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Re:Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 ... by blueflow on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:32AM (#40376576)
It doesn't.
Re:Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 ... by Euphorbium on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:43AM (#40376624)
Eventually we will have to compensate for gallactic rotation.
Re:Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 ... by viraptor on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:50AM (#40376657)
I never thought of that one. It's fun to think "we know the whole universe isn't spinning very fast, because our gyros are stable". Feels both obvious and somehow bigger-than-life to me.
Re:Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 ... by zamalek on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:57AM (#40376684)
We are not kinetically bound to the galactic center, there is no friction causing earth to remain "upright" in respect to the galaxy. Earth is also a freely rotating inertial body and, even though wobbly, it is itself a gyroscope.

The next level of stabilization would probably be gravitational waves.

Re:Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 ... by jerich on Thursday May 16, 2024 @02:07PM (#40381382)
Anyone who’s read the short story “The Billiard Ball” by Asimov would have taken it into account.