Aftermath When The Earth Stops Spinning(full documentary)HD

0:02 welcome to a brand new world a world where the Earth doesn't spin where every night is 6 months long while here in Miami we're being blanketed by snow again today and every day is 6 months too and the planet is scorched by a Relentless Sun today's solar radiation index is extem extremely high it's a world where cities have been swallowed by the Sea and others have been all but deserted the air too thin to breathe it's a world where we Face A desperate future struggling to survive in an alien

0:49 landscape come this way this is the story of what could happen if the planet suddenly stop spinning and how on Earth Earth changing one thing changes everything it's a fundamental fact Planet spin our solar system was born 4 and a half million years ago from a spinning cloud of gas and

1:35 dust as they formed the planets borrowed some of that early Spin and they've kept most of it to this day at our Equator the Earth is turning at more than 1,600 km an hour the Earth is gradually slowing going down about 2 seconds every 100,000 years but today that slowdown is going to speed up it will take 5 years and by the end the Earth will have stopped spinning

2:22 completely what would happen to our oceans our continents the air we [Music] breathe what would happen to us on day one the change in the speed of our rotation is practically unnoticeable less than a kilometer an hour but the results are dramatic at Miami International Airport the first sign of trouble Miami Tower American 553 just

3:08 turned on Final most commercial aircraft navigate with the help of GPS GPS relies on a series of satellites which tell an aircraft where it is the ground bases the satellites communicate with and not where the satellites assume they'll be GPS doesn't expect the Earth's spin to change so dramatically the slowing Earth wrecks the carefully calibrated system the effects are catastrophic American 721 AB boarding approach repeat AB boarding computers direct planes to land far from

3:55 airports hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk as planes around the world suddenly discover their navigation systems don't [Music] work scientists have confirmed an erratic reduction in the Earth's rotation some are even suggesting it will stop spinning in as little as 5 years if it does the results will be disastrous scientists are predicting no country will be spared in the first week the problems mount in cities across the globe the days are getting steadily longer each one different from the one

4:41 before seconds and minutes will soon become hours and days the $ 36 trillion World stock market is in freef fall today uncertainty about what will happen has shattered investor confidence what will happen to a 24hour day world if it's longer than 24 [Music] hours after 2 weeks the world's spin has slowed by nearly 15 km an hour and the Chain Reaction gains speed commercial Aviation has been reduced to

5:27 essential Services only with the record 470 accidents worldwide time is the first problem on an earth that is slowly losing its spin but after 2 weeks there's a new even more critical problem the oceans our planet bulges it's fatter in the middle than at the poles our spin is one of the forces that keeps the water in place on top of the Equator but as that Force weakens the oceans begin to

6:18 move Seas start flowing away from the bulging equator towards the poles more than a billion cubic kilm of ocean are on the move Northern places like the Canadian Arctic are the Canary in the coine 3 months after the Earth begins to slow down water creeps over Arctic Shores like an overflowing bathtub sea levels continue to rise and the Canadian government has ordered a full scale evacuation of the [Applause] Arctic and there's another dangerous effect on a slowing Earth as sea levels change the air we breathe is changing

7:09 too our atmosphere is evenly spread across the planet and it rotates in sync with the earth now with our spin slowing the atmosphere follows the oceans flowing towards the poles among the first hit a cities in the tropics including Rio Mumbai and Singapore it's getting increasingly Hard to Breathe Here further north cities at higher

7:56 elevations are also beginning to struggle in the United States people climbing in Colorado experience the effect dramatically altitudes of 1500 M are now like breathing at 4500 humans get altitude sickness at less than 2500 M just over 5,000 m is the outer limit of survival [Music] son the world is changing quickly and

8:43 the worst is yet to [Music] come four months have passed since the earth started losing its spin we're now spinning more than 225 km an hour slower than we used to each day is almost 28 hours long meaning two more hours of daylight and two more of Darkness slipping time has thrown our

9:31 world the oceans and the atmosphere into chaos officials in Russia report that that country's vast oil fields are now underwater leaving that country with a fuel emergency just as winter approaches in most of the United States flooding and thin air are not yet Taking Lives people are coping but suddenly all over the world there's a new deadly

10:23 problem earthquakes occur where there have never been earthquakes before the Earth has three layers A molten core a solid insulating mantle and a hard outer crust they all rotate together but as our spin decreases each layer slows at a different speed unleashing massive friction the Earth is literally ripping itself apart from the inside out the waters off San Francisco are an area

