"Spinning Earth" theorists, nutters or onto something?

[Iklwa]

Saw something the other day that some scientist recon the Earth is spinning at 1675KM/h. Now I don't know about you, but I think I'd notice if I was doing that sort of speed, but as usual the news is willing to report the "findings" of these fruitcakes.

So I want to break this down. I stand on something moving at 1675KM/h, and hold up a speed recording device. In theory, it should indicate the speed of the spinning planet, yet speed shows as 0. So what is happening? how come the completely inert gasses like the air we breath move at exactly the same speed as the solid spinning object? If I spin a car wheel, the air around it doesn't start spinning, or at least not at the same speed, so in theory, we should look up at the clouds and they should be moving away from us at something over 1000KM/h? Birds would need to fly at 1700KM/h to make any progress when flying with the spinning, and apply some serious braking if flying against it.

They say we don't notice it because of momentum? Well, if I put an ant onto a massive spinning ball, it sure notices it spinning, and would struggle to get around (I think, I don't have anything big enough to test this with), so surely we would feel the movement, and also wouldn't we feel sick? Babies would be born, and be all "whoa, what the hell, feels like we're spinning at 1675km's/h!! Im all over the place, think Im going to be sick!!" but somehow we can all walk and act normally, at 1675km/h!!?? Not possible, surely?

I can't figure it out, maybe we are spinning, but sounds like (as they do with most things) they've over exaggerated the speed, we're probably doing a few KM/h, and are able to balance well enough, though that still wouldn't explain why it takes just as long to hop in one direction than another, as the Earths spinning should facilitate a faster hoping speed when going the opposite way to it's spin? Maybe it's all gravity, but that's based on an apple falling on someones head, and even with gravity, a spin that fast should show some anomalies? Not just be completely normal because of a constant force like gravity?

[Iklwa]

I tried, I read the responses, I thought long and hard about it, but no! it doesn't work. I thought "it's like being in car tyre, the air in the tyre spins at the same speed as the wheel", but we'd fly off, how can gravity exactly counteract the spinning forces that are so huge?

Maybe Im wrong, but it's like you are all some sort of brainwashed mass out to try and convince me (us?) that Im/we are wrong, like the computer guy in the Matrix "sure, this is the real world, and it spins really fast and a giant ball of gas in the sky doesn't just explode in one giant explosion because, well, it doesnt, and the gravity makes us stick to something doing over 1000KM/h, yet we don't feel any consequence of this whatsoever". You guys, whatever and whoever you are, you wont change my mind, you wont silence me, I am the start of the non spinning world revolution, and I will free others, and together we'll overthrow this ridiculous train of thought.

[Iklwa]

I thought of something else, balance. Not our balance, but the balance of this giant ball spinning round and round.

So you have millions of tons of water on one side, land weighing less on the other, perhaps a heavy mountain range perched in another, yet when you spin the ball at over a thousand kilometres per hour, it somehow doesn't start getting a massive wobble on, even though it spins around an axis?

So using the wheel example again, you take a wheel with different weight spread around it, spin it at high speed, and you'd expect it to wobble and eventually tear itself off the axle, yet we spin perfectly smoothly despite there being no actual weight balance at all?

Yeah right.