what if?

[Chiliagon]

So, you walk down the street and all of a sudden like out of a science fiction Movie, the sun goes down in seconds, .. which usually takes all day!!

No the sun didn't suddenly burn out or any sort of disaster.. we just had a sudden shift in the planets axle.

So now the sun comes up at 8pm and goes down at 9am each day.. Things are totally backwards..

how do you think we as a society would adapt? how long would it take to change our daily lives to accomodate the totally opposite days.

 

[karrie]

So, you walk down the street and all of a sudden like out of a science fiction Movie, the sun goes down in seconds, .. which usually takes all day!!

No the sun didn't suddenly burn out or any sort of disaster.. we just had a sudden shift in the planets axle.

So now the sun comes up at 8pm and goes down at 9am each day.. Things are totally backwards..

how do you think we as a society would adapt? how long would it take to change our daily lives to accomodate the totally opposite days.

1 week. we'd suffer jet lag, essentially. But we'd adapt, if that was the only ramification.

 

[lone wolf]

It would be easier than adapting for shiftwork....

 

[Chiliagon]

I think that many of our plants would suffer.. millions of years of adaptation to our planet changed in a matter of minutes.

 

[karrie]

I think that many of our plants would suffer.. millions of years of adaptation to our planet changed in a matter of minutes.

If an inversion in daylight is the only thing, I doubt it would make a drastic difference for plants. They are highly adaptable too.

 

[Johnnny]

We would be ****ed, everything would be cold.... No thunder storms after those long warm hot days ..... All the plants above the tropic of cancer and capricorn would be ****ed.

Ice age folks, it would be an ice age that made the Sturtian and Marinoan look like walks in the park

 

[Mowich]

Well this is one that Aftermath missed. :smile:

From the little I know, the shift would affect more than plant life. I think that the oceans would be affected by such a drastic shift, meaning that many areas of the earth would be inundated while others would be left high and dry.

Interesting question.

 

[Chiliagon]

well ya.. cause those countries that are like having the hot days would suddenly go dark! all the power plants would go nuts because all the lights and power sources would have to turned on to provide light to the Cities just like that!

 

[Liberalman]

changing the time would be easier

 

[Johnnny]

the ocean would freeze down to the continental shelfs

 

[Dexter Sinister]

No the sun didn't suddenly burn out or any sort of disaster.. we just had a sudden shift in the planets axle.

And that's NOT a disaster? I expect we'd see globe-girdling tidal waves at the very least. Don't worry about it though, it's not going to happen.

 

[AnnaG]

So, you walk down the street and all of a sudden like out of a science fiction Movie, the sun goes down in seconds, .. which usually takes all day!!

No the sun didn't suddenly burn out or any sort of disaster.. we just had a sudden shift in the planets axle.

So now the sun comes up at 8pm and goes down at 9am each day.. Things are totally backwards..

how do you think we as a society would adapt? how long would it take to change our daily lives to accomodate the totally opposite days.

That depends upon whether you still want daylight savings time or not.

Ohhh! You were asking a serious question. Ignore my first reply then.

Besides the plantlife cycles being upset, animal cycles, seasonal cycles (southern hemisphere would be into summer right now instead of their winter we'd be going into winter, the atmosphere would be in a bit of turmoil, and so on.

Yeah, I'd call it a disaster.

 

[Chiliagon]

haha..

very funny!

I think a few big things would happen.. i'm sure.

 

[spaminator]

i think that if the planet's axis shifted suddenly, there would be major worldwide devestaion.:--?

this was one of the predictions made for december 21, 2012.:-(8O

 

[Johnnny]

when the earth tilts we get the seasons

 

[Chiliagon]

yes, of course.. but a drastic tilt, as if someone grabbed the planet and turns it on it's side all of a sudden!!

so now imagine the continent of North America being 12 hours ahead of itself..

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Forget about the time being backwards, we will have bigger things to worry about. By change in earth’s ‘axle’, I assume you mean change in the axis of rotation.

Such a change will be catastrophic change. Earth will suddenly have to stop moving in one direction and start moving in another direction about another axis, at an angle to the current axis.

If so, what do you think is going to happen to all the loose objects on the surface of the planet? People, cars, animals, etc.? What will happen to the water in the oceans (somebody mentioned tidal waves)? We are talking of a catastrophe of global proportions.

In this respect, you may wish to read a story by H.G.Wells, 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles’ (or similar name). In that, he has vividly described what would happen if the earth suddenly stopped rotating (the man who could work miracles say to the earth, "jes’ stop rotating, will you?” and earth does).

So very few of us will be alive to worry about whether it is 8 p.m. or 9 a.m.

 

[AnnaG]

Ya think, Shirley Holmes? roflmao

 

[Chiliagon]

yea I heard the radio version of that Book/Movie. I am curious to see it.

 

[karrie]

yes, of course.. but a drastic tilt, as if someone grabbed the planet and turns it on it's side all of a sudden!!

so now imagine the continent of North America being 12 hours ahead of itself..

If it's merely a matter of us being 12 hours ahead, everything would adjust. Look at the plants in North America, they're very used to drastic changes in condition. Sunny and warm one day, dark and snowing the next. They fluctuate from hours upon hours of sunlight to hardly any at all. They are adaptable.