(Or at least cause a really big explosion.)
The following facts are from What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by xkcd creator Randall Munroe.
Randall Munroe / WHAT IF?: Serious Cientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Q: What would happen if the Earth and all terrestrial objects suddenly stopped spinning, but the atmosphere retained its velocity?
A: If the Earth stopped and the air didn't, the result would be a sudden thousand-mile-per-hour wind.
The wind would be highest at the equator, but everyone and everything living between 42 degrees north and 42 degrees south — which includes about 85 percent of the world's population — would suddenly experience supersonic winds.
The highest winds would last for only a few minutes near the surface; friction with the ground would slow them down. However, those few minutes would be long enough to reduce virtually all human structures to ruins.
Randall Munroe / WHAT IF?: Serious Cientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“‘420 blaze it!’ I exclaim as I watch your house burn down.” Mild spoilers, but you’ve had 15 years.
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Paramount Pictures / Via xspookyparentis.tumblr.com
Paramount Pictures / Via xspookyparentis.tumblr.com
60 years of “hipsters .
It instantly searches these books as far back as the 1500's and maps their amount of usage over time. Sometimes this yields interesting results, like words that come and go into language with different meanings.
More people were using the word 'hipster' in the 1950's than they are now.
So basically, the word was, like, so much cooler before everyone started using it... like in the 1940's.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. People in 1909 knew it too.
Seems like Seattle has a moment in the popular imagination every few decades. But the "grunge" era is when people really started writing about the city... and then lost interest around 2001.
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