{"id":17336,"date":"2021-04-23T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=17336"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:59:17","slug":"what-if-the-earth-stopped-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=17336","title":{"rendered":"What if the Earth Stopped Spinning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What if the Earth Stopped Spinning?<\/h2>\n<p>If Earth stopped spinning all at once, it would be enormously catastrophic for much of the planet\u2019s surface. Though we don\u2019t feel it, we\u2019re all moving along with the planet as it rotates; at the equator, this works out to around <a href=\"https:\/\/image.gsfc.nasa.gov\/poetry\/ask\/a10840.html\">1,000 miles per hour.<\/a> Stop the planet suddenly, and everything sitting on top of it would go flying eastward. Imagine people, houses, trees, boulders and more being launched sideways at hundreds of miles an hour. 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If Earth stopped spinning all at once, it would be enormously catastrophic for much of the planet\u2019s surface. Though we don\u2019t feel it, we\u2019re all moving along with the planet as it rotates; at the equator, this works out to around 1,000 miles per hour. 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