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If Earth's spin reversed, everything would be different
If Earth's spin reversed, everything would be different
This animation was inspired by BBC Radio 4's The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry. Listen to the full episode or subscribe to the podcast, in which Hannah Fry quizzes cosmologist Andrew Pontzen about the birth of the Solar System and why everything in space seems to spin.
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I love Curious Cases :)
Wow. I finally can add the stopping of the Earth's spin to my endgame / armageddon / apocolypse event list...
Black holes, a dying sun, a lethal comet impact, atomic war, biological arms, pandemics weren't frightening enough.
It'll never happen tho. The amount of energy required is way too much for it to be even a passing concern.