Boiling oceans? I'm not getting that, except for the year=day scenario.
Gunn ,'Underneath'
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I'm starting to lean towards an artificially generated shadow field...or "magic."
JenP, many of us can make LJ icons for you, and my screencaps are free to be used by any Buffista. (Besides, I do not own the intellectual property I am screencapping.)
boiling oceans and water swept planet
Cats and dogs, living together...
Wait - if it stopped rotating wouldn't any given point get six months of sun exposure and six months of darkness? The one-face-toward-the-sun option objectively has a year-long day, but subjectively it's either day, night, or twillight forever.
I just did the famous lemon head/rubberband ball experiment.
Yes, we would get a year-long day, as we experience days.
The year=day scenario I mentioned upthread was an apparent sidereal day. Not a solar day.
If I have my esses right.
Boiling oceans came from this random unsubstaniated source (which, on closer inspection, is the year=day scenario of which you speak):
Or, you could stop it totally, and it would point always at the same place in space, but rotate round the sun with a day and night of 6 months each. Either way, under the sun the Oceans would boil again and on the night side the clouds would rain out ice into vast ice sheets. Probably the atmosphere would start to condense on the night side with CO2 ice and perhaps even liquid Nitrogen and Oxygen!
But I like this person better ... 'cause of the flying dog (but not in a mean way):
If the Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock. This means rocks, topsoil, trees, buildings, your pet dog, and so on, would be swept away into the atmosphere.
Because, yeah, essentially we would all go flying off.
That was a rather abrupt transition from Stargate:SG-1 and Atlantis.
the last couple of episodes they have been doing that.
So they were
once part of a vast federation alliance of planets...