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That's cuz the centrifugal force has no (bothersome) "horizontal" component at the equator.
-----Original Message----- From: A. John Mallinckrodt
Now let's consider a different case, namely a rigid, strictly
spherical, spinning earth. You can't ask what happens to a
table floating in a lake, because there can't be any lakes.
Nitpick (without significant consequence, but interesting to consider): Technically, you actually can have a "lake" encircling the globe about the equator.
John Mallinckrodt