Earth, Rotation and Transportation

I happened to start reading about "Teleportation" today. That too from the web site of computer giant Mr.IBM! Whaaat? How come IBM happened to be concerned about Teleportation? Uh! Even I couldn't understand! They are talking some big big things like quantum computing all and I got pissed off! If you are interested, check it here.

Anyway for those are new to the word "Teleportation", here it is (as from IBM site) "Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else."

As usual, time to start the questions! Why I am talking about teleportation today? There must be a reason.

I am not going to claim that I can do teleportation. But, as usual, I could see that there is something excellent available under our nose, which is not discovered by our scientist community. Yes, when it is so close to you, it is very difficult to see that!

The claim is very simple - I can do "Transportation" from anywhere to anywhere in the earth with near zero cost! Yes, anywhere to anywhere with near zero cost! Oh, there is a small correction, it is possible only in east-west direction, not in north-south direction. Still sounds great - right?

How? How it is possible? The theory is very simple - you instead of going to the place where you want to be, let the place come to you! All what we need is a facility to raise yourself few meters up from the earth's surface, and a place where you can hold tightly keep yourself in the same place. For example, if you could hang yourself on a rope coming from some other planet, that will do!

Crazy? Relax and read this: All of us know that the earth is always rotating or spinning. To be more precious, according to Nasa, the speed of earth's rotation is approximately 1000 miles per hour. Refer here.

As we are standing on earth, we are also rotating along with earth. This happens without our knowledge or concern. Except few like me, most are unaware of this fact. However, keeping this in mind, think, what will happen if we release ourselves from earth and stand detached? Simple, the earth will keep traveling, but you will not. And if you stand detached from earth's surface for an hour and then you keep your foot down after an hour?? By that time, earth must have traveled 1000 miles and you will not! Your foot will land on a place 1000 miles away from the place where you were before! Putting in very simple language, in one hour, you have reached a place which is 1000 miles away!

Lost? But I am not! With this simple technique, you can move from city to city without traveling an inch! As I mentioned above, the city is traveling the whole distance coming to you! Just align yourself in north-south direction (this is in your own expense) so that you are parallel to the destination, clap your hands, close your eyes, catch the rope, release legs from earth.. that's all! No transportation cost, no fear of falling into holes in the road, no vehicle banth, no need of petrol, no fuel surcharge, no boarding pass, no airport usage fee, no toilet fee..... all at the same speed of an international flight!

The potential of this technique is enormous. Not just for passenger commutation, it can use extensively for cargo movement. We can reduce the cost of living as there is near zero transportation cost. Also this encourages the free trade movements in the globe!

The final question used to be from me - this time also no change. Let me ask - "Don't you agree???"