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How much does NASCAR affect the rotation of the Earth? [duplicate]
Many of us will be familiar with XKCD 162: Angular Momentum, in which someone spins counterclockwise to slow down the rotation of the earth and make the night longer.
The mass of an individual human ...
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Could enough people spin Earth backwards faster than they could run? [duplicate]
So, consider the theoretical situation in which the earth is no longer spinning, and we want to spin it up by running in the opposite direction (Yes, this question was inspired by the Nike commercial)....
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Can humans control rotation of the Earth?
I'm a class 12th student and this thought just struck me from nowhere.
Assume a situation where every human on this planet turns towards west. All of them start walking simultaneously in west ...
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How much effort would be required to fix the Earth's rotation?
Given that the earth's rotation has been slowing down by very slight amounts over time, forcing us to introduce leap seconds and so forth into our clocks and calendars, I would like to ask if this ...
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How much energy is necessary to set a year to exactly 360 days
How much energy would be necessary to slow down Earth rotation such that a year was 360 days long?
In the same spirit: how much energy would be necessary to make the Earth rotate faster around the ...
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Effect on length of day as the polar ice caps melt
If the polar ice caps of the Earth melt, how will the length of the day be affected?
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