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EABOD25@lemm.ee
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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

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

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helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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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

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EABOD25@lemm.ee
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But you understood what I said right?

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Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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I think KPH is the preferred acronym. km/h is the proper unit of course.

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psud@aussie.zone
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(you’re in science memes, you can expect to get corrected for incorrect symbols)

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

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stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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to be honest there wouldn’t be many living organisms still alive for it to be a problem for

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OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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“What if there is no tomorrow?! There wasn’t one today!”

-Phil Connors

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TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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Really sums up small town life.

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

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

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min@lemmy.sdf.org
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They didn’t say how fast it stopped rotating and whether the moon flew out of orbit awhile back.

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demesisx@infosec.pub
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Touché!

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

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

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i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo

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I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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Wheatley would probably approve

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asudox@programming.dev
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Oh yes, I immediately remembered portal after reading this, lol.

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