Submitted 1 year 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.
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
365x24=8760
Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
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
“What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”.
-Phil Connors
Really sums up small town life.
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
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.
They didn’t say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.
Touché!
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml [bot] 1 year ago
I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year ago
Wheatley would probably approve
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.