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v=K0-GxoJ_Pcg

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. The Earth is ___________and we are


___________ along with it. But what if the Earth ___________ stopped
spinning?
Well, first of all, you would gain ___________. But that would be the
___________of your worries. The spin of our planet is important and
literally ___________ you the time of your life. At the equator, the
___________, and everything on it, is spinning around at 465 meters per
second. As you move closer to the poles ______________________to
complete Earths daily rotation. Here in San Francisco, the Earth is
___________me east at 368 meters per second. If I could float
___________ the surface independent of the Earth's rotation, the Earth
would spin ___________ me this quickly. Pretty cool. But, of course, when
I jump ___________into the air, the Earth doesn't move ___________ me
because I continued to spin with it.
_________________________________ and that is why slamming on a
set of magical ___________that caused everything classically called earth
to stop Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. The Earth is ___________and we are
___________ along with it. But what if the Earth ___________ stopped
spinning?
Well, first of all, you would gain ___________. But that would be the
___________of your worries. The spin of our planet is important and
literally ___________ you the time of your life. At the equator, the
___________, and everything on it, is spinning around at 465 meters per
second. As you move closer to the poles ______________________to
complete Earths daily rotation. Here in San Francisco, the Earth is
___________me east at 368 meters per second. If I could float
___________ the surface independent of the Earth's rotation, the Earth
would spin ___________ me this quickly. Pretty cool. But, of course, when
I jump ___________into the air, the Earth doesn't move ___________ me
because I continued to spin with it.
_________________________________ and that is why slamming on a
set of magical ___________that caused everything classically called earth
to stop spinning would be catastrophic. Immediately everything that
wasn't Earth, ______________________, would continue moving, as it
had been, and be flung due east at more than a thousand miles an hour.
You wouldn't be flung into space because escape velocity is 24,800 mph
but _________________________________ a 9.5 inch caliber bullet. Well,
really more of a supersonic tumbleweed. Because the atmosphere would
more ______________________, people in airplanes, assuming they could
navigate the resulting storms, might have a better chance of
___________. Astronauts aboard the ISS would fare even better. But it is
___________ that anyone would be waiting for them down on the
ground. Runways would just be entrances to the new planet-sized
___________, created by the no longer spinning Earth.
_________________________________might be okay but only at first.
Gusts of wind, as fast as those near an atomic bomb detonation, would
blast, _________________________________forming worldwide storms
of unprecedented magnitude. The friction alone, caused by the now
stopped Earth colliding with these winds, would be enough to cause
______________________, unparalleled erosion and damage to anything
strong enough to stay put after the initial braking. The Sun would seem to
___________ in the sky as days became not 24 hours long but 365 days
long.

1. What question tries to answer this video?


2. What would be the first thing that would happen to you if the earth
stopped? And the second thing?
3. Who would have the best chance of surviving in this situation?
4. Which natural catastrophes would occur in this situation?

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