@@nataljagerasimova5108 True true - but the above mentioned 'suddenly becoming stationar' is just an extreme deceleration. And I wanted to point out, that this goes in both directions. So any sudden change from your actual speed can cill you.
Lol, your whole body would be Swiss cheese, regardless of how well restrained you are. Stopping abruptly from those speeds, you'd be instantly liquified against whatever is holding you down.
@@danicegewiss862mush worse than a simple neck snap. People’s bodies are completely mutilated from a simple 50 mph car crash. Imagine abruptly stopping at 800mph. You’d instantly become mush. There would be no body, but hey at least the death would likely be instantaneous 😂
Weird thing is in scientific community people respect Tyson a lot . But people who don't know anything try to make fun of him because he challenges thinking
@@motherisapeI mean he can get pretty heated and interrupt a lot, which is the main thing people rag on him for, but that’s just because he’s so passionate about science, especially astrophysics
PTSD literally stands for Post Traumatic Shock Disorder. If Neil has had a big trauma in the *past* I'm pretty sure it didn't involve the earth standing still.
Nah, the shock of knowing what would happen if that happens was enough to irritate his nervous center and give him the shock, he doesn't want anybody to try that! @@bcaye
Actually this was brought up in the movie 2012 (made in 2009), one of my favorite disaster movies. One of the plot points was that the rotation of the earth slowed. It didn't stop, *it slowed.* And there was still a ton of damage due to the tsunami that happened *all along* the west coast of every land mass.
I love the face at the end! 😂 I saw your interview at Lincoln Center of William Shatner and the Director for his movie.. That was one of the best exchanges I have ever seen.
So I should stop saying, “Stop this world, I want to get off, eh Neil?” 😂 Happy New Year and All the BEST in 2024. Please keep on inspiring and educating us. ☯️💜✨☯️🎆💫✨🤩
You would have to be strapped to the earth via a very elastic, lengthy and very strong bungee cord and hope it slowed you down before you hit anything. But even if that part worked, you would continue straight as the earth curved away so you might be too far off the ground the survive the fall. But they may only be a couple of feet higher so maybe not a problem? I don’t know but I vote to not stop the earth.
Yeah, it's like how a seat belt doesn't do anything if you crash at 800 mph, your squishy organs would slam into you less squishy ribs at 800 mph and those would slam into the strap.
It's like when you suddenly stop a car, bus or train, the vehicle stops but the stuff inside doesn't, but on a much larger scale and with bigger numbers.
That's child abuse at least everyone knows Santa is fake, so when he grows up he will find out about the lie. People grow up and they will still believe this guys lies. Wake up he got you to believe earth is moving? We dont feel it move, and we can see the sun move but if we stop moving we all die. Nah earth is stationary it was made and set on pillars so that it wont move. The Sun moon and stars move you know the celestial spheres? You probably dont know but maybe you should ask yourself next time you see a cloud or a bird or a plane if it is moving in the sky or are you moving?
Ignoring how he got and a Marvel time stone he was used while flying around and looking over his failures superman would have been just making Earth reverse it's direction of travel in time just as at the end of the first Dr Strange movie. He would have needed to be within the atmosphere or cabled to the planet to physically get the planet to slow and reverse. So he'd have ignited the atmosphere at least or disrupted and shifting and cracking of tetanic plates. Depending on how he applied his magical floaty powers against the rotation.
Imagine a car crash where you hit a huge rock that doesnt budge at 80mph and the front doesnt crumple. Now imagine that but moving 10x as fast and the crash being way more abrupt
Follow-up questions: 1. How long would it take (and at what rate) fir the planet to GRADUALLY come to a full stop without any inertial or momental notice? 2. What, then, would happen in respects to tide and gravity?
Also, what if it started to rotate faster at the same gradual rate you proposed until the day's duration were halved. What could be the impact for the climate and life in that scenario?
@@edisonguerrayou'd probably get more extreme weather, like winds and also the fast changing between day and night affecting temperatures, thatbthen affect the weather, not to mention how that would affect life and the ecosystem.
