Tyranthraxus posted...
Imagine you're spinning a plate on your finger. Now imagine you're spinning like dozens of plates that are spinning on sticks stacked on top of spinning plates that are stacked on top of a plate that you're spinning on your finger.
Now I walk over to you and push you a few inches. What happens to the plates?
I see what you're saying but there must be like a perfect angle and amount of force that would do it for us. Taking the spin of the earth and such into consideration. If we can use math to basically blind shoot a rocket into the surface of a moon millions of miles away why can't we figure that out?
still ELI5 I am being half serious tho