Comment on What impact would reversing the Earth's rotation have?
qooqie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 8 months ago
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.
Shialac@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Only if the rotation would stop immediately. A slow deceleration would not let that happen
hiddengoat@kbin.social 8 months ago
But who cares about the obviously much more boring option?
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
I mean, people have survived all kinds of crazy shit, I’m confident that many would actually somehow survive.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 8 months 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.
seasick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
At least anyone in space at that time
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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?
Burninator05@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can I volunteer to be one of the things shot eastward at 0 mph?