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Tomorrow's Problems

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • EABOD25@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The unit you are looking for is km/h. Both capitalisation and multiplication (division) matter with units.

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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You haven’t heard about the new unit kilometerhours? The conversion is a simple formula. X = KMH, Y = km/h

        (((x2)+5)-(5+(2x)))+x=y

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      • EABOD25@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But you understood what I said right?

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      to be honest there wouldn’t be many living special still alive for it to be a problem for

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”.

    -Phil Connors

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Really sums up small town life.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • alkheemist@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It could be tidally locked to the sun too. Then days would truly cease to exist, you’d just have a hot side and a cold side.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is “the earth has stopped rotating”, not “the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year”.

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating

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    • Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      365x24=8760

      Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week

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    • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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    • Umbrias@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.

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    • mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year

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  • demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.

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    • min@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They didn’t say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.

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      • demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Touché!

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    • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But did all the objects on earth also lose their momentum? Otherwise they would be already made into paste before the waves

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      • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it was magic and kinda just…slowed down to stop. Like a cartoon or a comic logic then yea that could work.

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  • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wheatley would probably approve

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      • AsudoxDev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.

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  • brezel@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    obligatory xkcd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5G1QG6cXc

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now on the big screen!

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    • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      what if? [sic]?

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