You could do it but it will take a very long time, at least in the thousands, probably millions if you want no problems from it at all. As for tides and gravity, those wouldn't change, gravity would remainbthe same and the moon would still go around the earth. Although you would get slower tides and they'd only move in line with the obrit of the moon, which will now be a straight line across the earth.
ad 1. It's happening right NOW, as we speak. Days are progressively getting longer as the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down. It's an unimaginably slow process (from human perspective). It's been happening for the past 4.5 billion years and it's going to keep happening for many more billions of years until the (slowly rotating) Earth is finally consumed by the dying Sun.
OMG Neil you've got more grey in your hair since the last time I saw you! You're not allowed to get old like us plebs, you have to be the energetic science communicator for the masses for all time!
This guy is like those teachers in high school that made scientific subjects like physics fun and they had their way of making you want to learn it. He is amazing
Technically, only the north and south poles would experience it. The rest of us would instantly pass out from the force of being yeeted at supersonic speeds, then die on impact with whatever we collide with.
@@noolaiphx8189 decades? EVERYONE in amongst any buildings or within 500 miles of coast dies almost instantly which is already like 90% of people. Who is alive? Then, all of the world's Nuclear plants would meltdown It would take hundreds of Millions years for another animal to evolve to our level "to recover"
At the equator, the distance covered is equal to Earth's circumference of 24,901 mi (40,075 km), and it takes 24 hours for Earth to cover the said distance. Therefore, the average speed of Earth's rotation at the equator is about 1,038 mi/hr (1,670 km/hr) or roughly 1,000 mi/hr.
There was a science fiction story where all the ICBMs were used to 'regularize' earth's rotation period. All the continents slipped beneath the oceans and all that was left behind were rubber duckies and a lot of plastic
But, besides the stopping of the momentum, say you could safely stop it, wait 5 seconds, then safely start it. What would that 5 seconds be like? Would we feel heavier during that 5 seconds because centripetal force is not trying to fling us outward, and at the same time counteracting the attraction of gravity somewhat? If so, would that happen on a larger scale? Would it cause the oceans to sit heavier in their basins, perhaps causing tectonic consequences? What are the effects of a lack of rotation during the 5 seconds, not before or after it?
Randall Munroe addressed this question in his book "What if?". He had in illustration of the earth with the poles highlighted and the rest of earth highlighted in a different shade. The legend read for most of the earth as "Terrible things happen" and the poles "Terrible things happen, but more slowly".
I mentioned this years ago about Superman turning back time. That the sudden lurch would be like your dog shaking water off his body. The devastation would be incredible.
320 million cubic miles of ocean water travelling at 800 mph would circle the earth many times, submerging all land with a level of violence that is only seen on some outer planets
Five seconds at 800 mph is only a little over a mile. Then the earth starts rotating again, which means another 800mph accel event which should wipe out everyone who survived the sudden stop, but the water... would only have made it about a mile east... everywhere... and then would do untold horrific damage as it sloshed and waved and drained and such back into place, doubtless destroying entire island chains and every coast.
I'm reminded of the 1937 movie "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" starring Roland Young. At the end of the movie, Fotheringay (Roland Young) stops the world, and everything is thrown sideways.
Zechariah 1:11 “And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.” King James Version (KJV)
What if Earth just gradually slowed down? Like 1% speed slowdown across the day for 100 days (still 24 hours) until Earth stops? We would probably feel a very slight drifting motion to the east, but would there be anything major? Can it just slowly stop... and therefore leave one side of the planet in absolute heat while the other in absolute cold.
I was about to post the same question. There would be a lag in the slowing of the atmosphere that would be non-linear at the surface as well as upward in altitude. I wonder if anyone would still be alive by day 100. An interesting experiment would be to take a globe with a relief map and fill it with lead, submerse it in a medium, spin it up to a relative speed, and visualize the changes in the medium as it slows. A computer simulation would be fascinating as well. Hmmm.
