00:03Earth, like most planets out in the cosmos, famously spins on an axis, but what if it didn't?
00:09What if one day, instead of twirling at 1,040 miles per hour, it just suddenly stopped, coming to a
00:14halt all at once?
00:16Well, geoscientists tell Business Insider, the first thing that would happen is that you and literally anything that isn't bolted
00:22to the ground would go flying eastward at around 1,000 miles per hour.
00:26That's because of inertia, or Newton's Law, that outlines how things in motion tend to stay in motion.
00:31And since we are all currently moving with the Earth at 1,040 miles per hour, we would remain moving
00:36at that speed, even if our planet suddenly stopped doing the same.
00:39That jarring event would likely kill every living creature on the planet.
00:43But if something did survive that, they likely wouldn't survive what happens next.
00:48Geoscientist Joseph Levy of Colgate University says,
00:50Water, too, would feel this sudden acceleration, meaning giant waves of water ripped from the ocean would also be moving
00:56over land at intense speeds, knocking over any buildings or trees that happened to survive the initial catastrophic event.
01:03So would anywhere be safe?
01:04According to Levy, the safest places would be near the planet's poles, where its rotational speed is much slower.
01:10Luckily, that's unlikely to happen.
01:12And Earth's slowing spin due to tidal breaking from the moon isn't expected to happen for billions of years.
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