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Tomorrow's Problems (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

But you understood what I said right?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you. I live in the US, so I tried to express speed in a relatively same sense. I'll change it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Correct, because the context gave it away, the same way I Can w_rte like dis aN,d YoU wl undrstmd me.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Cool. So you get it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

to be honest there wouldn't be many living organisms still alive for it to be a problem for

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

-Phil Connors

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Really sums up small town life.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months 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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

365x24=8760

Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Touché!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But did all the objects on earth also lose their momentum? Otherwise they would be already made into paste before the waves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If it was magic and kinda just....slowed down to stop. Like a cartoon or a comic logic then yea that could work.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wheatley would probably approve

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

obligatory xkcd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5G1QG6cXc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Now on the big screen!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

what if? [sic]?