What If the Earth Was Tidally Locked to the Sun?
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Date: 2023-11-26
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Anonymous
What if.
The Pacific Ocean was the side tidally locked. We-d then have most of the land to build enclosed colonies on, including building what were EXTREMELY large greenhouses to still produce our own food. (Although most of the biodiversity would be basically become non-existent, including with domesticated animals. Cattle and horses would be gone, but goats, sheep, chickens, and pigs might be sustainable since they need less room/less food than cows)
Water would be harvested from the Night Side-s ice and distilled to remove the salt and other impurities. And even with the water on the Day side evaporated into vapor? Well, just condense the vapor back into liquid.
Ecology would then become trying to maintain the stable portions of the land/preventing erosion from the winds, NOT poisoning the ice and water vapor, and trying to reduce emissions that might make the weather even WORSE (and punch a hole in what-s left of the atmosphere.
On a plus, solar and wind energy would probably make up 90% or so, and they-d actually get serious about creating ways of converting the collected energy into batteries for ventures off into the Night Side to collect ice.
Astronomy would also boom since there-s now an entire region permanently free of light pollution. aaaand they-re now desperate to find a more habitable planet, as thus far all the ones discovered aren-t any better than even Hell Earth, and requiring MUCH more resources to reach/terraform than just hunkering down in enclosed colonies on Earth and rationing resources.
Which then leads to a boom in advancements in space travel, as to even get anywhere you-d need to go a LOT faster.
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What if.
The Pacific Ocean was the side tidally locked. We-d then have most of the land to build enclosed colonies on, including building what were EXTREMELY large greenhouses to still produce our own food. (Although most of the biodiversity would be basically become non-existent, including with domesticated animals. Cattle and horses would be gone, but goats, sheep, chickens, and pigs might be sustainable since they need less room/less food than cows)
Water would be harvested from the Night Side-s ice and distilled to remove the salt and other impurities. And even with the water on the Day side evaporated into vapor? Well, just condense the vapor back into liquid.
Ecology would then become trying to maintain the stable portions of the land/preventing erosion from the winds, NOT poisoning the ice and water vapor, and trying to reduce emissions that might make the weather even WORSE (and punch a hole in what-s left of the atmosphere.
On a plus, solar and wind energy would probably make up 90% or so, and they-d actually get serious about creating ways of converting the collected energy into batteries for ventures off into the Night Side to collect ice.
Astronomy would also boom since there-s now an entire region permanently free of light pollution. aaaand they-re now desperate to find a more habitable planet, as thus far all the ones discovered aren-t any better than even Hell Earth, and requiring MUCH more resources to reach/terraform than just hunkering down in enclosed colonies on Earth and rationing resources.
Which then leads to a boom in advancements in space travel, as to even get anywhere you-d need to go a LOT faster.
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Ranga
Poor effort. The video makes no effort to describe what will happen if earth was tidally locked at its current position.
Universe sandbox simulation shows only mild increase in average temperature and redistribution of the ice caps. No where gets heated up above 50C or below -70C because of the cooling / heating effwct of atmosphere.
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Poor effort. The video makes no effort to describe what will happen if earth was tidally locked at its current position.
Universe sandbox simulation shows only mild increase in average temperature and redistribution of the ice caps. No where gets heated up above 50C or below -70C because of the cooling / heating effwct of atmosphere.
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Kelly
It's not clear, based on the latest research, the dark side would freeze solid. There would be a fair amount of atmospheric heat transfer by convection.
It's also possible life could persist under the ice, between hydrothermal vents, volcanism, & transport of nutrients by wind from the hot side.
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It's not clear, based on the latest research, the dark side would freeze solid. There would be a fair amount of atmospheric heat transfer by convection.
It's also possible life could persist under the ice, between hydrothermal vents, volcanism, & transport of nutrients by wind from the hot side.
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CaptainDuckman
if the earth would stop rotating it would still not be tidally locked, as its rotation around the sun would still (slowly) cause the sun to rise and set. We'd have a day/night cycle lasting exactly one year.
The effect would be similar to what we see on Mercury.
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if the earth would stop rotating it would still not be tidally locked, as its rotation around the sun would still (slowly) cause the sun to rise and set. We'd have a day/night cycle lasting exactly one year.
The effect would be similar to what we see on Mercury.
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Apache
Would a tidally locked Earth even have a stable moon? The interaction of the moon with Earth would compete with the Sun's tidal grip. Perhaps the result is the moon slowly loosing speed and getting pulled in eventually falling to Earth?
