why isn’t the earth affected by friction?

Question

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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Answer 1

The friction between the solid Earth and the gaseous atmosphere means the atmosphere is spinning with the Earth. Neither is travelling through oxygen.