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[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago

The unit you are looking for is km/h. Both capitalisation and multiplication (division) matter with units.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You haven't heard about the new unit kilometerhours? The conversion is a simple formula. X = KMH, Y = km/h

(((x2)+5)-(5+(2x)))+x=y

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But you understood what I said right?

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

I think KPH is the preferred acronym. km/h is the proper unit of course.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago

(you're in science memes, you can expect to get corrected for incorrect symbols)

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

Cool. So you get it.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”

-Phil Connors

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Really sums up small town life.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 year ago

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 25 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating

[-] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

365x24=8760

Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

you've got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 44 points 1 year ago

Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.

[-] min@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

They didn't say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 1 year ago
[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 40 points 1 year ago

I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Wheatley would probably approve

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.

[-] brezel@piefed.social 31 points 1 year ago
[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Now on the big screen!

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

what if? [sic]?

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