Micro-gravity in Ecuador (was 8,000 miles is below the GEO altitude)

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> We'll call it micro-gravity

It doesn't matter what you call it. You're still wrong. One can't experience micro-gravity on Earth at the top of an 8,000 mile high building, or anywhere in-between there and sea-level, because 8,000 miles is below the GEO altitude of 22,236 miles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit

"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."

> but as far as the Human organism is concerned, the subjective experience is weightlessness.

It would be, at the top of a 22,236-mile-high building on the equator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit

"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."

However, we were talking about the top of a building only 8,000 miles above sea level.

> So what's your beef with weightlessness?

Why don't people experience weightlessness at the top of the Volcn Cayambe (summit 5,790 meters (18,996 ft; 3.6 miles)) in Ecuador, very near the equator? Could it be that even that elevation isn't high enough -- and that the elevation actually necessary is 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit

"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."