I love classic sci fi movies, but if some advanced alien being
could make the whole Earth (as opposed to just the man-made
parts) literally stand still, the end results would be nothing
short of catastrophic. You see, because most of Earth’s surface
is covered with water, that water is hugely affected by the
motion of our planet; Earth’s rotation has a potent effect on
the way that water is distributed across our planet’s surface.
Succinctly, Earth looks the way it does because of centrifugal
force. According to geophysicist Witold Fraczek, this is how our
world would look if it were completely stationary. A huge band
of dry land across the planet’s surface, with two vast polar
oceans. The full details are available on ESRI, and are really
quite fascinating. Some part of me has to wonder how things
might fare in the long term if such a bizarre fate were to
somehow befall our world. After all, one of the biggest
differences between Earth and Venus is the fact that our sister
world has a greatly slower rotation