WEBVTT - What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?

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<v Speaker 1>Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>stuff you should know from house stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chipper and

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<v Speaker 1>Cheery Chuck. Chucker's Bryant right across from me. How are

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<v Speaker 1>you doing? I'm good man. I'm about to go get

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<v Speaker 1>that jar of moonshine for my cubicle. And we've never

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<v Speaker 1>done a show where we just drank moonshine the whole time.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we should. What better day? I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>it's at my desk at home? Oh? Really, do you

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<v Speaker 1>have beers still? Or there may be some other there?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what about. Well, there's a case of

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<v Speaker 1>beer that some other dude sent me, like not it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't show related, but it's been sitting there for like

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<v Speaker 1>a year. What shiner back? Oh? I got some too,

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<v Speaker 1>And then there's a couple of beers from like England,

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<v Speaker 1>and then there may be some moonshine. So let's just

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<v Speaker 1>get drunk. Okay, So you're feeling good, I'm just getting folks,

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna do that, is what you're saying. Um, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>my intro is, uh, you've already pood pooed it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel kind of bad about that. Oh, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>feel bad. It's pretty much part for the course, buddy,

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<v Speaker 1>Are you ready, Chuck? Uh? Many many years ago, roughly

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<v Speaker 1>around four eight billion years ago, um, the Earth really

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<v Speaker 1>started to forming together from a bunch of dust and

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<v Speaker 1>rocks and other dust, so says you, because right, because

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<v Speaker 1>the universe was spinning, right, and all these particles were spinning,

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<v Speaker 1>and as they came together, forming an accretion from an

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<v Speaker 1>incretion disk, they formed the Earth and all other planets obviously, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and all of that spin. Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics,

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<v Speaker 1>one of them, uh, continued to spin and actually accumulated,

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<v Speaker 1>and so the Earth just's spinning. That's why it's spinning,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's always been spinning and all of its particles

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<v Speaker 1>that make it up have been spinning. So it's spinning

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<v Speaker 1>because of the conservation of angular momentum. Right. Yeah. In

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<v Speaker 1>Newton's first law of motion, of course, that's what it was.

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<v Speaker 1>Not thermodynamics. There is a law of motion, which is

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<v Speaker 1>what if an object uh, an object in motion will

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<v Speaker 1>remain in that state of motion unless basically someone comes

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<v Speaker 1>along and puts the brakes on it. Right, unless something

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<v Speaker 1>acts upon it, exactly, and in the vacuum of space,

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing to act upon it to slow the Earth down.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's just gonna keep going. And actually the Earth

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<v Speaker 1>has slowed in its older age. Four million years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>a day uh lasted twenty two hours. Yeah, it's been

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<v Speaker 1>slowing consistently over time, right, Yeah, but it's gonna take

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<v Speaker 1>a while to stop. I think in four hundred million

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<v Speaker 1>years in the future, they think that the day will

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<v Speaker 1>be twenty six hours, so to two years. Slowing by

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<v Speaker 1>two or two hours a day over four million years,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not it's not quick. Well, in four million years,

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<v Speaker 1>is there going to be any Earth? I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>That's such a good question. What will we look like.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's me It's four million years, that's

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<v Speaker 1>my guess. Um. Okay, so the Earth is slowing. We

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<v Speaker 1>understand why it's spinning. We understand that it is slowing down.

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<v Speaker 1>But what happens if somebody just comes along just stops

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<v Speaker 1>it automatically, like just stopped poop stopped. Well, and by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, Jerry, that wasn't an edit. Yeah, that's our

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<v Speaker 1>signal when we beep, that is a call out to Jerry.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're moving very fast, like faster than the speed

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<v Speaker 1>of sound, even though it didn't feel like it. Um

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<v Speaker 1>So if someone stopped it, those same things that would

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<v Speaker 1>happen if you just stopped your car all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>or a train stopped all of a sudden, would happen

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<v Speaker 1>here on Earth, except it would be much more drastic

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<v Speaker 1>because we're spinning much faster. We're spinning in an easterly

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<v Speaker 1>direction at about a thousand miles an hour along the equator.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, if all of a sudden you stop the Earth,

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<v Speaker 1>everything that's unattached to the Earth would keep going eastward

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<v Speaker 1>about a thousand miles an hour, mass, instantly dead, massive flooding,

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<v Speaker 1>you name it, the wind, shock waves, buildings, everything just go.

