Joyrex Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Really neat ideas here: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html Found via BoingBoing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 there would still be gravity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 i'm still recovering from last time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drahken Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 there would still be gravity yea, i guess that's true. i keep thinking gravity is from rotation like the space station in 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 when superman tried stopping the earth and rotating it backwards he caused TIME to run backwards. so that's obviously what would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 BoingBoing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 BoingBoing? boingboing.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 lol's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 everythang would fly off the earph on the strengph G! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 do you think you could "scratch" with the earth? a bit like when eddie murphy does that thing in that eastern temple in goldenchild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Billov Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBereoyktJY RTÉ mothafuckaz Radió Telefís na hÉireann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigs Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 there would still be gravity a million percent this. but if the earth stopped rotating, we'd all be wrecked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 so if the earth stopped rotating, like, really, really suddenly... would everything go flying eastward? inquiring minds want to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggs Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 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 RTÉ mothafuckaz Radió Telefís na hÉireann lol fuckers. spit bud light all over my keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 The speed of rotation varies between the poles and the equator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrofen Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 LolLiquidMantleandOuterCorewouldkeepspinning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 There would also be 6 months of daylight leading into 6 months of darkness, now that would be fucked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Super lurker ultra V12 Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrofen Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Super lurker ultra V12 Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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