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@cheese-the-cyclone.bsky.social

YOU MADE A MERCATOR!!!! AHHHHHHHHH

What if Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory was real? Or if I was a multi-billionaire?

Just thought I'd point out that the earth rotates 360 degrees every day. If it only rotated 90 degrees we better hope we have our seat belts on.

Doesn't that happen every 6 hours?

I know somebody who 'thinks' all of the crazy weather we have is from the axial tilt of the earth changing. Couldn't have anything to do with global warming though:\

what would happen if the Sun and Mars magically swapped places?

I wonder how this affects human migration from Africa and cultural development. I'd imagine that our current landmasses are a lot more "appropriate". That is, all the wind and ocean and climate currents were instrumental in positioning continents and making the South Pole one singular mass.

Wait, no, three months each, I can math.

Watched yesterday...great one.

The Netherlands finally floods 👌🌊

if the earth rotated like that we would probably be very scared

It would be 6 hours earlier or later in the day.

Not taking into account changes to oceanic currents, which can have a big effect on local climate — e.g. our Europe would be much colder without the Gulf Stream

This was totally fascinating!

If that happened we’d have much worse problems

Charles Hapgood ... crustal displacement ... very scary stuff

That is almost as complicated as the world is now.

Now I want to go into this and add rain shadows and potential topographical adjustments.

There was an obscure early-90s anime called Tale of the Seven Cities based on this premise. It didn't really do much with it, though

What if the earth were tidally locked?

Nice! Endless summer. Finally! And with the glaciers on the alps, still some skiing too? Count me in.

Would The Orange Turd fall off?

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was wider than any part of the ocean is deep and travelled at 45,000 miles per hour. It "landed" like a cannon ball fired vertically downwards into a kiddie pool. The surface below it wasn't a factor as it would have evaporated any water instantly.

Hold on brb

Yes it did. The globe is unchanged, just rotated. If you grab a ball or something it will be the easiest way to convince yourself.

It's a weird trick of the projection, but if you look at the North Pole on a globe, with the Prime Meridian as the equator, then it really does look like that. The west coast and Mexico get squished a lot.

It does get rotated, it's just that a place like Oregon, at about 120 degrees west, is actually pretty closer to 180 degrees west (which is the new equator), it's not just distant from the prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude. The surface of a sphere is not a rectangle!

Yeah, it’s weird. It just gets rotated from the northern hemisphere to the southern. The northern 90 longitude keeps its orientation and slides straight south. It’s due to the choice of axis for the rotation.

I had this same question. Thank you for asking it.

Projection changes can give fresh insights. Mind, I am still sure the 💩 is inspired by the Mercator projection

This made me think of The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. In that book the Earth begins rotating on its axis slower and slower. The consequences are not pleasant.

Thank you for waiting until the 2nd, so we wouldn't need to be wary of becoming an April Fool.

If this ever actually happened, then everybody in the Northern Hemisphere would obviously slide right off.

Awesome video!

I think the water in the oceans would all pour out. Oops!

It's simple. It would be at the right angle.

Think of the effort required to move the icewall

where's comic #3071

How would things change if the revolution changed? That is, parallel vs perpendicular to the ecliptic?

Crazy

@lilpiscy.bsky.social

Did someone watch that episode of the west wing and wanted a go

Oh good, I'm not the only person who had this thought. 🤓

Not if you just focus on a small part of it. Like that sea surrounded by Siberia/Alaska/Canada/Greenland/etc? Perfection.

The D&D Known World from the '80s was basically the Earth from 125 million years ago.

That's actually a theory people have for what's gonna happen in One Piece once the One Piece treasure is found.

What if we changed the earths rotational axis so that the poles where facing the sun?

Duh… We’d all fall off obviously.

We would have to call it “The gulf of sideways” But it really means we’re going down the toilet, no seriously grab a hold of a floater and hang on it’s going to be a wild ride! Axis Denied!

Then I would probably trip and bonk my head on the coffee table. Again.

Something I wonder about a lot with climate change is how Alaska might be shaped by water over time. If we suddenly rotated 90 degrees as shown, my best guess is incoherent screeching.

That was a weirdly nice way to stop the doom scrolling!😂😂

Two Turntables and Marcoclimate. Where it's at.

The coasts would not be the same because the sea level would rise as the ice in Antarctica and Greenland melted.

let's ask instead: "What if a recurrent micronova blasted the earth into an axis shift every 12,500 years?" or "What if the Earth's poles are about to flip again?"

Like rotated 90 degrees then stopped instead of rotating a full 360 each day?

...or at least lower him into a dirty prison where 34 time felons belong.

Indeed...and it might be a turn for the better. (It is hard to imagine it getting any worse.)

Science cannot disprove 4 harmonic Earth day rotation.

[insert sidereal vs solar day joke here]

My thought process: "They rotated it at the prime meridian so that Britain gets to be on the equator, but that's arbitrary. What if they picked a different axis? Does it even have to go through the equator? You know, technically, it does rotate 90° every 6 hours...Phil Plait beat me to it!"

YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID!

Awwwww, you stole my bit! 😝

Thanks for giving me an activity for my Meteorology class!

I have the solution to our green energy needs but I can't get anyone to listen. Can I send you the solution?

Perth, Australia would no longer have a “dry heat” and that would be not on.

This doesn't actually happen because the earth is rotating around his "optimal" axis, but if you "flip" the earth the weight distribution change, and this happens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x5U...

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Disappointed that NZ got a little neglected. If we’re right on the equator, shouldn’t we get covered in jungle, not left dry? Would we have still got moa?

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Well… MN still wouldn’t have hurricanes — and probably not earthquakes.

We'd all be sideways.