If the earth were to come to a sudden stop

Question

would the water splash off into space and drench the man on the moon and maybe p**s off the martians?

Answer 1

If all the rocky parts of the Earth ceased spinning suddenly, basically you'd get a tsunami (tidal wave) composed of all the water on Earth sweeping across the land at several thousand miles per hour (relative to the ground).

People at high altitude in airplanes might escape, as well as people living at the poles, but everyone else would be in trouble, as they would be flying sideways at several thousand mph (relative to the ground) as well.

Answer 2

It would be ultimate surfing weather!

Answer 3

Of coarse! By that time I would be divorced and find another way to live in space!  

Answer 4

Haha, no, good question, but its not possible for the earth to just stop. It will NEVER stop, the worst that could happen it the rotation of its axis changes, reverses, poles flip, or some other major thing with electromagnetism involved, but it would never just stop for good. Of course all those I mentioned above would cause global catastrophic change like apocalypitc events.

Answer 5

If that did really happen then most likely each region will be permanently stuck in the same season, climate, time zone and daylight and/or night time.

So it would be summer in the North all year round and winter in the summer all year round.

Hey if Earth did come to a sudden stop in November then it would be disaster because the North would be having winter all year round and the South would be having summer all year round.

Northern winters are harsh because we live near the North Pole which is ice cap, The Northwest Territories and Yukon winter temperatures go low as minus 60 degrees.

Southern summers are harsh but in a different extreme because crops dry out, water evaporates, vegetation's dies, smog and greenhouse gases are so thick and summer temperatures can go as high as the early 40's.

Northern summers aren't that sweltering and we still get crops, vegetation, water and not much smog and greenhouse gases.

Southern winters are perfect because the lowest cold temperature goes low as about 18 degrees which of course is comparable to a cool breezy summer.

Answer 6

Half the world would be in darkness and very cold.

Answer 7

We would all more than likely be spun off into Space

Answer 8

all living thins could die ,but this proess would take a long time maybe two to three months and everthing would be dead.