What If Earth Stopped Spinning?

Right now you're moving at hundreds of kilometers per hour and you don't feel a thing. So what if Earth just stopped spinning? We try it twice: once all at once, and once so slowly that nobody notices for generations. One is a disaster. The other is just very strange. Chapters 0:00 Intro: you are moving very fast 0:38 A few numbers and two sets of rules 1:25 Sudden stop: the first second 2:15 Sudden stop: the air keeps going 3:05 Sudden stop: the oceans slosh 3:48 The verdict on version one 4:23 Version two: the slow stop 5:10 Earth's bulge 5:59 A brand-new map 6:43 One day lasts a year 7:34 Weather on a stopped planet 8:27 Strange little side effects 9:15 The magnetic field question 10:09 Reality check and wrap-up Sources: UCSB Geography, what if Earth stopped spinning: https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/what-wou... NASA, Earth fact sheet: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary... American Meteorological Society, the 408 km/h wind record: https://headlines.ametsoc.org/2010/02... Esri ArcUser, mapping an Earth that stopped spinning: https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/a... Hong Kong Observatory, why hurricanes don't form at the equator: https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/education/t... Astronomy.com, what creates a planet's magnetic field: https://www.astronomy.com/science/pre... Sky & Telescope, why Venus has no magnetic field: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy...