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Why don't we feel the Earth spinning?

The Earth is whirling you around at over 1,600 kilometres per hour at the equator โ€” faster than a jet plane. So why don't we feel the faintest breeze of it, or get flung off? Why does the ground feel perfectly still?

Long-exposure star trails circling the sky, caused by Earth's rotation
Photo: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA ยท CC BY 4.0 ยท via Wikimedia Commons

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