What If Earth Started Spinning Twice as Fast Right Now?

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[lukeweingart]

person: “i’ve tried everything to lose weight”

me: “did you try making the earth rotate twice as fast”

[jacob.daymude]

I like how at 2:32 literally half of africa is underwater and he just says kenya.

[MegaPurp]

“Instead of getting 8 hours of sleep, most people would be getting 4 hours of sleep”
Well, looks like I’ve already adapted to the new rotation speed

[coolingheat]

Earth: I’m spinning faster now!!
Jupiter: that’s cute...

[DrumApe]

The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.

[mrkitloin]

>Buy gold in africa
>Sell gold in one of the poles (its heavier up there)
> buy more from africa
> ???
> profit

[lagoz]

0:07
how dare you assume i live on earth.

[linhlephamkhanh]

I love the rotation of the Earth. It really makes my day

[xoxrissa]

730 days?
No thank you. I can barely make it through 365.

[andymanson]

“To be accurate, 730 days.” To be even more accurate, 730.5 days.

[Gamingetic]

0:59 “45 kilograms at the north pole.” *shows Antarctica*

[masoncarter]

Real Life Lore: everybody watching this lives on earth
Aliens martians and astronauts : that’s racist

[ASRAPG]

What If Earth Started Spinning Slower Than Right Now? At half of the speed.

[sirajkhalil]

This means you'll receive your salary twice per month

[cbarre]

So, just have a sleep day, and a awake day.


And don't live in the equator

[nohama]

For a bigger experience, play this video at 2x speed .

[flybeep]

You neglect to mention that if water gets drawn to the equator sinking significant parts of Africa, Australia and South America then that water needs to come from somewhere. Which means significant portions of coast and land get way bigger above and below the equator.

[stephen]

Forgot to mention what would happen if the earth started spinning twice as fast instantaneously. Because of Newton's first law of motion, the earth would start spinning twice as fast but our bodies will still want to travel at the original speed. This is because everything with mass has inertia. As a result of this instantaneous speed difference, most of us would just hit something traveling a thousand MPH faster and we would all die. Thanks physics.

[Cartmanwesome]

But what would happen to all the toyota corollas?

[maryalice]

I already get four hours of sleep though