11:08 prone to earthquakes but now oceanographers here see evidence of seismic activity that they've never seen before deep cracks in the ocean floor release intense heat dead fish killed by the blast float to the surface volcanic activity in and around Chicago has shut down several major arteries experts are advising that anyone who can stay home today should do so the slowing Earth has brought catastrophic geological disasters the moving oceans are just as

11:57 wild less centrifugal force means the oceans continue to flow from the bulging equator steadily advancing to the poles the ocean in the Arctic was once more than 4500 m deep now it's more than 13,000 all that water Has Come From Oceans to the South and shallow areas like the English Channel dry out as Waters drain to the poles for the only time in recorded history Britain is part of Mainland Europe and Ireland is connected to England you can now walk from London to

12:48 Paris and it's not just Europe Miami's famous beaches are now in land as the oceans surge to the poles Cuba and Florida are connected by land and Mexico is about a third bigger than it was it's not only water that's on the move as the Earth's rotation weakens the atmosphere is now starting to settle towards the top and bottom thirds of the globe these are the only places people can breathe New

13:34 York London Toronto are all safe but Mexico City and other major urban areas to the South are now doomed their air too thin to [Music] breathe in the United States Denver is called the mile high city as the atmosphere thins it now feels like it's almost 5 km high with an air pressure that's like breathing more than halfway up Everest experts believe that air will remain breathable in lower elevation

14:19 states such as Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma water is flooding in from the north and air is thinning from the South but a few small pockets of habitable land still exist in the middle of North America these areas are not expected to flood they are calling this the habitable zone staying in Denver is a death sentence come on guys let's go for the young and old the effects are already critical

15:05 soon the air will be lethal for everyone the US government advises that up to 25 million people in parts of the Southwest should Evacuate the slowing rotation of Earth unleashes deadly friction between the Earth's outer layers and the inner molten core volcanoes and earthquakes have destroyed routs by Road and rail major highways across the country are closed and those traveling by car are warned that there are no safe routes earthquakes volcanoes and

15:51 violence are reported across the states and those who must travel are advised that the government can offer little by way of help those making the treacherous journey into the livable middle of the United States witness the geological upheaval caused by the slowing Earth

16:42 while earthquakes devastate the Midwest retreating oceans leave major coastal cities high and dry New York Boston Halifax are far in land Australia has formed a new continent with Indonesia and Asia's shallow Coast is no longer a coast at all in Just 4 months Hong Kong and other major ports are dry shipping has come to a standstill all around the world

17:31 others are discovering the slowing Earth has a new danger death by solar radiation an invisible electric field called the magnetosphere normally protects the Earth the field is maintained by our planet spin the rapid rotation of the Earth's iron core generates it the magnetosphere deflects blasts of solar radiation but as our spin slows the magnetic field is weakening and our protective shield is breaking down tropical places like Miami are in

18:16 no danger of flooding the city sits on the Atlantic's continental shelf now dozens of kilometers of that shelf are exposed and Miami is landlocked and here the air is still breathable but the sun is deadly today's solar radiation index is eight or extremely high people outside are reminded to completely cover up and limit exposure to 15 minutes and remember sunscreen does not protect against the risk it's been just over a year since our rotation began to slow we're now

19:04 spinning over 340 km an hour less than we used to the face of the planet continues to change the Waters of the Earth are still moving and a year since it became possible to walk from England to France it will never be possible again again at first the shallow areas around Mainland Europe drained as the North Atlantic Ocean converged on the pole but now as the polar sea swells the United Kingdom and much of Europe are swallowed

19:50 by a new ocean London is gone Berlin gone Moscow gone historical cities of Northern Europe all at the bottom of a new [Music] sea in North America survivors who have been able to make the trip begin to arrive in Kansas a college campus has been

20:37 commandeered scientists are working to create a refuge in what they think is the safest place in the United States no flooding lots of air minimal earthquakes everybody's excited but they face an enormous struggle there's no food being delivered in this shadow World roads are all but impossible what food they eat they'll have to grow here it's a disaster on a scale we've never had to deal with the survivors who have made it here are on their own it will be a