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<v Speaker 1>And you said something that I find kind of interesting,

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<v Speaker 1>like when I when I when I started to research

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<v Speaker 1>like the Earth's rotation, It's one of those things where

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<v Speaker 1>I just assume I know what I'm talking about, and

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<v Speaker 1>then the more I looked into I was like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of little stuff here, like questions like

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<v Speaker 1>why don't we feel the fact that we're moving through

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<v Speaker 1>space at about a thousand miles an hour and well,

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<v Speaker 1>I found the answer because the Earth moves at a

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<v Speaker 1>constant speed, the constant rate of rotation. There's no acceleration

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<v Speaker 1>or deceleration, which we would feel if that happened. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>Why don't we spin off the Earth? Do you know why?

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<v Speaker 1>I do? Okay? Here? Because of gravity and the gravitational

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<v Speaker 1>poll like, we we want to spin off the Earth.

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<v Speaker 1>That's you know, that's in there. But the force of gravity,

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<v Speaker 1>or the force that wants to spin us off the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth is point three the force of gravity, right, centrifugal

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<v Speaker 1>force weigh much more gravity going on than there is

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<v Speaker 1>uh the other So and I found that if the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth rotated at a rate of eighty minutes, right, it's

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<v Speaker 1>spun around on its axis one full time, So one

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<v Speaker 1>day was eighty minutes long. That would be fast enough

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<v Speaker 1>to overcome the force of gravity, would be thrown off

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<v Speaker 1>into space. But we're not going anywhere because that the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth is never gonna start speeding up like that. That's

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<v Speaker 1>just crazy talk. No, And it's not gonna stop spinning

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<v Speaker 1>either anytime soon. But we can still have fun with

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<v Speaker 1>this topic. So, say that we were existing right now

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<v Speaker 1>as the Earth was really starting to slow down, was

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<v Speaker 1>making its last turn. So it did it gradually like

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<v Speaker 1>Superman style, right, and then, um, the ecosystems were intact.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything was generally intact the moment the Earth stopped spinning

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<v Speaker 1>the day the Earth stood still exactly. Yeah, there would

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<v Speaker 1>be some really interesting things that happened, like a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of are the geography of this planet. I took for

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<v Speaker 1>granted until I read this article, which really opened my eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>So what what what? What are some of the things

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<v Speaker 1>that would happen if they're just stop spinning. Uh? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>seismologists think that it would set off a massive chain

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<v Speaker 1>of super earthquakes because they suspect that UM, the rotation

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<v Speaker 1>the Earth, plays a big role in the movement of

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<v Speaker 1>the tectonic plates. So they seismologists think that you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we would all be dead because of massive, massive earthquakes. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we'd probably be dead for a lot more reasons which

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<v Speaker 1>we can explore, but yes, diverse. Yeah, because think about it,

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<v Speaker 1>that that spinning Earth, the centrivigal force of the Earth

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<v Speaker 1>um is so strong that um it it basically keeps

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<v Speaker 1>the oceans in place. It creates a bulge around the equator,

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<v Speaker 1>Like the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Um it's

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<v Speaker 1>bulged at the middle, and it's that's because of its spin,

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<v Speaker 1>and that bulge actually brings the world's oceans towards the equator.

