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.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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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...
That guy is no Chief O'Brien! Shepard is such a little guy, maybe that's why he gets no respect.
God, I love Cold Lazarus. I think I'm just a little Jack-shipper. Jack-ho. Whatever.
They really wasted the use of Colm Meany, didn't they?
Oh my God. McKay and Sheppard are so cute together I could just die!!
Ahem.
That was some good banter, y'all. The writers are doing a great job playing up to David Hewitt's strength (neurotic wiseass). And God help me, I am charmed by Sheppard, despite my knee-jerk antipathy to cocky jocks. I even liked Teyla in this. Huh.
The scene in which Weir scolded Sheppard and Ford with "I just sent you guys for some food!" was priceless. They looked like a couple of 10 year old boys getting a scolding from their Mama. Heh.
Dude, Sam totally needs to have an affair with Alec.