Check this Vsauce video.

gonna be covered in stealth tech next.

Will it's rotation stop before being gobbled by the Sun or The Terror of Unspeakable Evil, Howard.

well looks like the skinnies missed…this time.

Lmao some of you people take the cheese every single time

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You would be blown in excess of 1000 mph off your feet until you slammed into something splattering you all over the place. The reason for this is because even though we dont feel it, we are moving along with the planet. Gravity keeps us in place. If the earth stopped suddenly, we'd still be moving and thrown foward. There would be massive flooding and waves as the water is tossed about other items as well. Dont know what would happen next because every living thing would be dead.

If observers in the alpha Centauri system looked at our Sun, they would see a star of apparent magnitude 0.5, which is very bright. The Sun would be in the constellation Cassiopeia, and could be considered as an extension of it. (Cassiopeia itself wouldn't appear much different.) Here's a Sky & Telescope article about this.

Sorry no answer. I'm too busy worrying about asteroids or Rouge planets going kablooee over my head to think about something that can't happen. But good brain food. Enjoy.

The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won't work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, "cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship."

This extraordinarily intimate account of the 1967 death of a Russian cosmonaut appears in a new book, "Starman", by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony.

"Starman" tells the story of a friendship between two cosmonauts, Vladimir Kamarov and Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin, the first human to reach outer space. The two men were close; they socialized, hunted and drank together.

In 1967, both men were assigned to the same Earth-orbiting mission, and both knew the space capsule was not safe to fly. Komarov told friends he knew he would probably die. But he wouldn't back out because he didn't want Gagarin to die. Gagarin would have been his replacement.

This correct if the earth stopped suddenly, everything at crust level (including the crust) would get tossed at 1000 mph. Also there are many planets that don’t spin as they orbit their star. They are commonly referred to as eyeball planets. This is because the dark side is frozen and the side that faces their star is not. So it looks something like an eyeball. Additionally, Earths rotation is actually slowing and eventually it will stop and become tidally locked to the sun making it another eyeball planet.

After the catastrophic issues of the Earth's spin suddenly stopping have settled, then yes, one side would become desert hot and the other would be an ice age. Life would only survive between the two sides, to varying degrees, based off how far away you were from the border.

Think about summer and winter as it is now, the extremes of "seasons" that earth currently has is purely based off how far away you are from the equator during specific times of the year. The equator is always warm because it's exposed to the sun on average more than any other part of the world. The further north or south you go the temperature varies in magnitudes higher. All because the Earth's tilt let's you see less or more sunlight/heat radiation in a day.

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the wind moving at 1000mph will crash the plane

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!

Arabic speaking scientists carried the science torch from 700 C.E. To 1200 C.E. More classical works would have been lost if they didnt copy them.

We have Genghis Khan to thank for ending Arabic cultural hegemony. When hordes encountered resistant cities, they killed 99% and enslaved the useful remaining 10%.

I knew we shouldn't have come to this backwaterplanet and let you drink that "moonshine" or whatever they called it. No part of their moon is in it and it certainly doesn't shine.

We haven't been able to convince you that you AREN'T human. Even their so called "doctors" are fooled because they rely on machines to diagnosis problems, instead of their &@#$^^% @#$%0. They keep thinking you are human because it looks like that on their machines. They can;t see beyiond the !****#. I knew their language devices wouldn't pick those up.

Hah. These low tech "monkies" will never get off this rock at this rate.

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Welp. Is inertia still in effect? Is this a sudden stop or slows to a stop? A sudden stop will destroy all sorts of stuff probably including orbital stuff. Some of the things on top of the planet will rearrange itself....

The asteroid is at the larger size estimate of 8 meters in diameter, if it had entered the atmosphere it would not have reached the ground intact and would breakup around 30 km above the ground, thus representing only minimal threat to life. So.. nothing to see here, no pun intented

Thanks for your input.

We. We really want to make sure of the trajectory. One thing we can all agree on.

This would effect our magnetosphere and we’d all die from the suns radiation.

Nice to see a pic of the moon that doesn’t look like it has a tropical jungle growing on it!