Reply to: Oh dear (Scientific)

[stackpole]

A good point: was Superman turning the Earth backwards or was he going faster than light and thus going back in time himself?

He was going back in time. When you are as fast as fcku like Superman you can do that.

He didn't make the earth go round backwards though. We were observing in Superman's time continuum, not the Earth's.

[Churchill]

As I recall, the Almighty actually made it rotate backwards in the Old Testament.

Can't remember where, but for some battle or other time was stopped & rewound for a bit, sort of daylight saving on a very grand scale.

Nah mate, that was Superman... When he saved Lois Lane.

[Marcus Aurelius]

I think thats something to do with the title What would happen if an impact caused Earth to stop rotating?, since that is about the only thing imaginable which could stop the earths rotation.

God could do it!

Chico.

[Joe Black]

I think thats something to do with the title What would happen if an impact caused Earth to stop rotating?, since that is about the only thing imaginable which could stop the earths rotation.

[stackpole]

Stopping the earth itself would of course also cause much fun and amusement:

What would happen if an impact caused Earth to stop rotating?

It all sounded pretty reasonable until they threw this fact in from nowhere:

"A fireball would expand outward destroying material in it's path and polluting the rest of the atmosphere."

A fireball?

[ratewhore]

thats all very well but will my penis get bigger?

Penis size is much like your rate - it can never be big enough...

[sasguru]

The sun, moon and stars revolve round the Earth. The Earth is the centre of the universe.

HTH.
Chico

[Joe Black]

Maybe Rebecca might like to reconsider her suggestion in light of the fact she would instantly add a few pounds...

Stopping the earth itself would of course also cause much fun and amusement:

What would happen if an impact caused Earth to stop rotating?

[luke warm]

If the earth slows down then doesn't that mean our weight effectively drops? That can only be a good thing eh Sandy Down or Rebecca Loos?

Obviously us blokes don't care about that - only if our penises get bigger!!!

No the exact opposite. We would all get a bit heavier as the earth spinning has the opposite effect to gravity.

[Phoenix]

If the earth slows down then doesn't that mean our weight effectively drops? That can only be a good thing eh Sandy Down or Rebecca Loos?

Obviously us blokes don't care about that - only if our penises get bigger!!!

Gravity would surely fail...the beer would float out of the glass!!

[ratewhore]

If the earth slows down then doesn't that mean our weight effectively drops? That can only be a good thing eh Sandy Down or Rebecca Loos?

Obviously us blokes don't care about that - only if our penises get bigger!!!

[Phoenix]

I'd like to slow down the Earth so much so that it stops. But we need to time it right so that it stops at 9pm in the UK, which I reckon is the best time of the day. Bars still open, work finished.

But we would all fall of!!!

[Joe Black]

Maybe we should ask these people, they managed to stop the earth so perhaps they'd know how to speed it up as well...

[Rebecca Loos]

I'd like to slow down the Earth so much so that it stops. But we need to time it right so that it stops at 9pm in the UK, which I reckon is the best time of the day. Bars still open, work finished.

[n5gooner]

If we shaved of about an inch of top soil across the globe., wouldn't that make the earth smaller, and therefore rotate faster?? eh! eh!

If we all run in the same direction, would it turn the earth into a big tread mill?