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NORTH POLE??? 2 questions?

if i take a gps and go to the exact north pole and drive a stake into the ground.then put one hand on the stake and run around it in a circle.am i going around the world??

2.which would be faster when going around the world..a very fast plane or space shuttle going straight up,let the earth rotate underneath,then straight down?

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  • 10 years ago
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    The North Pole is an ocean. You cannot drive a stake in an ocean unless it is frozen. And yes you would and could claim you went around the world. You could not have a rocket go straight up and remain there, it needs to be moving. A satellite make a trip around the world in about 90 minutes, and is traveling at around 18,000 miles an hour which is much faster than any plane can fly.

  • 10 years ago

    You should listen to Dave, however it would be cheaper to use an airplane, since with an airplane you would need around 1k or more, but with a satellite or space shuttle, the cost would be more like a million or much more, and just fyi, if you go to the north pole and stand there, then the next step you take, no matter if it is left, right, up or down will always be south, and finally, the fastest way to go around the world is going to the north pole and run in a circle.

  • 4 years ago

    good day adult males i'd desire to indicate out that the north pole isn't a stripped ballot with chilly willie working around it. there's no stable land mass there and the sea ice is in consistent action. that pronounced the ice on the north pole is a distinctive age at any distinctive 2d. sea ice is comparatively youthful via fact because it strikes some melts seasonally, in basic terms to be added to next season. then some melts and extra freezes. it incredibly is attainable that there is a small little bit of ice this is 1000's of 1000's of years previous. regardless of the undeniable fact that it won't bypass over the pole till next Tuesday. No it incredibly is not 1000's of feet thick. the thick ice is latest in glaciated parts of Greenland and such. right here the ice could be a mile deep and date decrease back 200k+ years. sure this is actual earlier the medieval heat era. Heck i think of that's older than Lucy ( the earliest human predecessor)the protection and protection of being on land secure it from stepping into aspects the place would have in any different case melted like sea ice. it incredibly is this circulate that retains the sea ice quite skinny. regrettably it incredibly is vanishing quicker each 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and there has by no potential been a time in the history of guy that there replace into no ice cap. Antartica has additionally, been frozen longer than Greenland's Ecuador Pete, how are you able to indicate thermodynamics and Jesus in the comparable paragraph. tom it incredibly is many times widely used that the ice age replace into no longer the reason of the dinosaurs loss of life Trev nailed it

  • FatGuy
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Vehicles/Satellites whatever put into space do not--CANNOT--stand still and "let the earth rotate underneath" them. There is something called a Geosynchronous orbit, which means the vehicle is orbiting at exactly the same rate as the planet rotates, thereby maintaining a seemingly unmoving position over the same point on earth. What happens more often is, the vehicle orbits faster than the planet rotates, thereby shortening the apparent "day" on the vehicle. I don't know if it is possible for the vehicle to orbit at a slower rate than planet rotates, thereby lengthening the apparent "day" on the vehicle.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    actually you couldnt do this since there is a big hole at the pole which leads into the hollow cavity within. I write all about this and explain it in my book 'A NEW FORM OF ENERGY; ITS DESCRIPTION; ITS GENERATION; AND ITS APPLICATIONS.

    Source(s): research & cosmophysics
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