What if the Earth stopped spinning?

[Tidus1456]

udsuna what do u do download the entire internet into ur brain u frigin smart ass lol

[-N-]

lol udsuna srsly

[T-MaN]

I was just looking around some website about this, and this is what one site I found which had an interesting outlook of it all.

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/q1168.html

[Ko Ko]

We'd all float away.

[Madame Adequate]

Humanity's too stubbourn to just roll over and die because of a little thing like it being totally impossible to survive.

Actually, you're probably right.... human beings find a way to do everything else. Defying the odds is what we're good at. Although we still can't build underwater cities... when THAT happens, we stand a fighting chance.

I didn't think of that at all, but you're right. Even a land-based self-contained city would stand a chance, although it'd have to have excellent heat resistence. But as with most disasters, the best thing to do is colonise more than one planet. Even if Earth gets smacked up by a meteor/volcano/giant space pie, people on Mars could survive.

There's another possibility... if the Earth stopped rotating, it could end up kind of like our moon, with the same side facing its center of rotation constantly

Nope... the reason the moon stays facing us the same way is because its "rotation" is the same rate as its "revolution". If those two are equal, you get the object always facing the same direction in relation to the other body. But a true, non-spinning, body sits with the same face in relation to the "absolute" universe. In fact, our moon actually spins *FASTER* than the earth does. It just orbits much faster around us than we do around the sun.

Just to be excessively techincal for people who are not udsana, and to bolster my own ego, that is due to a process named 'tidal locking', and it is the case for many moons in our solar system with regards to their primaries (And, interestingly enough, it's also the case between Earth and Venus. This could be simple coinkidink, though.).

[Quina]

I probably wouldn't notice since it is so big.

[Mittopotahis]

I'd say we'd all go float around, since there is no gravity...and then die from something or other...like hunger or bordem or Sputnik...

[gokufusionss1]

the dark side would be smurfed
The other side would also be smurfed
We'd all be smurfed
And people in Chad wouldn't have their extra 0.03 gravity

[Madame Adequate]

I'd say we'd all go float around, since there is no gravity...and then die from something or other...like hunger or bordem or Sputnik...

Erm... why would there be no gravity? Gravity is an inherent attractive power of everything, even from the computer in front of you. It's not rotating.

Maybe I missed something in physics class, but I'm pretty certain gravity isn't too much affected by spin.

Now get flung off, yes, that's entirely possible. Float away, less so. Unless someone has severely misinformed me.

[The Anarchy Angel]

If it gradually slowed, we'd feel nothing...however if it abruptly stopepd we'd fly at around 2000mph into the nearest object and be kille dinstantly, we'd never know

[SomethingBig]

One thing's for sure: bigfoot would NOT be making any more appearances.

[Yuffie514]

stop spinning, huh? please God, can the sunny side be in America?

[Spammerman]

like -N- said, watch the core. The would would turn into a giant fireball, thats after flocks of bird crash into every freakin thing and commit suicide like those birds in wyoming.and a whole bunch of ppl would drop dead, literally.

[Peegee]

lmao that movie again. I'd watch it but I value my intellect.

[Spammerman]

yea um me too, though it doesn't affect my lvl of intellect; very very very low.