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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.

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Shialac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Only if the rotation would stop immediately. A slow deceleration would not let that happen

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- hiddengoat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But who cares about the obviously much more boring option?
  
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rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean, people have survived all kinds of crazy shit, I’m confident that many would actually somehow survive.

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- hiddengoat@kbin.social ⁨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.
  
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- seasick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  At least anyone in space at that time
  
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  - TheInsane42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?
    
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    seasick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think they would be going on with their business because gravity would be still the same. IANAP
    
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Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Can I volunteer to be one of the things shot eastward at 0 mph?

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