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Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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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

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Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml
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365x24=8760

Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week

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Umbrias@beehaw.org
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you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.

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alkheemist@aussie.zone
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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.

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rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating

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merc@sh.itjust.works
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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”.

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