We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.
We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.
I can’t say this with any authority, but I think the biggest effect would be in weather patterns and the subsequent downstream effects of having different weather.
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Only if the rotation would stop immediately. A slow deceleration would not let that happen
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I mean, people have survived all kinds of crazy shit, I’m confident that many would actually somehow survive.
At least anyone in space at that time
Ehm, good one… what would happen to all satellites and ISS? Would all that junk still spin in the same orbit or would it be flung out into space?
I think they would be going on with their business because gravity would be still the same. IANAP
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Can I volunteer to be one of the things shot eastward at 0 mph?