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Okay, we are going to talk for a minute about the coriolis effect.
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And the coriolis effect describes the pattern of deflection taken by objects that are not connected to the earth when they travel long distances.
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So this is my spherical earth, and this is the axis that the earth is going to rotate on.
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Now, that's really important because the key to the coriolis effect lies in the earth's rotation.
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The earth is rotating from west to east, and because it is a spherical shape here, it is wider in the middle than it is at the poles.
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So if you are traveling along the equator, you're going to be moving much faster, rotating much faster than you are if you are at the north or south pole.
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If you wanted to, let's say, throw a ball to your friend, at the north pole, unfortunately, that ball would never make it there.
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Not because you are not a superhero and can throw that far, but because of the earth's spin, that ball is going to deflect to the right...