Or he might be a pilot. Pilots have to constantly adjust for the curvature of the Earth.
Because radio waves travel at the speed of light? Why couldn't he do it?
"Light travels through space at just over
186,000 miles per second. The moon is just under
250,000 miles from Earth, so light from the Moon's surface has to travel more than one second (
about 1.3 seconds) to reach us."
They do. Very slowly.
The Sun rotates too right? The moon for example is rotationally bound with the earth so we always see the same side. Not sure I understand the issue here
You can do that in space - if you are far enough from gravitational effects. That's like asking when someone being driven in a car cannot stop being moved by the car. The answer is the car takes the person along with them so they cannot. You somehow think that the atmosphere is different to a solid object (the car seat) in its effects rather than just the magnitude of its effects.
If the atmosphere did not form a barrier we would not be so limited in terms of the speed we could achieve within it.
Because they don't stretch from the equator to the north pole? The speed differential over a few km or so is nothing.
International Space Station