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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah, the biggest effect would be in every single thing at or above ground level being instantly shot eastward at somewhere between 0 and 1,000 miles per hour. After that the weather is pretty much irrelevant because anything that would experience it would be dead as shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if the rotation would stop immediately. A slow deceleration would not let that happen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But who cares about the obviously much more boring option?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, people have survived all kinds of crazy shit, I'm confident that many would actually somehow survive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, sure, there will be some people on the lower end of that 0-1,000 MPH curve that are not in very close vicinity to any objects to splort against. Inupiat, Aleut, Sami, Yamalo-Nenets... anyone inside the arctic circle should be relatively fine, speed-wise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least anyone in space at that time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think they would be going on with their business because gravity would be still the same. IANAP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can I volunteer to be one of the things shot eastward at 0 mph?