If there was a Platonium explosion and the earth tilted 5 more degrees?
819303
All the plutonium in the world will not be enough to rock the earth's tilt (but it would kill most animal and plant life, that's another issue). But to answer your *hypothetical* question, this is what would happen:\n\nEquator: Cooler throughout the year.\nTropics: No change in summers, much cooler winters\nTemperate regions: Very hot summers, very cold winters.\nSubarctic: Hotter summers, colder winters.\nArctic: Much warmer summers, not much change in winters.\n\nSo presumably Antarctic ice would melt and significantly raise ocean levels.
463009
They realise they should have turned right at Warsaw.\n\nSeriously, it would result in enormous climate changes, tectonic plates could be affected resulting in earthquakes, harmful radiation from the sun could seep through - the Earths magnetic field behaves like a shield, hence the northern lights. \n\nPolarity changes have happened before on Earth and scientists believe we are overdue for another one.\n\nSo, something else to add to the list of 'Armageddons' we seem to have stacking up against us. No point worrying really, if one catastrophe doesn't get you, then another one will!
819923
Careful calculations from the MIT Physics and Climatological Research Center in MASS. state unequivocally it would be "immeasurable" and could very well bring on the next Ice Age...the obliteration again of all life as we know it on this planet.\n\nOn the other hand it would be great to see that pathetic, Far Left Wing ACLU Adoring Hyper-Liberal along with Al Franken and of course the Wicked Witch of the West Nancy Pelosi the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Rights Values Champion  disintergrated!
1002597
Possible, esp if this planet could really piss the Almighty...
250942
venus would crush it from the dense atmousphere,, mercury would burn it up, mars could possibly let it survive with a little help,jupiter,saturn,uranus,neptune,pluto would freeze all things
1001017
Our heads would blow up probably.
651257
The immediate effect would be no tides and no large area of high atmospheric pressure toward the moon.  The long-term effect would be the end of life on Earth.  The moon holds the earth's tilt to a small range of precession.  A wobble of only 0.5 degrees created the Sahara desert 6,000 years ago.  Planets with no large moon wobble by 30 degrees or more.  It would cause a climate shifting catastrophe.  Imagine if Texas  received 6 months of sunlight like the north pole.
1178649
we would notice a change right away, the direction and position of where the sun's rays hit are what cause our temperature differences. if we had a drastic 90 degree turn in our axis it would throw off our global climate over the course of a few decades. changes would happen drastically however, and until things settled down over those decades or even centuries we would be in a state of climate-chaos
970160
Yes, I do because Earth is not a closed system. If it were, meteorites would never hit.  I have an interesting comparison (to me at least)  about comets "seeding" the earth....... have you ever noticed that earth resembles an "egg" and comets resemble sperm?  they have heads & tails like sperm...... and the term panspermia......... just a thought.......
709262
Don't forget that large bodies like the earth itself, and the sun, are themselves held together with gravity.\n\nProbably the first thing that we would notice is that the earth would immediately lose its atmosphere as it went flying off the planet into space, as would the oceans.  Everything on the surface of the planet would go flying off due to the centrifugal force of its spinning ... buildings would just rip off their foundations like cheese shaking off a cheese-puff.  Without an atmosphere, it's doubtful you and I would live more than 15 or 30 seconds.\n\nThe earth  would immediately break apart in a big cloud of hot liquid iron (the core of the earth) and all the stuff on the surface.\n\nThe moon would also disolve into a huge cloud of hot rocks and sand.\n\nThe sun would explode rather violently, as the pressure from the burning of the inner core would suddenly have no force counteracting it.  The same would be happening to every star and planet in the universe.  And galaxies themselves would fly apart (as they too are held together with gravity).\n\nAnd yes, what is left of the earth would fly away from what is left of the sun ... although it would be quickly overtaken by the exploding sun.\n\nBut, of course, it ain't gonna happen.  I'll bet everything I own on it.  :-)  \n\nThink of this as a great way to get back in with your girlfriend ... "Hey baby, if gravity were suddenly to disappear, we need to be holdin' each other really tight!"  (You take it from there).
221462
Actually, No.\n\nIf our planet was anything but symetric about the access of rotation, it would develop a tremendous vibration or wobble.  This would lead either to localized forces that would eject people and things beyond the gravitational field, or would result in the complete breakup of the planet itself.\n\nSorry.
1150602
The sun will always rise and set in the same manner regardless of the earth's polarity.  Only the terminolgy would change.
