The Sun, Moon and stars are obviously rotating around us at a constant speed. How do I know this? How am i so sure that I'm willing to state on this blog that this is absolutely a fact? Let me tell you. If you jump up in the air, what happens? Nothing right? You just come right back down to where you started. If the Earth was really spinning at the rate suggested by so-caled experts, a one second hang-time in Colorado would land me somewhere in Utah (of course I'd do my jumping on the Western Slope so as to avoid smacking into the mountains). Sure you'd always have to travel in a westward direction, but you'd get everywhere so fast. A few years back my friend Rob saw a pickup truck drive past our apartment complex. In the back of the truck was a medium sized dog. As the truck flew by it hit a dip in the road, and consequently the dog bounced up into the air. The dog stayed put, the truck continued on down the road. The dog landed on all fours in the middle of the road. Case closed! If the Earth was really moving then that dog would have stayed with the truck and landed down exactly where it had taken off from, but no it landed in the street. Think of it this way; if the Earth were really spinning around at 1000+ mph, then no standard commercial airliner could keep up, and all Eastbound flights would be cancelled. I'm actually pretty tired of coming up with all this evidence, especially since I know that I have alrady proved my case well beyond your average scientific theory. Therefore, until I see one of you Easterners or Midwesterners hopping by my house at 1000 mph I'll stick to this newfound belief.
2 comments:
Peter, do you have any theories to debunk centripetal force and gravity (I know, piece-of-cake to do so)... just wondering what they might be.
I guess I always just assumed that the reason we fall back where we started (though, not true if you jump really high) is that we wanted to. If you focus real hard, and catch the spin just right, you could land yourself in one sweet wave off the California coast. Just remember, put your mind to it and you can accomplish anything! (Just make sure you take into account wind-resistance).
Isn't it interesting that according to the so-called principle of centripetal force we should be thrown violently away from our planet (if it really were spinning) so they had to come up with the theory of gravity to counterbalance that notion. If you disregard both, you're basically at the same place, just a lot simpler.
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