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.

    • hiddengoat@kbin.social
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      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.

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        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?

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