When we say the word earth we mean thhe atmosphere buildings and also us so if the earth stops mysteriously that means all of us would also stop mysteriously so nothing would happen
He forgot about sudden winds of up to 800mph near ground level. Mind you, the atmosphere also rotates with the earth. And probably Volcanoes would erupt more violent than ever and the tectonic / continental would move and crash and cause earthquakes on a magnitude way beyond 9. And not just people would roll for 800 miles due east, buildings would do so as well.
❤looks like when I am washing my drinking glasses I moved the glass full with clean water around, when I stopped moving the glass, the water spills out of the glass.
Yea, let's keep it rolling then.
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What actually Alient Ant Farm, sung in 2000
" put your hand .. off " ... " put your hand ... off "
Who is rolling and where 🚬
@@helios7212I am dying from 😅😅😅
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." - Jeremy Clarkson
Well, true. That's what gets the most people...
But extreme acceleration can also do the trick.
@@robertnett9793(Putting on AcTuAlLy NeRd glasses😂) meaning of word acceleration isnt same as meaning for word speed even thou they being so close
@@nataljagerasimova5108 True true - but the above mentioned 'suddenly becoming stationar' is just an extreme deceleration. And I wanted to point out, that this goes in both directions.
So any sudden change from your actual speed can cill you.
@@robertnett9793 ik) Wrote that for those who dont
@@robertnett9793well suddenly becoming stationary is literally deceleration
Stopping the Earth sounds like something a science fiction supervillain would try.
Or the god of the bible, Same thing.
eren yeager
@@Anonymous-vk9mi😂
@@Anonymous-vk9miI don't think his powers could even do anything like dat
@@robechillenyes ik but that comment said "wanted to try"
ig he would want to try this if he would become this powerful lol
I love this guy...he makes us all appreciate life on this planet..😊
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he is an idiot.
100000% True
but sadly for you and everyone else knows nada about official NASA records that contain absolute proof of life visiting this planet.
@@ketchupcommander okay! Ha, ha, ha,... whatever...
Even if you where strapped to the earth, your brain would become Swiss cheese at those speeds.
Your neck would snap if it wasn't strapped down.
Strap the brain down then😏
Lol, your whole body would be Swiss cheese, regardless of how well restrained you are. Stopping abruptly from those speeds, you'd be instantly liquified against whatever is holding you down.
@@danicegewiss862mush worse than a simple neck snap. People’s bodies are completely mutilated from a simple 50 mph car crash. Imagine abruptly stopping at 800mph. You’d instantly become mush. There would be no body, but hey at least the death would likely be instantaneous 😂
“What happens if…?”
“You would die. The answer is you would die. Every time.”
What happens if Earth's nucleus change it's direction?
Well in that case you wouldn't die apparently
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Yes that is true but we want to know how it would go down. Lol
Everyone but the cameraman would die, because we all know someone has to record it and the cameraman never dies!!! ;)
This video tripped me out 😂
Even worse: we’d have to change our clocks.
Our underwear too...
... Dammit. Do we then keep Summertime or Daylight saving time?
Lmfao … fr there would be one time all the time
😂😂😂😂
@@BENZ-GVEVOand I don't think it would be a good time!
That look at the end says it all… I always learn something new listening to you Dr Tyson 🎉
Weird thing is in scientific community people respect Tyson a lot . But people who don't know anything try to make fun of him because he challenges thinking
@@motherisapei use to feel like that until i enjoyed science
@@sibongisenikhumalo8198 no buddy is logically able to tackle him . if you want to give any evidence then you can try
@@motherisapeI mean he can get pretty heated and interrupt a lot, which is the main thing people rag on him for, but that’s just because he’s so passionate about science, especially astrophysics
@@swagdaddy5387 it is a fact that people who are against him have no logical argument against him
Interviewer: “What would happen if the earth stopped rotating for 5 seconds?”
Neil: *Visible PTSD*
PTSD literally stands for Post Traumatic Shock Disorder.
If Neil has had a big trauma in the *past* I'm pretty sure it didn't involve the earth standing still.
