Science questions

[wdleehi]

So, in this scenario what's my best disaster plan?  Canned food, a bunker and a shotgun isn't going to cut it?  Maybe one of those giant plastic balls that people get into and roll down hills?  Full of canned food and shotguns, obviously!

Create a long voyage space craft and hope for the best. 

The Earth is toast for anyone to live on.  (or an ice cube if you happen to be on the dark side of the now still planet)

Who would even still be here? Would we retain the atmosphere?

I would think so.  I think Gravity will catch enough of it fast enough.

[jarufu]

So, in this scenario what's my best disaster plan?  Canned food, a bunker and a shotgun isn't going to cut it?  Maybe one of those giant plastic balls that people get into and roll down hills?  Full of canned food and shotguns, obviously!

Create a long voyage space craft and hope for the best. 

The Earth is toast for anyone to live on.  (or an ice cube if you happen to be on the dark side of the now still planet)

Who would even still be here? Would we retain the atmosphere?

I would think so.  I think Gravity will catch enough of it fast enough.

A snow-globe with people for flakes ..

[BballTim]

So, in this scenario what's my best disaster plan?  Canned food, a bunker and a shotgun isn't going to cut it?  Maybe one of those giant plastic balls that people get into and roll down hills?  Full of canned food and shotguns, obviously!

Create a long voyage space craft and hope for the best. 

The Earth is toast for anyone to live on.  (or an ice cube if you happen to be on the dark side of the now still planet)

Who would even still be here? Would we retain the atmosphere?

  The earth stopping spinning wouldn't throw off the atmosphere, just create a lot of wind temporarily. If we suddenly stopped traveling through space (ie rotating around the sun/galaxy/whatever, some/much of the atmosphere might continue it's journey.

[Eja117]

Last time I tried this people brought up God and I think it got locked. If you're going to bring up God please remember we already have a Tim Tebow thread

If everything in motion stays in motion, which is why like when fast cars suddenly stop you lunge out of your chair, does that mean if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning we would all go flying about a hundred miles or so?  Does anyone know this?

  Probably not a hundred miles, but a significant distance. It also obviously depends on where you are. At the equator you'd be spinning at about 1000mph before the stop, neat the poles you'd hardly be moving.

so the earth would be ruled by penguins in this scenario? 

That'd be an upgrade on Rick Perry.

Zing! Bu dum bing

[Eja117]

I would not have thought of the atmosphere or oceans flowing.

I was envisioning that Tim Tebow flew into space and then just kind of rammed into us and used his arms to slow us down.  This assumes that the only one who could conceivably stop him (Tedy Bruschi) was nowhere nearby to attempt to defend us. 

This may bring me to my next thread.....it's lockout time so it probably wouldn't hurt. We could do it inbetween questions about PB and J

[Eja117]

If the dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin wouldn't she have suffocated?

[hwangjini_1]

If the dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin wouldn't she have suffocated?

if you can believe in snow white, magic, witches, dwarves, poison apples, and princely-kisses resurrecting a comatose virgin......


then not suffocating in a poorly constructed glass box is probably not much of a stretch.

p.s. i am not sure if science at all enters into this thread high jack, but i can live with it given the lock out.

[BballTim]

If the dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin wouldn't she have suffocated?

  If she was breathing, they probably wouldn't put her in the coffin. And was the whole coffin made out of glass, or just the lid?

[Redz]

If the dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin wouldn't she have suffocated?

Now that's a quality science question.

[Eja117]

I coulda sworn the book said death, but now that I think about it and research it, some varieties say she was sleeping.  it was only the lid that was glass

[LB3533]

-Edited: Previous entry was not related to topic thread.

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[barefacedmonk]

I watched an hour long show on NatGeo TV on this topic.

http://natgeotv.com/uk/aftermath/videos/earth-stopped-spinning

[Eja117]

I watched an hour long show on NatGeo TV on this topic.

http://natgeotv.com/uk/aftermath/videos/earth-stopped-spinning

woah that was freaky

[wdleehi]

Here is a question to ponder that I give my students.



Name an activity that would be awesome with no friction.