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Old Sep 28, 2017 | 6:10 pm
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klausa
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Huh. I always assumed that the discrepancy between eastwards/westwards flights was due to earth rotation (which, I mean, I guess it indirectly is, since it is what is causing jetstreams in the first place), but never took a second to actually think about it. Now I realize how stupid it is — planes are obviously still very much in the atmosphere of the earth and are therefore rotating with it...
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