Hello, FE'ers, RE'ers, and noobs alike. After taking some holidays, and thus mathematically proving by 3rd time that Portugal sucks, I came back to the mightiest forah on the net: THE FES!
Back to topic, now with my legendary paint skills:
Quote from: Jingle Jangle on September 26, 2013, 04:59:48 PM ----
The earth does not even rotate. The centrifugal forces which should be present with that kind of rotation are not there. Object do not weigh 2 times less at the equator. Once again, the earth does not rotate at 1000 mph. No centrifugal forces felt = load of baloney.
Yep, but that centrifugal force affects earth as well in RE, thus making gravitatorial force stronger at the equator, thus compensating (partially) for the centrifugal force:

a balloon stands as yet another horrible example. A balloon comes with rubber walls. The alleged atmosphere of round earth possesses no such boundaries. Gravity does not hold the power to hold that much air down. Even you said that some air is lost. Gravity does not behave like latex.
To be fair, air is lost mostly due to external forces, like solar wind. This only happens above the thermosphere, in which, acording to RE, the ISS can orbit, due to the minimal influence of friction at that level. Still, the ISS has to do some reorbit maneuvers using the resupply modules. And, as you may know, gravity is about 89% strong at the ISS, compared with 1 G. Strong enough to keep things down.
Fun Wikipedia fact: The temperature of the thermosphere can rise to 1,500 °C (2,700 °F), though the gas molecules are so far apart that temperature in the usual sense is not well defined.