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Would a tidally locked Earth even have a stable moon? The interaction of the moon with Earth would compete with the Sun's tidal grip. Perhaps the result is the moon slowly loosing speed and getting pulled in eventually falling to Earth?
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Faran
The thing is, whether we would be alive at that time (it's highly likely that we would be) or not, it's such a slow process that evolution will catch up with it, and that's great news for life on Earth. Life, uh, finds a way.
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The thing is, whether we would be alive at that time (it's highly likely that we would be) or not, it's such a slow process that evolution will catch up with it, and that's great news for life on Earth. Life, uh, finds a way.
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Jeroen
It is a bit like what is happening on earth now: the global elite is plundering the eatth and its people and the exploited nations (dark side) are getting poorer. Immigratiin will cause the G7 to be swamped.
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It is a bit like what is happening on earth now: the global elite is plundering the eatth and its people and the exploited nations (dark side) are getting poorer. Immigratiin will cause the G7 to be swamped.
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Cesare
If Earth was tidally locked, one side would be too hot for life, whilst the other side would be too cold for life. A planetary habitable zone would be created in the middle, which life could flourish there.
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If Earth was tidally locked, one side would be too hot for life, whilst the other side would be too cold for life. A planetary habitable zone would be created in the middle, which life could flourish there.
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fighter5583
Technically, wouldn't this be what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? As far as I've seen, the moon still exists in this video. You would need to get rid of that first.
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Technically, wouldn't this be what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? As far as I've seen, the moon still exists in this video. You would need to get rid of that first.
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Troll
Master Skywalker, The Sun is too big. What will we do?
a: raid the jedi temple
b: kill Qui-Gon Jinn
c: execute order 66
d: -It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground! -
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Master Skywalker, The Sun is too big. What will we do?
a: raid the jedi temple
b: kill Qui-Gon Jinn
c: execute order 66
d: -It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground! -
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Fred
After we exit our Main Sequence phase, and exhaust our core hydrogen, Sol will expand to a red giant and fry The Earth.
At that point, tidal locking will not be a major concern.
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After we exit our Main Sequence phase, and exhaust our core hydrogen, Sol will expand to a red giant and fry The Earth.
At that point, tidal locking will not be a major concern.
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lothean
Yes, they did a scenario of the earth rotation stopping. 6 months of darkness and 6 months of pure heat. Millions died and cities flooded. But we survived. But humans can adapt
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Yes, they did a scenario of the earth rotation stopping. 6 months of darkness and 6 months of pure heat. Millions died and cities flooded. But we survived. But humans can adapt
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devon
What if only the core of the Earth were tidally locked with the sun? . and the surface spins around the core as the Earth moves through space, kind of like it's rolling.
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What if only the core of the Earth were tidally locked with the sun? . and the surface spins around the core as the Earth moves through space, kind of like it's rolling.
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kaleem
3: 05 -What if one day the earth stopped rotating all together- - That's exactly what tidally locked means and it's not a question for another what if.
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3: 05 -What if one day the earth stopped rotating all together- - That's exactly what tidally locked means and it's not a question for another what if.
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Gill
What if humans could travel at the speed of light
What if humans could survive extreme temperature
What if humans could survive in vacuum
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What if humans could travel at the speed of light
What if humans could survive extreme temperature
What if humans could survive in vacuum
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Robert
-As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. - Genesis 8: 22.
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-As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. - Genesis 8: 22.
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Sammy
One side of the earth will be venus and the other side of the earth would be uranus but the middle will be like Exoplanet Kepler-22b
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One side of the earth will be venus and the other side of the earth would be uranus but the middle will be like Exoplanet Kepler-22b
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Adzen
So just stay at the middle do you can feel cold and heat or just be little far from the heat so you can feel heat and cold together
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So just stay at the middle do you can feel cold and heat or just be little far from the heat so you can feel heat and cold together
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jack
But there would likely be more land where that twilight zone was. Given all the water evaporated on the other side.
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But there would likely be more land where that twilight zone was. Given all the water evaporated on the other side.
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AK
Surely the storms you mentioned would push the hotter and colder air around rather than it freezing and boiling away?
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Surely the storms you mentioned would push the hotter and colder air around rather than it freezing and boiling away?
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Brandon
Just go on the bright side at night smh. Come on what if I don-t wanna be the one thinking of everything.
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Just go on the bright side at night smh. Come on what if I don-t wanna be the one thinking of everything.
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4NX13TY
H. G. Wells described it marvelously in The Time Machine. Really gives you the dread of unending sunset
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H. G. Wells described it marvelously in The Time Machine. Really gives you the dread of unending sunset
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