21:23 struggle and they are the lucky ones it's taken just 2 and 1/2 years but now the spin of the earth is just 320 km an hour more than 1200 km an hour slower than it once was entire countries are underwater in others the the air is too thin to breathe survivors face another devastating consequence of the Slowdown all over the world people

22:11 struggle to get enough sleep each day is now more than 2 and 1/2 days long each night is two humans are not programmed to sleep in a world that's light for more than 60 hours straight people who live in cities that are unflooded where the air is still breathable struggle with this lack of

22:56 sleep people suffer from blurred vision and lack of muscle control hey you okay it's a breakdown commonly faced by astronauts submariners and Arctic explorers their brains are numb with fatigue and our world is almost too strange to comprehend [Music] the slowing Earth has a devastating

23:43 effect on animals too the migration of most mammals is triggered by the changing length of day now the day is getting longer not shorter some migr Birds die as they fail to fly south and then are Frozen as long periods of cold night close in other species face the same fate [Music] Caribou monarch butterflies zebras all doomed to Extinction on a slowing Earth

24:30 as the oceans move to the poles a new Mega continent is forming at the Earth's middle latitudes a group of oceanographers in San Francisco is determined to make their way there these survivors want to start aresh on what used to be the sea Flor it holds more hope for life than staying in a big city it's a desperate decision but on this radically altered Planet there are few good choices in 2 and 1 half years a gradually slowing world has been completely transformed and the worst is yet to

25:25 come four years have passed since the Earth's rotation started to slow we're spinning at just over 60 km an hour the sun now stays in the sky for 13 days followed by 13 Days of Night the old concept of Four Seasons is gone the climate is now defined by a cycle of bright and hot or dark and cold in the long nights the temperatures can plummet to minus 55° C humans struggle to

26:12 adapt most species of animals cannot even if they survived the floods and found air to breathe they are now destroyed by the bitter cold animals that hibernate stand a better chance of survival they're used to going without food for long periods but their future remains uncertain as their habitats are either flooded or airless plants are another casualty vital food crops like corn and wheat need lots of sunlight to grow temperate rainforests freeze and

26:58 never [Music] recover only the boreal forests of Canada and the northern United States are Hardy enough to survive the cold and darkness except they are now [Music] underwater North American cities are now swallowed as the Atlantic and Pacific converge Toronto Halifax Boston Millions more people in the US and Canada are

27:47 dead New York too is being engulfed by the new ocean but the water here is just 100 m deep its skyscrapers only semi submerged Chicago one of the southernmost cities on the Great Lakes is finally swallowed by the Sea those who have stayed now leave in panic as seawater begins flooding Subways and courses through City sewers hold hold back soon the entire city will be

28:36 completely submerged in a world where the massive oceans continue to move there aren't many safe places left lethally thin air has made nearly all of Africa Australia and South America almost uninhabitable near the equator the air is like being at 10,000 M higher than being at the summit of Mount Everest enormous cities lie devastated and

29:24 empty but an equatorial continent is r rising from where the ocean once was there are a few places in this new Mega continent where the air is dense enough to breathe a ship carrying a group of young explorers is making its way west to start a new human Colony on what was once the ocean floor their journey is treacherous GPS doesn't work on a slowing Earth even charts are unreliable as the ocean changes shape all around

30:10 them but in this Savage changing world the weather is increasingly unpredictable the rotation of the earth creates constant patterns of East moving winds in the Northern Hemisphere and West moving winds in the southern this is called called the Coriolis effect as that spin slows those predictable wind patterns become unstable are down new High Press systems form and tear across the planet ocean storms are rampant and

30:56 Wild they can last for weeks at a time weather around the world is changing 13 days of darkness send w of freezing cold around the [Music] planet while here in Miami we're being

31:42 blanketed by snow again today as another nighttime storm whips across the country the blizzard is expected to last another 12 days until the sun comes up places like Miami are not equipped for brutal winter weather many houses have no heat another crippling blow to cities already struggling to endure and life all around the globe is going to get harder still it's been 4 and a half years since the rotation of the earth began to slow down

32:28 it used to turn about, 1600 km an hour now it's barely turning at all the Sun stays in the sky for 16 days straight As the rotation slowed the oceans of the world flowed towards the poles two new oceans have taken shape Kansas is now right on the coast of the new Mighty Northern [Music] sea this sea is 16 km deep about 800,000 square kilm of the United States is now inhabitable less

