If The Earth Stood Still

Really neat ideas here:

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html

Found via BoingBoing

cool article. he forgot the having no gravity part, though. there'd be nothing to hold the oceans, let alone us and the atmosphere.

i was waiting for him to go in to how it would stop, or if it were a gradual slow down. the oceans would move around in that situation, but if it just stopped we'd all fly out in to the cosmos at 26,000 mph or so.

there would still be gravity

i'm still recovering from last time

I'm surprised I haven't seen this on ATS...oh wait, I forgot they don't like science unless it involves reptilians or conspiracy.

  On 7/28/2010 at 7:27 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

there would still be gravity

yea, i guess that's true. i keep thinking gravity is from rotation like the space station in 2001.

when superman tried stopping the earth and rotating it backwards he caused TIME to run backwards. so that's obviously what would happen.

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  On 7/28/2010 at 10:47 PM, troon said:

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lol's

everythang would fly off the earph on the strengph G!

do you think you could "scratch" with the earth? a bit like when eddie murphy does that thing in that eastern temple in goldenchild.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBereoyktJY

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  On 7/28/2010 at 7:27 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

there would still be gravity

a million percent this. but if the earth stopped rotating, we'd all be wrecked.

so if the earth stopped rotating, like, really, really suddenly... would everything go flying eastward?

inquiring minds want to know

I think so. I'd imagine huge chunks of the earth's crust would dislodge and enter orbit. Unless the force that stopped the earth from spinning wasn't god's hand pinching a marble but more like some kind of temporary change of physics which would stop every subatomic particle at exactly the same time in the same way, then we wouldn't immediately notice the drastic velocity change. basically if everything in earths vicinity lost inertia for a split second.

The speed of rotation varies between the poles and the equator.

LolLiquidMantleandOuterCorewouldkeepspinning.

There would also be 6 months of daylight leading into 6 months of darkness, now that would be fucked up.

  On 7/29/2010 at 2:13 PM, feltcher said:

There would also be 6 months of daylight leading into 6 months of darkness, now that would be fucked up.

That's how it is up North...

  On 7/29/2010 at 12:12 PM, psn said:

The speed of rotation varies between the poles and the equator.

it takes an infinite time for the North Pole to spin around Earth's axis

  On 7/31/2010 at 12:48 AM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

  On 7/29/2010 at 12:12 PM, psn said:

The speed of rotation varies between the poles and the equator.

it takes an infinite time for the North Pole to spin around Earth's axis

Depends which pole you're talking about. There's the magnetic pole and the actual pole.

Thanks, Earth, for wobbling.

  On 7/31/2010 at 1:02 AM, Xyrofen said:

  On 7/31/2010 at 12:48 AM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

  On 7/29/2010 at 12:12 PM, psn said:

The speed of rotation varies between the poles and the equator.

it takes an infinite time for the North Pole to spin around Earth's axis

 

Depends which pole you're talking about. There's the magnetic pole and the actual pole.

 

Thanks, Earth, for wobbling.

I'm clearly talking about the southern north pole

edit: added clearly for clarity

  On 7/29/2010 at 4:08 PM, Joy Rex said:

  On 7/29/2010 at 2:13 PM, feltcher said:

There would also be 6 months of daylight leading into 6 months of darkness, now that would be fucked up.

 

That's how it is up North...

Well yes, but if this were to happen the rest of us would experience it too.