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What If Earth Rotated in the Other Direction?
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I started to read the article but then decided, why bother? First off it only resets the Earth’s rotation from 7,000 years ago and not from its formation. Also any changes exist only because that which is, never was so the “Changes” are meaningless outside the context of the change itself. If you lived on the reverse Earth it would be all that you know and we would have perceived it as what is. Now if the Earth had exhibited a history of reversing rotation this might be important but absent that, who cares? So all the great insights that basically boil down to “it would be different”, well no duh.
Walrus’s cynicsm is well taken, as well as well expressed.
Colin Copernicus would take a knee.
I hear he’s a first round draft choice.
[In Gov LePetomaine voice:]
“Subtle! I like that!”
If they could map the implications of the Earth’s magnetic field flipping that would at least be relevant.