>>11291831I'm not a physicist but I assume you're trolling.
If you're travelling in a car and you drop something out the window, that thing is not going to ACCELERATE after you dropped it - apart from the acceleration provided by gravity, which I already mentioned. Gravity provides acceleration, but dropping something while you're travelling very fast is not going to provide acceleration to that object, because there is no continuous force acting upon it (apart from gravity like I said).
In fact, if you dropped something out of the window of an airplane let's say, and let's say for a second there was no gravity, that object would DECELERATE due to air resistance.
Also, thinking about it more. If the flat Earther was right and the movement of the Earth disc caused dropped items to move towards the ground, surely the only thing that could cause that movement to happen would be air resistance? In which case, we would always be feeling a rush of air coming from above us, as our disc moves through space.
Because if you are travelling in a fast-moving car, and you drop something out of the window, the reason that object doesn't continue at the speed you were going at is because of air resistance, right? Whereas if you had a satellite in space, where there's no air, and part of that satellite separated off, that part would still maintain the velocity that the whole satellite had before, right? Modified by any forces exerted upon it by the separation from the main satellite.
