00:00Have you ever imagined what will happen if Earth stops spinning just for one second?
00:05Right now, as we speak, you're racing at 1670 km per hour just by standing still.
00:14Faster than a bullet train, faster than a jet plane.
00:17Well, you don't feel it because everything around you spins with Earth.
00:21But if Earth stops just for one second, everything that's not bolted down will be thrown off violently.
00:28Imagine winds stronger than a thousand hurricanes.
00:31Car, buildings and even entire cities thrown at jet speed.
00:35Mega tsunamis swallowing coastlines.
00:38Earthquakes tearing continents apart.
00:40And that's not all.
00:42The sudden jolt could even mess with Moon's orbit.
00:45Sending tides into chaos.
00:47Flooding entire coastlines in unpredictable ways.
00:50Yes, even though this is an imaginary situation that we are talking about,
00:55but even factually, the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down due to tidal forces exerted by the Moon.
01:03The process is so slow that it takes about 50,000 years for our day to lengthen just by one second.
01:10Well, the Earth's rotation is not likely to stop anytime soon.
01:14But remember this, the calm steady rotation under your feet is the invisible force keeping life alive.
01:20Lose that spin and it's game over.
01:23We won.
01:24We won.
01:29Amen.
Comments