Bullets can’t course-correct mid-flight by burning fuel dude. That’s what most of your “problems” reduce to: burning fuel to overcome naturally present forces
When the ballon takes off it has that X-component already present in its velocity. Just think about what you’re saying dude.... you are saying that if you shoot a gun to the East, it will behave totally differently than if you shoot it to the West. Does that line up with your experiences?
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Are you seriously suggesting that insects don’t “burn” their equivalent of “fuel”? Have you heard of this thing called “chemical potential energy”?
Well... you’re saying that “the official story” implies that the gun would function differently depending on the direction it’s fired, which is the thing I’m trying to address. But fair point about your actual belief being that the system isn’t rotating.
why would the momentum continue if the balloon is no longer attached to the spinning object
What’s going to stop it? A teensy bit of resistance from the wind? The wind that gets thinner and thinner the higher up you get? And anyway, hot air. An object in motion will stay in motion unless an opposing force acts on it, and I’m not seeing the source of the force which would counteract the balloons natural x-component of its velocity in your example.
Bullets can’t course-correct mid-flight by burning fuel dude. That’s what most of your “problems” reduce to: burning fuel to overcome naturally present forces
how much fuel does a hot air balloon need to burn to counteract a 1600km/h spin?
or a bird
or an insect
When the ballon takes off it has that X-component already present in its velocity. Just think about what you’re saying dude.... you are saying that if you shoot a gun to the East, it will behave totally differently than if you shoot it to the West. Does that line up with your experiences?
Edit4yourEdit:
Are you seriously suggesting that insects don’t “burn” their equivalent of “fuel”? Have you heard of this thing called “chemical potential energy”?
Did you miss the part about 1,600 km/h
Did you miss the part where the atmosphere rotates with the earth?
It’s called a fluid boundary layer, look into it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_layer
no im saying that it won't matter because there is no spin
that x component rapidly diminishes as soon as the hot air balloon leaves the ground
why would the momentum continue if the balloon is no longer attached to the spinning object
Well... you’re saying that “the official story” implies that the gun would function differently depending on the direction it’s fired, which is the thing I’m trying to address. But fair point about your actual belief being that the system isn’t rotating.
What’s going to stop it? A teensy bit of resistance from the wind? The wind that gets thinner and thinner the higher up you get? And anyway, hot air. An object in motion will stay in motion unless an opposing force acts on it, and I’m not seeing the source of the force which would counteract the balloons natural x-component of its velocity in your example.