The Speed Special 2014: Tests, Drives, and Comparisons of the World’s Fastest Cars!
On Earth, if you live in the midlatitudes, Earth’s rotation is carrying you and the atmosphere you breathe sideways—due east—at about 800 mph. If you’re an equator dweller, that speed is 1000 mph. Santa, on the North Pole, has no sideways motion at all. His cottage simply pirouettes once per day. Problem is, our planet […]
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