Posted by Dr. Science on 01/14/2013 in
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If the earth spins on its axis while it rotates around the sun, why don’t Iget dizzy more often?
———- from Star Wholethumb of Eugene OR
You can only get so dizzy and then you break through the other side, and progress towards undizziness. This process usually reaches its peak in the first year of life, which is why babies fall down so often. If the earth were to stop spinning and circling the sun, even newborn babies would be able to walk just fine, but the rest of us who have adapted to this amusement park ride would suffer horribly from motion sickness. So it’s a trade-off, us or them. Until newborns get the political clout to do something about it, I imagine the planet will continue on its present course. Toddlers will toddle and we’ll continue to march, tall and erect, towards a bright future.