“What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”.
-Phil Connors
Tomorrow's Problems
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Really sums up small town life.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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.
alkheemist@aussie.zone 2 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.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 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”.
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
365x24=8760
Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 2 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
Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 months ago
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
min@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
They didn’t say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Touché!
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But did all the objects on earth also lose their momentum? Otherwise they would be already made into paste before the waves
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 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.
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Wheatley would probably approve
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.
brezel@piefed.social 2 months ago
obligatory xkcd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5G1QG6cXc
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Now on the big screen!
rain_worl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
what if? [sic]?
EABOD25@lemm.ee 2 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
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The unit you are looking for is km/h. Both capitalisation and multiplication (division) matter with units.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You haven’t heard about the new unit kilometerhours? The conversion is a simple formula. X = KMH, Y = km/h
EABOD25@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But you understood what I said right?
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
to be honest there wouldn’t be many living special still alive for it to be a problem for