Nah, the shock of knowing what would happen if that happens was enough to irritate his nervous center and give him the shock, he doesn't want anybody to try that! @@bcaye
Hah😂😂
Tyson himself would be fine, though. His extraordinary mass would hold him in place.
he already did this except it was for one second not five
Actually this was brought up in the movie 2012 (made in 2009), one of my favorite disaster movies. One of the plot points was that the rotation of the earth slowed. It didn't stop, *it slowed.* And there was still a ton of damage due to the tsunami that happened *all along* the west coast of every land mass.
This man is such a treasure ✨🙌
Wait till his haters see this comment and spew their uninformed minds out with vitriolic hate.
^^ redundancy isn't a sign of intelligence. Just saying.
That how you talk a about the elderly.
Nah bro he's not even
Crap, i posted a reply two weeks ago, and no longer remember the context?
🤣🤣I love the way you approach science,physics and teach with awesome humor♥️
You could license that "That would be reeally baad!" Sound byte, as a stock audio file!
I love the face at the end! 😂
I saw your interview at Lincoln Center of William Shatner and the Director for his movie.. That was one of the best exchanges I have ever seen.
So I should stop saying, “Stop this world, I want to get off, eh Neil?” 😂 Happy New Year and All the BEST in 2024. Please keep on inspiring and educating us. ☯️💜✨☯️🎆💫✨🤩
sounds like a plot for Dr. Evil while he sits in his space station
If he can’t have Mojo, *no one can*
I miss that series
Anyone strapped to the earth would have goo for internal organs.
Also those internal organs would no longer be so internal.
I would hate to see what would happen to people not strapped to the earth.
You would have to be strapped to the earth via a very elastic, lengthy and very strong bungee cord and hope it slowed you down before you hit anything. But even if that part worked, you would continue straight as the earth curved away so you might be too far off the ground the survive the fall. But they may only be a couple of feet higher so maybe not a problem? I don’t know but I vote to not stop the earth.
Yeah, it's like how a seat belt doesn't do anything if you crash at 800 mph, your squishy organs would slam into you less squishy ribs at 800 mph and those would slam into the strap.
@@J.W1180have to be a STRONG bungee to take that impact too! Faster than the speed of sound.
My man is mutating into Einstein
But a Woke one!!
No
Yeah your right both are frauds that lie about everything.
@@SS13934. Sorry but how is this guy woke?.
@@SS13934and thats a good thing????
I love watching Neil’s shorts. He’s such a great guy
never seen him wearing shorts
but if you like watching him in them...
That last sentence like he’s talking to us. This was your thought Neil, not ours. 😂😂
It's like when you suddenly stop a car, bus or train, the vehicle stops but the stuff inside doesn't, but on a much larger scale and with bigger numbers.
Yeah due to inertia.
Very creative way of teaching, throwing the learners in other dimensions, thank you great teacher.love from Mauritius.
I had to show this one to my son - hilariously good!
I love how Mr. Tyson entertains these questions 😂
That's child abuse at least everyone knows Santa is fake, so when he grows up he will find out about the lie. People grow up and they will still believe this guys lies. Wake up he got you to believe earth is moving? We dont feel it move, and we can see the sun move but if we stop moving we all die. Nah earth is stationary it was made and set on pillars so that it wont move. The Sun moon and stars move you know the celestial spheres? You probably dont know but maybe you should ask yourself next time you see a cloud or a bird or a plane if it is moving in the sky or are you moving?
The sound effects 'That would be really bad!' 😂😂😂
Well damn that took a turn I didn’t expect
So when Superman went back in time, he realistically would’ve killed the world.
Ignoring how he got and a Marvel time stone he was used while flying around and looking over his failures superman would have been just making Earth reverse it's direction of travel in time just as at the end of the first Dr Strange movie.
He would have needed to be within the atmosphere or cabled to the planet to physically get the planet to slow and reverse. So he'd have ignited the atmosphere at least or disrupted and shifting and cracking of tetanic plates. Depending on how he applied his magical floaty powers against the rotation.
@@AJB4D yeah but Dr strange uses magic, that’s different. Superman is just an alien, magic is literally one of his weaknesses.
@@dibsdibs3495 exactly why I made the reference. Just making up something to explain what happened cause the movie didn't.
