Biology
Surely having the ability to fly must be a benefit even with a "normal" mouth?
Physics
If your traveling round trip from say LA to NYC on an aeroplane, is the DISTANCE travelled different on one direction vs the other different depending on whether it’s in the same direction as the earths spin vs opposite direction? The actual surface distance from LA to NYC is obviously constant, but since d=s*t, does speed or time increase?
Planetary Sci.
Take Australia for example, which is said to be moving northwards at 6.9 cm (2.7 inches) per year. I appreciate that a continent is a rather large thing, but it's also moving pretty slow (as far as things moving in general are concerned anyway).
How much momentum does a continent really carry? Would energies on a humanly conceivable order of magnitude be enough to stop its northward motion?
If we attached a bunch of rocket engines to it horizontally and anchored them really well, so their power output would transfer directly to the landmass, rather than just plowing through the top layer of soil, and we then directed all globally avaible fossile fuels to powering these engines, would that make am impact on Australias continental drift?
