What would life be like if the earth rotated every 2 hours instead of 24.

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Posted: 8/23/2017 11:54:24 AM EST

Hour of daylight... Hour of darkness... Hour of daylight... Hour of darkness... Etc.

Posted: 8/23/2017 11:55:07 AM EST

[#1]

Sounds hectic.

Posted: 8/23/2017 11:55:20 AM EST

[#2]

Well, God didn't design it that way so no need think about it

Posted: 8/23/2017 11:56:59 AM EST

[#3]

There would have to be anchor points all over Earth to hold on to since we'd be spinning so fast!

Posted: 8/23/2017 11:58:21 AM EST

[#4]

Jack Bauer would have died of a heart attack

Posted: 8/23/2017 11:59:23 AM EST

[#5]

as an oppressor of marginalized peoples, I would use the darkness to oppress them more

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:00:49 PM EST

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When Yosemite finally blows up it might act like a rocket thruster and increase the earth's rotation

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:02:47 PM EST

[#7]

That depends, did it go from 24 to 2 hour rotations or has it always been that way for as long as anyone alive could tell?

If it always was that way we would be used to it and the thought of a 24 hour day would seem just as absurd.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:05:25 PM EST

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Whatever life there would be had better have a firm grip on things. Have you considered what it would do to winds and tides?

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:06:32 PM EST

[#9]

Life would have evolved much differently so who knows.

Humans as we know them wouldn't exist.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:07:52 PM EST

[#10]

We'd have a Sunday dinner end on Tuesday.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:10:10 PM EST

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I lol'd

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:10:17 PM EST

[#12]

Spinning that fast, I'm sure Guam would flip over.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:14:42 PM EST

[#13]

It would get old real fast.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:15:09 PM EST

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Posted: 8/23/2017 12:15:15 PM EST

[#15]

It would definitely be faster.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:17:10 PM EST

[#16]

Friend yesterday after discussing the eclipse told me the earth is stationary and everything revolves around it Because we've been deceived by helio centric sun worshipping lies. And that man has to hide the firmament in order to hide God

And that Morley and michaelson did a test and found the earth didn't move and Einstein was brought in to refute them with a theory.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:17:30 PM EST

[#17]

I would not have to spend as much on NVD batteries.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:22:07 PM EST

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Depending where you are, you'd have to spend more on batteries. 12 hours vs the normal 6-10 here in PA.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:24:18 PM EST

[#19]

have to have a counterbalance on your watch for the micro second hand

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:27:08 PM EST

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No, you wouldn't fly off.

There is, however, a chance that Coriolis force would overcome gravity and the EARTH might come apart.

The best way to see this in quasi action is that video where they show how fast the Earth would go without the Moon as its rotational anchor.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:28:04 PM EST

[#21]

Women and children...you'd have to lead them quite a bit more.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:30:05 PM EST

[#22]

Sounds like a good What If topic for XKCD...

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:31:42 PM EST

[#23]

Well, the Earth is flat and the Sun revolves around it, so there's that.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:32:15 PM EST

[#24]

Would Chuck Norris allow it? I don't think so.

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:50:52 PM EST

[#25]

Fuuuuuuucccccccccck!!!!

Posted: 8/23/2017 12:54:16 PM EST

[#26]

I'm guessing life never would have happened, and possibly the planet never would have happened at that velocity.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:28:58 PM EST

[#27]

Earth's "day" was as short as 6 hours long or so, in the time after the Mars-sized impactor blew a chunk off of us and the debris started forming the Moon.

New findings by some brilliant grad students even discovered that the much larger molten Earth was still so hot, it acted like a second "sun" to the Moon, heating the earth-facing side so much that all the dark Lava "seas" on the Moon are on the side we see to this day.

And the Moon itself was also much closer, about 90% of the way closer. Only about 3-5 Earth radii away, or about 30,000 miles. Today it's about 60 Earth radii or 30 diameters away. Which also explains why the Earth could actually heat the side of the Moon so much it helped keep lava flowing there. We know it couldn't have been any closer than three Earth radii though, because the Moon would have been a "ring" and never been able to form a solid body, because that's inside the Roche limit, where tidal forces are too great for any large body to hold together.

The tides were ENORMOUS. There presumably wasn't liquid water on the Earth until millions of years later when the surface was cool enough, and the Moon had drifted out a bit by then, but was still probably more than 75% of the way in. If/when there was enough water, the tides were on the order of being miles high. Although the fact that the crust or land, if there was any exposed then would have been moving miles upward too with the tide, which would have compensated a bit.

By comparison though, by the end of the Dinosaurs, about 65 million years ago, the Earth's "day" was somewhere between 21 and 23 hours long. The moon was closer too, but not so close it would have seemed that noticeably bigger.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:36:20 PM EST

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Multiple volcanoes have already blown up without an increase in the earth's rotation.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:41:43 PM EST

[#29]

We would be too damn close together.

On the other hand, the population on the planet would be much smaller. Also thirstier.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:43:17 PM EST

[#30]

Muh garden!

More frequent sex!

Moar endless nights.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:46:05 PM EST

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In all seriousness, It's only 85 minutes to orbit in LEO, so if the Earth spun this fast it would probably be outside it's Roche limit and fly apart.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:51:29 PM EST

[#32]

You would go mad. Has someone been playing Rescue on Fratalaus again.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:52:33 PM EST

[#33]

I think that life would simply move 12 times faster. If it takes 60 seconds to get dressed in 24 hour / day world, it would take 5 seconds in 2 hr / day world.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:56:28 PM EST

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I suspect if it span that fast then the relatively weak forces of gravity would be largely or entirely negated by the centrifugal force. I'm sure someone knows the answer to this. What is it?

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:59:50 PM EST

[#35]

It would be like a really disappointing discotheque where everyone would get dizzy and throw up the Quaalude's and coke.

Posted: 8/23/2017 1:59:54 PM EST

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The Sabbath would be only two hours long.

Posted: 8/23/2017 2:01:01 PM EST

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Posted: 8/23/2017 2:03:29 PM EST

[#38]

Watched interstellar the other day, they were taking about 68 hours of light followed by 67 hours of darkness. Weird to think about

Posted: 8/23/2017 2:05:35 PM EST

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Quite the opposite.

It would still be gravitationally bound to the Earth and thus would actually SLOW the earth's rotational period down, much as an ice skater extends their arms when spinning to slow down, or conversely, pull their arms in to speed up.

Counter intuitive, isn't it?

Posted: 8/23/2017 2:06:04 PM EST

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Well that brings up the question......How do we know that the guy who invented time didnt get it wrong?

Posted: 8/23/2017 2:06:51 PM EST

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Posted: 8/23/2017 2:11:00 PM EST

[#42]

Would NODS be LESS useful or MORE useful?

I would prolly masturbate more.

Posted: 8/23/2017 2:13:16 PM EST

[#43]

The earth does not rotate. If it did, any object would increase in weight the further away it moved from the equator due to the decrease in the effect of centrifugal force, which is strongest at the equator of a rotating sphere.