Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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If the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer.
I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together.
I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
365x24=8760
Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap days
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
They didn’t say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.
Touché!
But did all the objects on earth also lose their momentum? Otherwise they would be already made into paste before the waves
If it was magic and kinda just…slowed down to stop. Like a cartoon or a comic logic then yea that could work.
I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo
Wheatley would probably approve
Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.
At the equator, the earth spins at 1600 KMH. Meaning everything that isn’t very well secured is turning in into a projectile. That would be a today problem
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”.
-Phil Connors
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Really sums up small town life.