What If The Earth Spun Sideways On Its Axis

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Published 2019-07-10
The Earth already spins on a slight tilt, causing the seasons. If it spun horizontally, extreme winters and summers would doom life as we know it.

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What If The Earth Spun Sideways On Its Axis

All Comments (21)
  • @janboanner2475
    “Active in day, sleep at night” laughs in depression
  • I thought this is a Kurzgesagt video because of the thumbnail XD
  • @MRRAli
    I sleep during work. And in class when i was in college. My melatonin production is during daytime. So seasonal affective disorder won't affect me.
  • @konmonglo8348
    Seasonal Affective Disorder Which commonly known as SAD
  • It’s fascinating how everything was lined up perfectly for us to exist, even the angle of the tilt. Just imagine the odds of it all.
  • @BloobFace
    today I learned that 61 meters is almost as much as 56.7 meters
  • @neosapien5900
    Science insider : Winter is coming! Me : won't fall for that again.
  • @jeiku5314
    *snows in rio The world already ended before we tilted the Earth sideways.
  • What if instead it tilted in a way that was perfectly up? No tilt at all.
  • "What if this suddenly happened?" But that's boring the real question is "What if it was always like this?" The answer to one is obvious "bad stuff" but the second is much more interesting
  • @kaafila6698
    Australia would get to experience being upright for once.
  • @RetrogradeBeats
    Flat earthers thinks regular people living in Alaska are lying about the 24hr daylight. 😂
  • @bleezecake
    Seasonal Affective Disorder Well that’s SAD.
  • @Luna-4L0n5
    When the North Pole melts, wouldn't the South Pole freeze even more? And vice versa. And how would this affect the flooding? Cause, as far as i know, ice is more "compact" than water (the molecules are more tightly packed, thus smaller (or more compact)). Since the southern hemisphere has a lot more water, that water freezing would free up space for liquid water (using the aforementioned things as the logic behind this), so by this (probably false) logic, wouldn't the sea levels decrease a bit (although, as the North Pole melts, the ice expands into liquid water and takes more space, but i would think it doesn't take that much more space compared to how much space is being freed up by the freezing of the southern hemisphere)? If the South Pole melts, it will flood. Does this make any sense? This doesn't take into account much but i think has some sense in it at least, enough to consider it's affects.