06 March 2005
Spin Speed
Source: ~A Short History of Nearly Everything~ by Bill Bryson
How fast you are spinning depends on where you are. The speed of the Earth's spin varies from something over 1,600 kilometres an hour at the equator to zero at the poles.
In London, the speed is 998 kilometres an hour.
==> know what this means? This means that in Singapore, the Earth is spinning at 1,600 km/hr underneath our feet! 1,600 km/hr! And we nary feel a thing! How scary is that?
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