@@AJB4D oh I didn’t realize it was a joke, I skimmed it
I just posted the same thing, not knowing you had already done it! I thought I was being so clever!
You are my favourite teacher Professor Tyson!
Love from Belgium!
Not me buying a harness to attach myself to the planet.
You joker 😂
Imagine a car crash where you hit a huge rock that doesnt budge at 80mph and the front doesnt crumple. Now imagine that but moving 10x as fast and the crash being way more abrupt
If the earth takes a 10th of a second to come to a halt, you would be experiencing (assuming 50kg mass) 23 000 Newtons or about 50 g forces
@@zo1o281 I can handle that easily.
Lol as the ocean falls on top of you and your harness 👍
That is the best visual explanation I've ever seen, loved it!
The Birds... and Aaron Eckert! 😮 Wait, not billions AND BILLIONS of people?
This man is the Carl Sagan of the 21st Century
That was his mentor ❤
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@@peacefulmaroon Now the question is who will Neil pass the torch on to?
@@HalkerVeilme! I’m ready! bring it on!
. not Quite !
Follow-up questions: 1. How long would it take (and at what rate) fir the planet to GRADUALLY come to a full stop without any inertial or momental notice? 2. What, then, would happen in respects to tide and gravity?
Great question!
Also, what if it started to rotate faster at the same gradual rate you proposed until the day's duration were halved. What could be the impact for the climate and life in that scenario?
@@edisonguerrayou'd probably get more extreme weather, like winds and also the fast changing between day and night affecting temperatures, thatbthen affect the weather, not to mention how that would affect life and the ecosystem.
You could do it but it will take a very long time, at least in the thousands, probably millions if you want no problems from it at all.
As for tides and gravity, those wouldn't change, gravity would remainbthe same and the moon would still go around the earth. Although you would get slower tides and they'd only move in line with the obrit of the moon, which will now be a straight line across the earth.
ad 1. It's happening right NOW, as we speak. Days are progressively getting longer as the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down. It's an unimaginably slow process (from human perspective). It's been happening for the past 4.5 billion years and it's going to keep happening for many more billions of years until the (slowly rotating) Earth is finally consumed by the dying Sun.
You’d wanna be as close to the poles as possible
The ISS might be the safest place.
@@Jackie-wn5hx I mean, if you’re not on the space station lol
@@JerryC25 I can only picture one of those ice skater spins being on the poles.
@@Jackie-wn5hx Stuff might fly off into space and hit ISS too. I think 800MPH would be enough to send some things airbourne like a plane.
@@j.c.p.4671You’d have to be going much faster than 800mph to reach the ISS
You've taught me sooo much. Thanks ❤
That would really mess up my weekend.
That sounds so very lovely!
This guy is the goat
OMG Neil you've got more grey in your hair since the last time I saw you! You're not allowed to get old like us plebs, you have to be the energetic science communicator for the masses for all time!
He reads the news.
I have to AGREE, HE ABSOLUTELY HAS TO LIVE BEYOND THE REST OF US !!
I think he colours his hair, he might have just removed it.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind him becoming an energetic gray old man, like Bill Nye.
It shocked me too, honestly I didnt even listen to the short, I was having an existential crisis thinking 10 years had gone in just a week...
This guy is like those teachers in high school that made scientific subjects like physics fun and they had their way of making you want to learn it.
He is amazing
Can't beliebe Neil actually went to another universe, stopped earth just to record the oceans destroying everything, that's dedication.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
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Do the flat earthers think their earth rotates?
Who would play the lead in this 3rd remake? Michael Rennie 1951 and Keanu Reeves 2008
Mars: “what happened”
Earth: “well, I’m not sure. I paused for a selfie with a comet and all the humans stopped creating green house gases”
From "fossil fuels"? 😅
Always hilarious dr.Tyson greetings from Greece
I've always wanted to see the Great Wall
*Earth stops rotating*
*While flying through the air BEFORE landing*
Oh, hey! That's where it used to be
I like you, you make things so interesting
I love your videos they are very informative.
