If the earth revolves completely around its axis in 24 hours then if one was to HOVER for...?

The Earth is spinning at relative speed, and we are rotating along with itand so is the atmosphere and everything around us. Only if you were hovering at extremely high altitude would the earth start to move out from under you.

Let me use a bird as an explanation:

If a migrating bird [which are in flight for days] was flying west it would have to fly really fast to compensate for the earths rotation. And a bird that was travelling north or south would have to compensate.

An interesting question

When you hover you stay in the same place so you would be where you started out after 12 hours. Watch a hawk or hummingbird hover and note that they stay in the same place, with a lot of effort though. The same applies to helicopters or Harrier jets. Gravity and the movement of the earth have to be counteracted.

As for ending up in China after twelve hours, if your supposition could be made to work, it would all depend on your starting point. To stay in the same place and yet to travel is an interesting proposition.

It depends on what you mean by "hover". If you mean staying stationary relative to the sun (the earth would be moving past you under your feet), then yes, the earth would rotate halfway around in 12 hours and you would end up on the opposite side of the earth at the same latitude north or south of the equator where you started. You wouldn't necessarily end up in China, but I get your point.

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No. you may hover but you are still moving at approx, 1000 miles an hour and the earth takes 23hours and about 50 something minutes to rotate and the earth is about 24,000 miles around the equator that's why we have a leap year to make up the difference

you can get all the info from NASA.

Technically, yes. But hovering in one spot is impossible because everything is moving with the rotating Earth, including the Earth's atmosphere.

Hovering requires stationary flight in the atmosphere. the atmosphere moves with the Earth or we would have a constant 1000 mph wind. You would just land near your starting point. Now if you went in to outer space and stood stationary to the sun's position, then landed 12 hours later, you would be 12,500 miles from your starting point.

(people are just acting silly, over analyzing the definition of hover and/or its physics)

I'll accept hovering as you are floating in space above the planet in a space suit, and happy as a bug in a rug.

So, destination China huh? 12 hours?

answer = yes and no. depends on your starting position. (remember we have people from all over the world here in YA)

looks like if you where in the east coast time zone or the central time zone in the usa, when you started floating, you WOULD end up in china

mountain time would mostly put you in india (includes a tiny bit of china to the north)

and the pacific time zone would put you the middle east for the most part.

how the heck do we figure this all out?

world time zones http://www.logisticsworld.com/images/wtzs.gif

us time zones http://cctnic.com/us-time-zone-map.gif

where is china? http://www.timetemperature.com/asia/china.gif

Mercury should get the points. He is correct, all others are over reacting and defining the question.

The asker defines everything IF IT WERE POSSIBLE.

Obviously we cant hover but it is given IF IT WERE POSSIBLE.

Give Mercury the 10 points

id have to say no, helicopters hover, but they don't move, they hover in one spot