We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 年前

    I can’t say this with any authority, but I think the biggest effect would be in weather patterns and the subsequent downstream effects of having different weather.

    • hiddengoat@kbin.social
      32·
      2 年前

      Nah, the biggest effect would be in every single thing at or above ground level being instantly shot eastward at somewhere between 0 and 1,000 miles per hour. After that the weather is pretty much irrelevant because anything that would experience it would be dead as shit.

      • Rikudou_SageA
        2·
        2 年前

        I mean, people have survived all kinds of crazy shit, I’m confident that many would actually somehow survive.

        • hiddengoat@kbin.social
          1·
          2 年前

          I mean, sure, there will be some people on the lower end of that 0-1,000 MPH curve that are not in very close vicinity to any objects to splort against. Inupiat, Aleut, Sami, Yamalo-Nenets… anyone inside the arctic circle should be relatively fine, speed-wise.

          • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 年前

            Ehm, good one… what would happen to all satellites and ISS? Would all that junk still spin in the same orbit or would it be flung out into space?

            • seasick@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 年前

              I think they would be going on with their business because gravity would be still the same. IANAP