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<v Speaker 1>In the southern hemisphere they moved north. In the northern hemisphere,

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<v Speaker 1>they moved south. But it's being pulled towards the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of the Earth. There's spare tire. So if it stops

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<v Speaker 1>spinning all of a sudden, the world's oceans would go

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<v Speaker 1>towards the poles. Yeah, like quickly. It would be pretty

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<v Speaker 1>cool to see, I guess not if you're at the poles.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you see a map of what it would look like. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>like basically a supercontinent in the center on both sides

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<v Speaker 1>of the equator. Yeah, like all the way around the globe,

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<v Speaker 1>and two big oceans, one on top and one on

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<v Speaker 1>the bottom. Yeah, and the one on the top of

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<v Speaker 1>the Arctic would actually be about a thousand meters deeper,

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<v Speaker 1>not because there'd be more water there, but because the

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<v Speaker 1>Antarctic basin is bigger deeper. That makes sense, so the

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<v Speaker 1>water would be shallower by comparison. But yeah, I was

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<v Speaker 1>looking so like Chicago would be just under the north

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<v Speaker 1>shore of the Northern Hemisphere's ocean. Um and from that

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<v Speaker 1>point down the United States would be largely intact. All

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<v Speaker 1>the way into the Caribbean South it would just be land.

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<v Speaker 1>It's pretty neat, good looking map. I love freaky weird maps. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>like the early maps. Those were a little weird. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a blog called um unusual Maps, I think maps. I

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<v Speaker 1>can't remember what's called, but it's just like this blog

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<v Speaker 1>about strange maps. It's pretty neat. I used to collect maps,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I didn't have a ton.

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<v Speaker 1>I had like fifteen or sixteen like cool map posters.

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<v Speaker 1>Nice to still have a few of them, but I

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<v Speaker 1>think they went the way of the Dodo in my

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<v Speaker 1>house where they like scholastic foldouts. No, like you know,

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<v Speaker 1>some were like you know, civil War map or the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth at this point map, or you know, just very

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<v Speaker 1>none of them. We're just straight up. I think I

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<v Speaker 1>had one straight up map. Um, so what else would

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<v Speaker 1>happen once that? What happened is the uh? And Robert

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<v Speaker 1>Lamb wrote this, didn't he No, Jonathan at a berry?

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<v Speaker 1>That's right, at a berry at a berry. Good job.

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<v Speaker 1>He says that it will take a whole year to

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<v Speaker 1>pull off what the Earth does in a day, so

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<v Speaker 1>one part of the world would be a blazing, scorching desert,

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<v Speaker 1>and then one part of the Earth would be a barren,

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<v Speaker 1>frozen wasteland half a year, half half the year. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's because the since the Earth rotates on its access

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<v Speaker 1>in about twenty four hours a little under, I think, um,

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<v Speaker 1>if it stopped doing that, it would still move around

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<v Speaker 1>the Sun, it just wouldn't spin on its axis. So

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<v Speaker 1>I figured this out. If you're having trouble visualizing it,

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<v Speaker 1>like I did, put your thumb in front of your

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<v Speaker 1>face out a little bit so that your thumbnail is

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<v Speaker 1>facing you, and then pretend that the Sun is in

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<v Speaker 1>between you and your thumb, and your thumb is the Earth,

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<v Speaker 1>and you just rotated around so that your thumbnails facing

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<v Speaker 1>you all the time. But it's going around the Sun,

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<v Speaker 1>and you'll see that at any given point, right, it's

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<v Speaker 1>the this part of the Earth is facing a different

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<v Speaker 1>part of the sun the thumbnail. So there would be seasons,

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<v Speaker 1>but there'd be four seasons, and they would be very different.

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<v Speaker 1>The line demarcating them would be really different. And when

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<v Speaker 1>you went from winter to summer, eventually you would have

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<v Speaker 1>nothing but sunlight and then nothing but dark, depending on

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<v Speaker 1>the temperature swing would be huge. So what that means is, um,

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<v Speaker 1>we'd probably have a really difficult time propagating with with

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<v Speaker 1>husbandry in general. And you don't mean sex, you're talking

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<v Speaker 1>with plants and animals. I'm not sure what you mean.