Thanks Neil for talking me out of it because I was wondering what this lever does. It’s says Earth Rotation Emergency Stop.
HG Wells wrote a short story about this very subject called “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” iirc.
Did some people survive? Maybe on the poles?
@@dramalexi I wouldn’t want to spoil it for you >:-]
There was a movie called The Man Who Could Work Miracles, made in 1936 starring Roland Young. It shows you what happens when the earth stops rotating.
the wind would hurt anyone that was strapped to the earth.
It's like falling from a skyscraper.
It isn't really dangerous, but if you're 10 inches above the floor you slowly should come up with a plan.
There’s that face again. Love it 😂😂😂😂
That's the longest 5 seconds we could experience.
Technically, only the north and south poles would experience it. The rest of us would instantly pass out from the force of being yeeted at supersonic speeds, then die on impact with whatever we collide with.
@talibong9518 not really supersonic speed but I get ya
@@talibong9518 tbf, that sounds kinda like a badass way to go out.
It would take decades to recover from that 5 seconds.
@@noolaiphx8189 decades? EVERYONE in amongst any buildings or within 500 miles of coast dies almost instantly which is already like 90% of people. Who is alive? Then, all of the world's Nuclear plants would meltdown It would take hundreds of Millions years for another animal to evolve to our level "to recover"
Neil gets better with age
How you explain your intelligence is awesome 👏🏾, entertaining and thoughtful 🧐
At the equator, the distance covered is equal to Earth's circumference of 24,901 mi (40,075 km), and it takes 24 hours for Earth to cover the said distance. Therefore, the average speed of Earth's rotation at the equator is about 1,038 mi/hr (1,670 km/hr) or roughly 1,000 mi/hr.
There was a science fiction story where all the ICBMs were used to 'regularize' earth's rotation period. All the continents slipped beneath the oceans and all that was left behind were rubber duckies and a lot of plastic
Love this informational content
Villains after this video :
I want to destroy the world❎
I want to stop earth from rotating✔️
You're the best Neil
Great thing to think about right before bedtime 🥴 thanks Neil 😅
I love this guy
And then the startup of the spin again would cause another level of damage.
but what if it slowed down its speed by 1mph every day until it stopped?
He forgot to mention the G force of 800mph would just internally rupture everything inside a peron or thing. Instant death
Well there's no gravity in space and astronauts don't die?🤔🤫
@@thomassalas5191that’s totally unrelated
But, besides the stopping of the momentum, say you could safely stop it, wait 5 seconds, then safely start it. What would that 5 seconds be like? Would we feel heavier during that 5 seconds because centripetal force is not trying to fling us outward, and at the same time counteracting the attraction of gravity somewhat? If so, would that happen on a larger scale? Would it cause the oceans to sit heavier in their basins, perhaps causing tectonic consequences? What are the effects of a lack of rotation during the 5 seconds, not before or after it?
Expecting a next movie in this concept. Food for thought.. 😉
so your saying that when Superman started going around earth in opposite direction to turn back time and save Louise was fake?
Lmfao😂😂😂😂
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I always wondered why the earth didn't kept roasting backwards, I don't remember him fixing the rotation back to normal.
Superman was selfish
@@tsunade20031he did fly the correct way to fix the reverse spin.
What if earth stops rotating and you’re in an airplane
Air is affected too. Depends on your course, but basically you would crash. Most likely into some tsunami.
Good question
If the earth is moving at 800 miles an hour and stops I think the plane would be going 800 miles per hour plus some
Doomed as well. Even if you by any chance keep flying you can not land safely enough. Just not possible
Randall Munroe addressed this question in his book "What if?". He had in illustration of the earth with the poles highlighted and the rest of earth highlighted in a different shade. The legend read for most of the earth as "Terrible things happen" and the poles "Terrible things happen, but more slowly".
What’s it about?, sounds interesting
@@mockingbird52Randall Monroe is the creator of XKCD. His book "What If" is about hypothetical situations.It's really hilarious!
@@CornerStaple Time has no meaning in a black hole...
