Submitted 10 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
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For decades I’ve been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.
We should all start spinning counterclockwise in the north and clockwise in the south to affect the planet’s rotation and create a massive westward tidal wave that will finally take care of Florida.
Florida will take care of its self with how things are going.
It’s so adorable when they grow up and can take care of themselves
Ultimatelly it depends on the distribution of the Human population all over the World.
It’s fine to not to offset your rotations at the end of the day if there are people on the other side of the World in average rotating about the same as you do and who thus offset you rotations with their own.
New reason for us to have a keep-left policy on our roads while yanks have a keep-right policy on theirs…
Fuck, I thought I was the only one.
That’s why you should only go to those larger merry-go-rounds where everything rotates in one direction and your immediate region rotates on the other.
This guy: keeps records and spends extra time.
Me: Goes back home.
Just have to be sure to use the same doors so the string/worldline doesn’t get caught.
Yeah, but if you get spun around inside a room you still have problems
If you are doing that by car, then the cloverleaf will add to your spin, not cancel it out.
Three rights make a left. It’s entirely possible to have an unbalanced ratio of left to right rotations in a day
Triangular grid guy: "Guess I'm going back the way I came."
Hexagonal grid guy: "What is left. What is right. This did nothing! Nothing!"
Guy on Penrose tiling: "Get me out of here!"
(In before: "You have the first two the wrong way around." Not if they're walking the edges.)
explainexplainxkcd exists?
Saturated reaction wheels are a big problem
If every human on the planet just started running in the same direction, could we collectively affect the rotation of the planet? 🤔
Yes, we would affect the Earth’s rotation. It’s just by a ridiculously small amount that nobody would ever be able to measure.
Now I am wondering how many humans would it take?
Hm. You should try doing it weekly instead and you probably get fewer spins.
Unless you don't commute the same way both ways or always go around the office in the same direction, you'd get very dizzy then.
seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 10 months ago
Don’t show this to anyone with OCD.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have OCD, occasionally counterspin to reverse one I’ve done but only single spins. This would drive me crazy lol
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t have OCD but I definitely have this spinning thing. The worst thing is when you’re unsure if you are short a spin or not, it’s like having a sneeze stuck that won’t come out
null@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
And you’re certain you don’t have OCD…?