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<v Speaker 1>They're propagating with husbandry sounded like a euphemism. No, just

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<v Speaker 1>farming and animals. All that would be more difficult, if

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<v Speaker 1>not impossible, Um to grow crops, you know, for or

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<v Speaker 1>you know, maybe you grow them during the sunny parts

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<v Speaker 1>of the year. What you can grow and then store.

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<v Speaker 1>But we'd be in bad shape. I think we've very

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<v Speaker 1>bad as far as that goes. But botanically speaking, we

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<v Speaker 1>are a pretty uh, pretty quick witted species, so we

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<v Speaker 1>could possibly overcome it technologically maybe you know, I'll bet

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<v Speaker 1>we'd have a really good sunglasses. Yeah, yeah, that's true

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<v Speaker 1>and coats. Um what else would happen anything? Uh, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>the magnetic field, well gravity, I got something on gravity here.

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<v Speaker 1>Gravity would be changed, which is not in the article,

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<v Speaker 1>but um, it would change significantly if it stopped spinning

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<v Speaker 1>because uh, centrogal force of course, what you're talking about

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<v Speaker 1>contributes to that gravitational field, and it wouldn't exist any longer,

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<v Speaker 1>so the gravitational fiel would be strongest at the poles

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<v Speaker 1>instead of at the equator, and who knows what that

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<v Speaker 1>would do. You'd just be a lot heavier at the poles,

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<v Speaker 1>right you think, maybe, Okay, we'd also lose a very

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<v Speaker 1>interesting thing called the Coriolis effect. Yeah, my favorite, which

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<v Speaker 1>you know, um, supposedly with the Coriolis effect, if you're

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<v Speaker 1>in the Northern Hemisphere, if you flush the toilet, the

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<v Speaker 1>water goes down the drain clockwise and in the Northern

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<v Speaker 1>Hemisphere county clockwise. That it's not true. It's all plumbing,

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<v Speaker 1>it's all the design of the drain, the Coriolis effected.

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<v Speaker 1>There has nothing to do with what part of the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth you're in. It's no, it has nothing to do

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<v Speaker 1>with like the drain, the supposedly the Coreolis effect, the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that the Earth is spinning faster at the equator

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<v Speaker 1>than it is at the poles. Uh. It has long

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<v Speaker 1>been tapped as a reason for whirlpooles. They're saying, No,

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<v Speaker 1>that's probably if it's if you're talking about a drain,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the angle of the drain, it's the design of

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<v Speaker 1>the drain, it's the water rushing in when you flush

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<v Speaker 1>the toilet has nothing. That's an old wives tale. But

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<v Speaker 1>there's a coreal Coreoles effect. It's just not quite as interesting. Basically,

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<v Speaker 1>it says that if you leave the north pole and

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<v Speaker 1>fly toward the equator towards a certain market the equator,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're going a straight line, you're gonna miss your

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<v Speaker 1>mark because there are spinning and it's spinning faster at

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<v Speaker 1>the equator than it is at the pole Coreoli. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a curve like a Yeah, you have to basically correct longitudinally,

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<v Speaker 1>okay um to hit your target. Like you just can't

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<v Speaker 1>find a straight line from the north pole of the

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<v Speaker 1>equator if you're trying to get to a certain spot.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the Coriolis effect. Nice, I guess unless I'm missing something.

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<v Speaker 1>It seems kind of basic. Uh yeah, that's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>basic once you wrap your head around it. Uh. There

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<v Speaker 1>are some things that are slowing the earth down. Like

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<v Speaker 1>you said, the days are longer now than they used

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<v Speaker 1>to be. Uh, yes, they used to be what twenty

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<v Speaker 1>two hours you said fion years ago? Yeah, okay, um,

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<v Speaker 1>so we are slowing down. There is uh tidal friction

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<v Speaker 1>and the tide drags two point three milliseconds on each

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<v Speaker 1>century every hundred years. So that's pretty slow, right, But

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<v Speaker 1>it adds up over time, surely, of course it does.