@eddiemurphy5566 then it is possible to live in a black hole but first you gotta get pass the black hole without of course destroying yourself
Instant break is not good for anybody, the question should have been what if the Earth's rotation stops gradually, what would happen?
Not if you had a really fast horse, then you outrun this calamity
It took me fifteen years to forget that!
Eminem: I don't know why the world keeps turning round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now
I❤ his brain.
And flat Earthers will finally be able to flipover the Earth.
If Earth started rotating that’s when we all would be in big trouble .
It might also get quite windy.
So true amen 🙏
Amen? Read the bible FFS, I ain't religious but Jesus! 🙄
I mentioned this years ago about Superman turning back time. That the sudden lurch would be like your dog shaking water off his body.
The devastation would be incredible.
Supes isn't so bright...lol
The question was "what did you have for breakfast?"
Now we need a movie showing this
Sometimes.. I used to contemplate whatif we are instantly transported from one place to another.. like magic.. at greater speed than any..
320 million cubic miles of ocean water travelling at 800 mph would circle the earth many times, submerging all land with a level of violence that is only seen on some outer planets
But DUDE imagine the wave you could surf then...
Five seconds at 800 mph is only a little over a mile. Then the earth starts rotating again, which means another 800mph accel event which should wipe out everyone who survived the sudden stop, but the water... would only have made it about a mile east... everywhere... and then would do untold horrific damage as it sloshed and waved and drained and such back into place, doubtless destroying entire island chains and every coast.
right
he is so funny 🤣
Because he's a joke.
Neil was actually asked to explain how to perfectly whip egg yolks for meringue
*Imagines human merengue* 😬
A question was asked. He read the question out for all of us to hear it. These jokes are not funny anymore
So now it takes 26 hours for earth to make a full rotation at 800 mph when it's supposed to be rotating at a 1000 mph full rotation in 24 hours
I'm reminded of the 1937 movie "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" starring Roland Young. At the end of the movie, Fotheringay (Roland Young) stops the world, and everything is thrown sideways.
Zechariah 1:11
“And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.”
King James Version (KJV)
What if Earth just gradually slowed down? Like 1% speed slowdown across the day for 100 days (still 24 hours) until Earth stops? We would probably feel a very slight drifting motion to the east, but would there be anything major? Can it just slowly stop... and therefore leave one side of the planet in absolute heat while the other in absolute cold.
I was about to post the same question.
There would be a lag in the slowing of the atmosphere that would be non-linear at the surface as well as upward in altitude. I wonder if anyone would still be alive by day 100.
An interesting experiment would be to take a globe with a relief map and fill it with lead, submerse it in a medium, spin it up to a relative speed, and visualize the changes in the medium as it slows. A computer simulation would be fascinating as well. Hmmm.
Oh dear.. What consequences.. Un imaginable.. Great way of saying it
I love this guy's intuition
He's so intelligent with knowledge... I like ....
Neil de grasse Tyson, a man I strive to be, one of great intellect, studying the great yonder
Someone please send him the "Wandering Earth" movie. He's gonna LOVE it...
When we say the word earth we mean thhe atmosphere buildings and also us so if the earth stops mysteriously that means all of us would also stop mysteriously so nothing would happen
I would love to watch that simulated. It would be so chaotic and insane
He forgot about sudden winds of up to 800mph near ground level. Mind you, the atmosphere also rotates with the earth.
And probably Volcanoes would erupt more violent than ever and the tectonic / continental would move and crash and cause earthquakes on a magnitude way beyond 9.
And not just people would roll for 800 miles due east, buildings would do so as well.
Exactly it’s like driving or being of a passenger of a car going 800 mph and hitting a wall 800mph ITS COMMON SENSE
❤looks like when I am washing my drinking glasses I moved the glass full with clean water around, when I stopped moving the glass, the water spills out of the glass.
That guy was trying to giddy up so hard 😂😂😂
Superman stopped the rotation of the earth 🌎 so he would have killed billions of people just to save Louis 😢
WOW!!! I actually thought he was gonna say “nothing!” But hey, let’s keep it moving! 😂