I am working on a project (The Longest Day), and I'm sure some people here have the necessary knowledge to give me some more usefull info.

OK, here it is:

Lets say that Earth's spinning speed diminishes to 10% of its current speed, causing days to last for 240 hours rather than 24 hours (the length of the year remains the same, the Sun is unaffected, and the Earth remains in the same orbit as it is in today). This happens gradually after a new technology is discovered and used by many countries for a long time. As usual, we abuse this new tech, and this causes the planet to slow down its spinning. Also, the unregulated use of this tech causes some wobble, thus causing mega earthquakes to happen.

Could we still survive on this planet?

How would the climate be affected? How about plant life?

Some ideas of what I have in mind:

I can see some major storms happening, the dark side having a lot of rain and being all muddy, and light side being a scorched desert after some time.

Sunrise and sundown would last very long...

Someone asked recently about the day lasting 48 hours. I'm interested in how things would be if this was heavily exagerated.

posted almost 10 years ago

mcbecker‭

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