206676
The world would come together in panic ... "Where the &*^^ did the US go?"  Conspiracy theorys would abound.  Tensions would be high - no one would trust anyone else.  Did an experiment go wrong?  Did one country develope an incredible weapon?  Are the aliens finally attacking?  Did God decide simply to wipe them off the face of the earth?  Different groups would claim responsibility -- most of them groups no one has ever heard of.  And all over this great world, there would be office pools involving which country would disappear next.  (My money would be on Akrotiri - but really, if they disappeared, who'd notice?)
633927
If the Tooth Fairy waved her magic wand and ...\nAre you serious?\nDividing the Earth in two parts without damaging the surface would require ... magic.\n(Of course Arthur C. Clarke did once point out that any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic but we're talking an asteroid strike, not super-technology.)\nIf a body large enough to blast the Earth apart struck, there would be nothing presently on the surface that would survive in recognisable form.\nI suppose it's imaginable that two bodies mutually orbiting a common center of gravity, might accrete from the resulting debris. The oceans would have been vaporised. Some water would recondense and wind up on our hypothetical twin Mini-Earths but I imagine on the whole they'd be pretty dry. Bacteria living in deep crustal rocks blown clear of the remains of the planet would probably  survive and as this debris was gravitationally 'swept up' over time by the newly formed pair of mini-Earths life would be re-seeded and we'd be back at 'Square One'.
559137
1. If the Earth's rotation INSTANTLY stopped, everything not fixed to the Earth would continue to rotate around at the same velocity that they were before due to conservation of momentum. To us it would feel like a giant earthquake where the Earth would suddenly start "moving" in the opposite direction of the rotation. Buildings would collapse, the oceans would wash up onto land in large tidal waves, and there would be a large atmospheric wind shear at the surface. (The atmosphere is not attached to the planet either and would keep rotating too). Since we are traveling at about 460 m/s at the equator (about 1000 miles per hour) we would be tossed pretty far. (We wouldn't fly off the earth, though. Escape velocity is much higher.) As my officemate said when I told him about this question "We would be thrown into the wall at 1.5 times the speed of sound as the building was tipped off its foundation." \n\n2. Seismic waves from the impact would travel through the earth causing massive earthquakes. Depending on the size and velocity of the impactor, the earth might even break apart. \n\n3. Much of the atmosphere would be boiled off. A fireball would expand outward destroying material in it's path and polluting the rest of the atmosphere. \n\nThose things would probably kill all life and level everything on the Earth's surface! It would be much worse than the extinction event that may have contributed to dinosaur extinction. \n\nIf we were magically able to stop the Earth with no bad consequences, life on a non-rotating or retrograde (backwards) rotating planet would be very strange. \n\n* On a retrograde rotating planet, the sun and all the stars would rise in the west and set in the east. \n\n* If the rotation was very slow, the day could be very long. This would have a huge effect on plant and animal life on the earth, some of which could not survive many days with no sunlight. \n\nIf there are any physics enthusiasts out there, from knowledge of the mass of the earth, the radius of the earth, the earth's escape velocity (use as impactor velocity), the rotation period of the earth, and the average density of the earth you can calculate a very rough estimate of the size of an impactor needed to stop the earth's rotation. If I assume that the earth collides with an object just sitting in its orbit right at the edge at the equator I get a rough radius of 1600 km for the needed size. In reality, you would probably need something much, much bigger. There are not any objects of this size in the solar system that we don't know about, which means that this scenario can't really happen.
509966
Ummm that's not a real question.\n\nBut, if that happened, you'd end up with someone standing on the earth who observed that small particle moving in a direction opposite the earth's rotation at a speed that could be calculated by:\n\n(radius of the earth)*6.28*(1/30-1/24)
989676
11 times more mass is the threshold for fusion.  Jupiter would then be a brown dwarf, and the solar system would be a binary star system.\n\nIf Jupiter would suddenly become 11 times more massive in its current orbit, then yes it would spiral into the sun ... but even before that happened, a sudden increase by 11x of the gravity of Jupiter, would throw all the orbits of all the planets in the solar system into total chaos.  Depending on where the earth was in its orbit relative to Jupiter, the earth would either be pulled into the sun, or pulled out of its orbit. \n\nNow had Jupiter originally formed 11 times larger, then it would not be in its current orbit, but would be much further away if the solar system were to have planets at all.  The orbits of the other planets would not be as circular.  With a non-circular orbit, it's less likely that life would has evolved quite as well as it has, and there probably wouldn't be any creature talking about this on the Internet.