Aftermath

welcome to a brand new world a world where the earth doesn't spin where every

night is six months long while here in Miami were being blanketed by smell

again today and every day is six months to and the planet is scorched by a

relentless radiation is 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

landscape

this is the story of what could happen if the planet suddenly stopped spinning

how on earth changing one thing

changes everything

it's a fundamental fact planets spin

our solar system was born four and a half billion years ago from a spinning

cloud of gas and 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 it more than 1,600 kilometers an hour

the earth is gradually slowing down about two seconds every 100,000 years

but today that slowdown is going to speed up

it will take five years and by the end of the earth will have stopped spinning

completely

what would happen to our oceans

our continents

the air we 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 to our American 553 just turn on file

most commercial aircraft navigate with the help of GPS GPS relies on a series

of satellites which telling aircraft where it is the ground basis the

satellites communicate with and not weather satellites assume they'll be gps

doesn't expect the earth spin to change so dramatically the slowing earth

Rex the carefully calibrated system the effects are catastrophic American 721

boarding approach repeat aborting computers direct planes to land far from

airports

hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk as planes around the world suddenly

discover their navigation systems don't work

scientists have confirmed an erratic reduction in the Earth's rotation summer

even suggesting it will stop spinning in as little as five years if it does

the results will be disastrous scientists are predicting no country

will be spared

in the first week the problems mountain cities across the globe

the days are getting steadily longer each one different from the one before

seconds and minutes will soon become hours and days

the thirty six trillion dollar world stock market is in free fall today

uncertainty about what will happen has shattered investor confidence

what will happen to a twenty-four-hour-a-day world if it's

longer than 24 hours

after two weeks the world spin has slowed by nearly 15 kilometers an hour

and the chain reaction gain speed commercial aviation has been reduced to

essential services only with the record 470 accidents worldwide time is the

first problem on earth that is slowly losing its spin

but after two weeks

there's a new even more critical problem

the oceans

our planet Bulger's 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 acquaintance but as

that force weakens the oceans begin to move

cease start flowing away from the bulging equator towards the poles

more than a billion cubic kilometers of ocean are on the move

northern places like the Canadian Arctic are the canary in the coal mine three

months after the earth begins to slow down water creeps over Arctic shores

like an overflowing bath top-level arrived and the Canadian government has

ordered a full-scale evacuation of the Arctic and there's another dangerous

effect on a slowing earth as sea levels change the air we breathe is changing

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 city is in the tropics including Rio mumbai and

singapore

it's getting increasingly hard to breathe here

further north cities at higher elevations are also beginning to

struggle

in the United States people climbing in Colorado experience the effect

dramatically altitudes of 1,500 meters and are like breathing at 4,500 humans

get altitude sickness at less than 2,500 meters

just over 5,000 meters is the outer limit of survival

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the world is changing quickly and the worst is yet to come

four months have passed since the earth started losing its spin when our

spinning more than two hundred and twenty-five kilometers an hour slower

that we used to each day's almost 28 hours long

meaning two more hours of daylight and two more of darkness

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slipping time has thrown our world the oceans and the atmosphere into chaos

officials in Russia report that that country's vast oil fields are now under

water

leaving that country with the fuel emergency just as winter approaches

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in most of the United States flooding and thin air and not yet taking lives

people are coping but suddenly all over the world

there's a new deadly problem

earthquakes occur whether have never been earthquakes before

the earth has three layers a molten core of solid insulating mantle and a hard

outer crust

they all rotate together but as I 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 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

of as broad catastrophic geological disasters the moving oceans are just as

wild

less centrifugal force means the oceans continue to flow from the bulging

equator steadily advancing to the polls the ocean in the Arctic was once more

than 4,500 meters deep

now it's more than 13,000 all that water has come from oceans to the south and

shallow areas like being this channel dry out as waters drained to the polls

for the only time in recorded history Britain is part of mainland Europe and

island is connected to England

you can now walk from London to Paris and it's not just Europe

miami is famous beaches are now in land as the oceans surge to the polls 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 third of the

globe

these are the only places people can breathe

New York

london Toronto are all safe but Mexico City and other major urban areas to the

south and now doomed

they're too thin to breathe

in the United States

denver is called the mile high city as the atmosphere thins it now feels like

it's almost five kilometers high with an air pressure that's like breathing more

than a half way up Everest

experts believe that air will remain breathable in lower elevation 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 exists 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

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for the young and old the effects are already critical

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soon the air will be lethal for everyone

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 roots by road and rail major highways across the country are

clubs and those traveling by car warned that there are now safe routes

earthquakes volcanoes and violence are reported across the states and those who

must travel or implies that the government can offer a 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 of it

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while earthquakes devastate the Midwest retreating oceans the major coastal

cities high and dry

New York Boston halifax are far inland

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Australia has formed a new continent with Indonesia and Asia's shallow coast

is no longer a coast at all in just four months

hong kong and other major ports are dry

shipping has come to a standstill all around the world

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 planets 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 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 indexes eight or extremely high people outside are

reminded to completely cover up and limit exposure to 15 minutes

remember sunscreen does not protect against the risk

it's been just over a year since our rotation began to slow when are spinning

over 340 kilometers 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

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 a swallowed by a new ocean

london is gone berlin gone

Moscow gone historical cities of northern Europe all of the bottom of a

new see

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in North America survivors who have been able to make the trip begin to arrive in

Kansas a college campus has been commandeered scientists are working to

create a refuge and what they think is the safest place in the United States

no flooding lots of air minimal earthquakes

but they face an enormous struggle there is no food being delivered in the

shattered world

roads are all but impossible what food they eat

they'll have to grow here