We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.

    • Labonnie@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      But OP asked a different question. Not what happens when earth stops spinning but what happens when earth spins in the other direction.

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    1 year ago

    Only a change in rotational speed would be bad. If earth were to rotate in the opposite direction since the beginning it would behave just like today.

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      1 year ago

      That was my thought. The only major change I could see happening (besides the cataclysmic events from the change) is the direction of sunrise/sunset.

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        1 year ago

        Exactly

        Proof: define Antarctica as North. Now earth is rotating in the other direction.