We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.

      • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Ehm, good one… what would happen to all satellites and ISS? Would all that junk still spin in the same orbit or would it be flung out into space?

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          1 year ago

          I think they would be going on with their business because gravity would be still the same. IANAP

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      1 year ago

      I mean, sure, there will be some people on the lower end of that 0-1,000 MPH curve that are not in very close vicinity to any objects to splort against. Inupiat, Aleut, Sami, Yamalo-Nenets… anyone inside the arctic circle should be relatively fine, speed-wise.