Its dumb and not relative to anything...

LOL!!! I'm sure you meant relevant but this was the most unintentionally ironic comment I've seen yet!

No matter how much you pretend otherwise, a helicopter can hover over a ~1000 mph earth for the same reason a toy drone can hover over a ~500 mph plane. And a plane's east and west flight times over a ~1000 mph earth are the same for the same reason the flight times are the same for flying an RC aircraft from front to back or back to front over a ~500 mph aircraft.

calls it a pear...

I can't believe this is still happening. Again, NDT is a celebrity who makes pop science content for the average idiot. If you are appealing to stupid shit he says in his interviews, you are literally discrediting yourself. No geodesy book would say "the earth is a pear" because that is retarded.

I disagree with NDT's methods, but he said what he said because the average idiot is too stupid to understand what an octopole is. The "pearness" of the earth is about 7/1000000 the average radius. It isn't a pear.

Its dumb and not relative to anything...

LOL!!! I'm sure you meant relevant but this was the most unintentionally ironic comment I've seen yet!

No matter how much you pretend otherwise, a helicopter can hover over a ~1000 mph earth for the same reason a drone can hover over a ~500 mph plane. And a plane's east and west flight times over a ~1000 mph earth are the same for the same reason the flight times are the same for flying an RC aircraft from front to back or back to front over a ~500 mph aircraft.

calls it a pear...

I can't believe this is still happening. Again, NDT is a celebrity who makes pop science content for the average idiot. If you are appealing to stupid shit he says in his interviews, you are literally discrediting yourself. No geodesy book would say "the earth is a pear" because that is retarded.

I disagree with NDT's methods, but he said what he said because the average idiot is too stupid to understand what an octopole is. The "pearness" of the earth is about 7/1000000 the average radius. It isn't a pear.