Name: What If Earth Started Spinning Backwards?
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T08:05:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 18 s
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it would no longer be the Earth as we know it.

460 meters per second (1,509 feet per second)

Together, these abnormal weather conditions

would wipe out nearly everything above the ground.

Let's just skip over this destroying transition.

Imagine our planet reversed its direction billions of years ago.

You'd see the Sun and the Moon rise in the west

And you'd never believe that the Sahara could be a desert.

How different would our planet turn out to be?

Short answer - the reversed spin would make the Earth much greener.

this new rotation would change winds and ocean currents,

and that would shift the planet's climate entirely.

distributing the Sun's heat all over the Earth.

They divert moisture from the driest, hottest badlands

one very important climate-driving current

Instead, a different current would surface in the Pacific

and become responsible for distributing heat around the globe.

This new current would make the deserts retreat from Africa and Eurasia.

You'd have to go to the other side of the planet

to do some quad biking on the golden landscape.

The U.S. would also get very arid in the south.

But none of the new barrens would be anywhere close

There'd be much more vegetation covering the planet.

But those living in Western Europe would be in for a shock.

The Pacific current would push a lot of cold water that way,

and take a break from being the coldest country on Earth.

Life on the reverse spinning Earth would be different, too.

In the oceans, cyanobacteria would dominate over other phytoplankton species.

Billions of years ago, the oxygen-pumping cyanobacteria

Maybe having so much more cyanobacteria on Earth

filling it up with too much oxygen for us to even exist.

Let's just leave our planet to spin the way it does.

And what if it stops rotating altogether?

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What If Earth Started Spinning Backwards?

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