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to do with the force of gravity keeping us on the ground.
Yikes! I sincerely hope that the person you are addressing was joking. I hope. Please?
I realize that some people do have this misconception (about gravity being related to the Earth's rotation), but I figured it was typically the very old (not good education) or sometimes the very young (not much education yet). That an adult in our western civilization (even a business major or artsy type) actually thinks this makes me sad. So I hope it was just a joke or misunderstanding of the "because we all would have gone flying off into space" statement.
Besides, everyone knows we stay on the ground because the Earth's core is a big magnet.