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<v Speaker 1>Um weather can affect it. Two wins can actually slow

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<v Speaker 1>it down. Earthquakes can redistribute the mass and actually speed up.

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<v Speaker 1>Didn't it speed up in the earthquake in Japan? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I think by um one point eight microseconds that the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth's day, it's solar day, was accelerated because that earthquake

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<v Speaker 1>was so massive. Nothing we could notice. What about magnetic

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<v Speaker 1>field though, That's okay, so what I don't fully get.

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<v Speaker 1>So with the magnetic field there, we're not quite sure

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<v Speaker 1>why Earth or how Earth has a magnetic field. But

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<v Speaker 1>the prevailing theory is that because of this coreolis effect

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<v Speaker 1>in the center of the earth, um whirlpools are created

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<v Speaker 1>of molten iron, and as this molten iron kind of

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<v Speaker 1>moves around informs these world pools that actually generates an

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<v Speaker 1>electrical field, an electrical current, which in turn generates a

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<v Speaker 1>magnetic field. So we have this magnetic field. We think

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<v Speaker 1>that's how we have it. But we also have long

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<v Speaker 1>suspected that the magnetic field protects the Earth from solar winds,

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<v Speaker 1>which are positively charged ions from the Sun that travel

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<v Speaker 1>about a million miles an hour off of the Sun

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<v Speaker 1>toward us, and they're about a million degrees celsius. And

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<v Speaker 1>we long thought that it protected our atmosphere from be

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<v Speaker 1>stripped of the ions that we need. Then we started

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<v Speaker 1>looking at other planets and um that don't have any

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<v Speaker 1>magnetic field, because I think it's just the Earth and

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<v Speaker 1>the Sun in our solar system are the only ones

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<v Speaker 1>with magnetic fields. UM. And we found that they lose

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<v Speaker 1>ions at about the same rate that our atmosphere loses ions.

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<v Speaker 1>So we don't know what the magnetic field is doing.

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<v Speaker 1>But I did come across this one interesting fact. We

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<v Speaker 1>lose about a ton of atmosphere a day, really yep,

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<v Speaker 1>and and mostly in the form of water vapor. So

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<v Speaker 1>the Earth is drying out very slowly. Wow. Ye boys,

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<v Speaker 1>So we're slowing down, We're drying out, and in four

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<v Speaker 1>million years will all be toasted. Yeah. That's pretty much

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<v Speaker 1>the long and short of this. And what what We

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<v Speaker 1>did a podcast on what would the Earth look like

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<v Speaker 1>in different inter roles in the future, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>we eventually landed on ultimately destruction and if we're even

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<v Speaker 1>here any longer. Yeah, exactly. We'll use the Earth up.

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<v Speaker 1>It's probably where we landed. Yeah, I think you're right. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>good going, Chuck. Let's hear for Chuck everybody. UM, do

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<v Speaker 1>I had a rough first few weeks of college. I

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<v Speaker 1>my advice is to just stick it out and before

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<v Speaker 1>you know it, you're gonna be loving it. I remember

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<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, even like camp. I did not like camp.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you like going off the college? Yeah, that's fine,

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<v Speaker 1>you're probably ready with that. Yeah, I was. I freaked

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<v Speaker 1>it didn't Uh it was too late to get the

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<v Speaker 1>application in and so I was like, all right, I

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<v Speaker 1>guess I'm going to Georgia by myself. And uh it

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<v Speaker 1>ended up being the greatest thing ever. But I'm glad

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<v Speaker 1>stuck it out, you know the rest of the story. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it is true. I mean, like, you know, just hanging

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<v Speaker 1>in there and being brave, even when it feels like

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<v Speaker 1>I had a college diploma and a lot of friends

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<v Speaker 1>for life. It's good, chuckers. Uh, let's see. If you

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