At the equator, the earth spins at 1600 km/h. Meaning everything that isn't very well secured is turning into a projectile. That would be a today problem
It could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is "the earth has stopped rotating", not "the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year".
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EABOD25@lemm.ee · 74 pts · 1y
At the equator, the earth spins at 1600 km/h. Meaning everything that isn't very well secured is turning into a projectile. That would be a today problem
Eheran@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
The unit you are looking for is km/h. Both capitalisation and multiplication (division) matter with units.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
You haven't heard about the new unit kilometerhours? The conversion is a simple formula. X = KMH, Y = km/h
EABOD25@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
But you understood what I said right?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
I think KPH is the preferred acronym. km/h is the proper unit of course.
EABOD25@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
Thank you. I live in the US, so I tried to express speed in a relatively same sense. I'll change it
psud@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 1y
(you're in science memes, you can expect to get corrected for incorrect symbols)
Eheran@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Correct, because the context gave it away, the same way I Can w_rte like dis aN,d YoU wl undrstmd me.
EABOD25@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
Cool. So you get it.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 1y
“What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”
-Phil Connors
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Really sums up small town life.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 51 pts · 1y
If the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer.
I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I'm hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together.
I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he'd know what to do.
alkheemist@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 1y
It could be tidally locked to the sun too. Then days would truly cease to exist, you'd just have a hot side and a cold side.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
It could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is "the earth has stopped rotating", not "the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year".
rockerface@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
365x24=8760
Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it's the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap years
mipadaitu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year
demesisx@infosec.pub · 43 pts · 1y
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
min@lemmy.sdf.org · 32 pts · 1y
They didn't say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.
demesisx@infosec.pub · 22 pts · 1y
Touché!
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
But did all the objects on earth also lose their momentum? Otherwise they would be already made into paste before the waves
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
If it was magic and kinda just....slowed down to stop. Like a cartoon or a comic logic then yea that could work.
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 1y
I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo
ICastFist@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y
Wheatley would probably approve
AsudoxDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.
brezel@piefed.social · 27 pts · 1y
obligatory xkcd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5G1QG6cXc
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Now on the big screen!
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
what if? [sic]?