Re: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning?

gb wrote: on, 15/05/2008 16:47:
> Without thinking, it 'feels' to me that the Moon would drop into
> Earth, that the rotation of Earth
> has gravity weakening effects. One of those Hollywood moments where
> things stall, and
> then two bodies attract. But things wouldn't stall completely.
> 
> According to theories it is the contrary. Spinning adds to gravity,
> more noticable in spiral
> galaxies where this dark matter is 9 times the visible mass.


Piss off