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The Focault pendulum is one example
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where you can see that the Earth is rotating around its own axis.
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Then, the fact that the Earth is going around the Sun.
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All of them mean it's really not inertial,
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but it's approximately inertial.
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But if you go to outer space nowadays,
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you can find truly inertial frames of reference.
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That's the first law.
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The first law, if you want to say,
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"What's the summary of all of this?"
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The summary is that constant velocity doesn't require anything.
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The reason it looks like a tautology,