i read somewhere that if the solar system got filled with oxygen, the planets would first stop spinning cuz of friction (that and then everything would fall onto the sun or smthng) but oxygen already exists on earth, so how is the earth still spinning?
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It affect us, quite not like you would think.
There is an effect between the earth rotating and the atmosphere and it does something that’s very well known : the coriolis effect.
It’s one of the reason the usa has tornados hitting the east coast and not the west coast. It also affect in which direction they rotate (counterclockwise in the usa).
Imagine the atmosphere doesn’t move as fast as the earth at the equator line because it tends to stay in place and is not attached to it. This creates an east to west wind. (This wind is more complex that this, but it explains the basics)
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