33:14 than a tenth of its former land mass settlers have created a habitat for growing food and staying sheltered from the increasingly harsh climate of EXT extreme hot and extreme cold the new oceans offer the best chance of food the flooding of continents has made them nutrient Rich meaning a lot of food for fish warm water species died as Coastal ecosystems were destroyed either dried up or flooded when the oceans moved but

34:01 many cold water species such as Cod mackerel and tuna [Music] survive men and women who once farmed now fish where a new ocean meets the midwestern Plains in the Long Cold Nights refugees work in teams catching fish from the freezing ocean they take them back to the habitat

34:48 they risk their lives in minus 55° cold that the body can endure for just a few minutes fishing through the ice is not offering enough food for an increasing number of North American refugees time is running out as the spinning of the earth slows the blinding snow finally stops the Coriolis effect caused by spin controls weather and it's gone now storms are increasingly predictable

35:33 reduced spin produces a more stable weather pattern but there are still wild temperature swings between the hot days and cold nights and this stable weather means less precipitation rain mostly Falls far out on the oceans without wind to blow storms in land the occasional daytime rain that does come to the Kansas habitat is stored for the long periods of drought the situation here is

36:23 desperate at Sea the oceanographers who set sail from San Francisco and now Shipwrecked on the mega continent they scour the ocean floor for whatever they can find to survive their choice to live far out in what used to be the sea is risky unlike those in Kansas they only have the resources they brought with them and what they can salvage but if they succeed they will have the largest piece of habitable land on the entire

37:16 planet those who have chosen to stay put in nons sunken cities like Miami face the greatest hardship you guys check those boxes let see if we guys over get this done there's very little to eat electricity is unreliable clean water is hard to find there are no food supplies coming in by land or sea the Comforts of technological life are gone when the resources Left Behind are

38:02 exhausted Miami will have nothing left to live on time is running out with the end in sight some survivors decide to leave they must find a place that is not landlocked like Miami to survive in this bizarre world they need to be close to water and the best place is thousands of kilometers [Music]

38:47 away the oceans are one of the last sources of animal protein on the planet mid-pacific a new Colony takes route they set up a small base camp for food and shelter wind power is harnessed to generate electricity the seabeds drying up and agriculture will soon be possible on the edge of the new Northern ocean but when the darkness comes the climate stretches human survival to its limit more than 16 days of freezing temperatures with a bare minimum of shelter on the open Mega

39:33 [Music] continent and when the world stops spinning completely more deadly change will sweep the Earth 5 years after it started slowing down the Earth stopped spinning completely the oceans atmosphere and climate settle into place a mega continent encircles the planet center two vast oceans run from the poles to the middle latitudes all land at the middle is lethally airless more than half of the

40:19 new continent is uninhabitable the Earth is not spinning but it still orbits the Sun so from now on it will be light for half of the year and dark for the other half as the sun is on the other side of the Earth the old concept of day and night is dead from now on it's an annual pattern 6 months of Sunrise and day 6 months of Sunset and night the sun casts a withering Spotlight on

41:05 the earth under its glare temperature sore to 55° C everything in its path is battered by powerful winds on the edge of the sun's Spotlight the effects are less deadly on the new Mega continent near Hawaii it rains in Torrance for a month in the same way that a hurricane creates storms thousands of kilometers away the rain provides enough water for the rest of the

41:54 year others are not not so lucky those living in Kansas are thousands of miles north of the sun's blistering path they now discover in the stable weather of a still Earth that it will never rain here again the settlers cannot even desalinate the oceans for water with the electricity Supply collapsed there is not enough energy the world now has one weather pattern all controlled by the sun no more winds no more pressure

42:40 systems and with the long dark night the final blow the nighttime temperature plummets to minus 55° C almost 20° colder than the average Arctic winter the new polar oceans freeze and stay frozen all year round on a still Earth those living in Kansas are doomed the Ocean Colony in the mid-pacific is just 1700 km from the edge of the sun's path they can fish without having to break through the ice

43:34 a year passes more than 6 and a half billion people are dead a few wandering survivors find their way to one of the last places on Earth where people can breathe the air and survive the climate the cycle of Darkness and Light cold and hot wet and dry repeats and continues for the rest of

44:22 time suddenly slowing our rotation creates a brand new planet it will never happen like this but it reveals the delicate balance that keeps our planet [Music] alive