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Originally posted by heffer if the planet earth stopped spinning all of a sudden, wouldn't we all go like "Ahhhhh!" and get flung into the air :o
i think that could be fun.. |
If Earth Stop Spinning, the Earth will be sucked into the gravitational pull of the sun. Mind you, all life on earth will be dead long before the sun swallows the earth*.
The spinning of the Earth is what helps the Earth in it's current location. It's like a top where it sways from one side to another giving us out season of the year. How ever one of these days (most likely Billions of years from now) will stop spinning.
If you want to see an example of this, go drop a coin into one of those coin funnel that you see at the shopping center for donations.
The at the coin spins slower, it gets closer to the funnel. The same thing will happen to the Earth.
* A sudden 5% increase or descrease of distance from the sun will wipe out life on Earth
I know this as I was studying climate changes due to the Earth Axis in Year 11-12 Agriculture.