| If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245389] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 16:08  |
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Would we all go flying into the wall? 
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| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245390 is a reply to message #245389] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 16:24  |
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According to my Astronomy teacher, in theory, yes. Not like you would feel it though, you would be thrown at unimaginable speeds.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245395 is a reply to message #245389] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 17:18 |
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What if you had padded walls? Like in mental hospitals LOL!
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| Crimson wrote on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:22 |
| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245397 is a reply to message #245395] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 17:37 |
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| Viking wrote on Thu, 15 February 2007 18:18 |
What if you had padded walls? Like in mental hospitals LOL!
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If you stood up against a padded wall and the Earth stopped spinning, the g-force alone would probably splatter you all over the wall.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245408 is a reply to message #245389] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 20:09 |
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YOU FLY APART!!! WEEEE! 
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| Crimson wrote on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:22 |
| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245419 is a reply to message #245409] |
Thu, 15 February 2007 23:25 |
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I'm no science expert but I don't believe the hypothetical situation of the Earth suddenly ceasing to spin would actually make us go flying anywhere as a direct result. It's the Earth's gravity keeping us rooted down, not the Earth's spinning motion, and its gravity is due to the Earth's mass and our proximity to it, not its spinning motion.
I could be completely wrong.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245436 is a reply to message #245426] |
Fri, 16 February 2007 02:19 |
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| vloktboky wrote on Fri, 16 February 2007 15:18 |
You won't hit any walls and you won't stay put. You won't exist anymore. Whatever forces were at play that were the direct cause of the Earth reversing its rotation would make certain of that.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245437 is a reply to message #245407] |
Fri, 16 February 2007 02:20 |
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| icedog90 wrote on Thu, 15 February 2007 20:55 |
What happens if you spin incredibly fast? I kind of always wondered and have never bothered to look it up.
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That depends, are we talking centrifugal, or fixed spinning?
1: If you were being held by your feet and being spun faster and faster, you'd rip apart and be hollowed-out.
2: If you were standing on the center plate of a merry-go-round, you would eventually skid further and further to one side (remember entropy) until you left the axis and flew off in a random direction.
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| Re: If the earth stopped spinning suddenly... [message #245463 is a reply to message #245419] |
Fri, 16 February 2007 07:42 |
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| MaidenTy1 wrote on Fri, 16 February 2007 02:25 |
I'm no science expert but I don't believe the hypothetical situation of the Earth suddenly ceasing to spin would actually make us go flying anywhere as a direct result. It's the Earth's gravity keeping us rooted down, not the Earth's spinning motion, and its gravity is due to the Earth's mass and our proximity to it, not its spinning motion.
I could be completely wrong.
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I didn't think he was saying that the Earth's spin was causing gravity, because it doesn't. He could have been though, I'm not sure. But how I interpreted it was he wanted to know what would happen if just the earth's spinning suddenly came to a halt. Meaning that our velocity relative to the earth's would suddenly become <= 1600km/h. That would send you flying in the direction the earth was spinning.
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