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TextWhat would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? We don't have any reason to think it will in the next few million millennia, but Witold Fraczek, an employee of geographic imaging software company ESRI, was curious. He used ArcGIS, the company's flagship software, to build a virtual model of the planet in the absence of centrifugal force. Currently, the spin of our planet (it goes 1,667 kilometers per hour at the equator) pulls the mass of water toward the equator, creating an unsightly ellipsoidal bulge, and the oceans we are familiar with. Fraczek modeled the gradual change in the planet's geography that would happen as Earth slowed to a halt. As the spin stopped, the oceans would all fall back toward the poles, drowning everything north of Chicago and south of Buenos Aires and creating two massive circumpolar oceans. Wrapped around the middle of the planet would be a single equatorial megacontinent, with giant dry valleys where the old Atlantic and Pacific used to be. The immobile planet would be a perfect, if somewhat mountainous, sphere.
I wonder how will we poo!
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by diamondsmith
This has always been one of my fears to be honest, I always assumed without rotation, we would all just *float* away. Sounds fun while it lasts though.
Maybe in case of pole shift,but just for a short period of time!
Originally posted by ManFromEurope
reply to post by diamondsmith
Why should Gravity stop working? The earth's mass is still under your feet. You would get heavier because of the absence of centrifugal forces "lifting" you right now.
Planets bound to their suns, like Mercury, are hellish hot on one side (depending on the distance to their sun, of course) and deep-frozen on the other side.
Did you know that the coldest spot in the solar system is on the sun-averted side of Mercury? Larry Niven once wrote a story about it, I think it's true.
We will hide in caves like reptilians,adapt and transform just like in that Time Machine movie!
Originally posted by 74Templar
It'd have to make you wonder how long we would survive for. No spinning would possibly mean the atmosphere would just float away, and one side would cook while the other side would be permanent icepack. Then there's the magnetosphere. I'm only guessing but without that rotation wouldn't it cease to exist? First CME from the sun and we're all deep fried, literally,,,
Originally posted by diamondsmith
We will hide in caves like reptilians,adapt and transform just kike in that Time Machine movie!
Originally posted by 74Templar
It'd have to make you wonder how long we would survive for. No spinning would possibly mean the atmosphere would just float away, and one side would cook while the other side would be permanent icepack. Then there's the magnetosphere. I'm only guessing but without that rotation wouldn't it cease to exist? First CME from the sun and we're all deep fried, literally,,,
Originally posted by jawnaw2000
My biggest worry would be the flora and fauna. Essentially, everything on the planet would have to adjust. Trees and other plant life on the night side would go extinct unless maintained artificially. There goes pretty much the entire ocean ecosystem on one side of the planet, as well. Vampires are safe.
It's and interesting discussion to be sure.
Originally posted by ManFromEurope
reply to post by diamondsmith
A pole shift doesn't work this way: Stop and roll over.. Nope, it's "just" a swap of the magnetic field direction, north pole becomes south pole and vice versa. The movement of the earth is unchanged in this process.
Originally posted by ManFromEurope
reply to post by diamondsmith
A pole shift doesn't work this way: Stop and roll over.. Nope, it's "just" a swap of the magnetic field direction, north pole becomes south pole and vice versa. The movement of the earth is unchanged in this process.
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TextCharles Hapgood is now perhaps the best remembered early proponent. In his books The Earth's Shifting Crust (1958) (which includes a foreword by Albert Einstein that was written before the theory of plate tectonics was developed)[11] and Path of the Pole (1970). Hapgood, building on Adhemar's much earlier model,[citation needed] speculated that the ice mass at one or both poles over-accumulates and destabilizes the Earth's rotational balance, causing slippage of all or much of Earth's outer crust around the Earth's core, which retains its axial orientation.
Igneous rocks contain large proportions of metal elements such as iron and manganese. This gives the rocks magnetic properties which form anomalies in the earth's natural magnetic and gravitational field.
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by diamondsmith
Lots of theories about this type of literal pole shift (flipping of crust) but absolutely no evidence in any rocks, etc anywhere in the world.
There is plenty of evidence however for a magnetic pole shift, for example rocks can show flow patterns in opposite directions within the same structure when examined under a microscope.edit on 23-11-2011 by Flavian because: (no reason given)