A very strange astronomical rumor is
circulating:
Coming October 17, 2008 the sun will rise continuously for 36 hrs (1.5 days). During this time the US countries will be dark for 1.5 days.
It will convert 3 days into 2 big days. It will happen once in 2400 yrs. We're very lucky to see this. Forward it to all your friends.
This rumor appears to have come from India, so it means to say that the sun will rise for 36 hours over India, and the Americas will be dark for the same amount of time. Not that this makes the rumor any less nonsensical. The only way for this rumor to come true would be if the earth stopped rotating. Let's all hope that doesn't happen.
David Emery has already debunked this. He found that, "During a one-month period from mid-August to mid-September 2008, over 15,000 postings containing the phrase 'the sun will rise continuously for 36 hours' appeared on the Internet." He also theorizes that "the perpetrator(s) of the hoax put a great deal of effort into disseminating it."
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But it was a bright as daylight on midnight the 26th august 1883 in much of the world
The reason for this though was Krakatoa exploding.
1) The *sun* will not set for 36 hours. (not light from an explosion, not a third celestial body providing the light like the super nova in the 1200's that allowed for night reading in china, etc.)
2) That this has not happened for 2400 yrs.
Neither of the counter examples in the comments match these criteria of the rumor. 1) Both occurred more recently than 2400 years ago and 2) in both cases there was light at night, but not light caused by the sun.
If I had to guess the origin of this given it the hard sell that is mentioned in the article, I'm thinking its probably some new-age group trying to get a rep, much like the planet xers back in 2005.
BTW, stopping the Earth's rotation isn't the only way this could happen. You could also change the axis of rotation so that the Sun would circle just above the horizon (as it does in a polar summer).
Due to the centrifical force of water flowing in flushed toilets the Earth will wobble on it's axis thus creating a 36 hour sunrise. Because there are far more (flush) toilets in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere an imbalance is created in equalibrial inertial motion and the force of torque. This is caused primarilly because the toilets in the northern hemisphere flush with a water flow that moves in a clockwise motion and the southern hemisphere opposite that, if there were the same number of flush toilets flushing at the same time in both hemispheres then the opposing forces would balance each other out and there would be no event of any kind or at most a negligable barely measurable blip. Be glad that the 36 hour sunrise is the only consequence of these physics in play as there is the very real possibility of the planet ripping itself apart from the core if the engineers who created dishwashing machines didn't have the foresight to build all dishwasher machine sprayer wheels to spin in a natural and neutral clockwise motion. If the physics of the toilets and the dishwashers were combined in such an unfortunate blunder of engineering then our planet would persish and leave behind only a small wormhole that would spin irradically.
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Because of the melamine on milk scare being perpetrated everywhere, China's leader will force all its people, under the pain of butt kicking, to jump three times at exactly 12 midnight tomorrow. The force that will be created will affect the earth's rotation thus reducing the rotational force by 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of a octodecillion of a second.
I hope there is no device that could measure that, otherwise I will have a hard time explaining how I arrived with that figure.
Even NASA cannot predict such thing as that. They may compute and have advance scientific guess but no one can put a specific date if a phenomenon will occur. So shut the f*ck up!
get the point? i read this originated from India, if that's true then maybe it's just one way of promoting their country as if saying we'll get rewarded of light for 36 hours coz we've been good, while other countries will be reprimanded with total darkness.
people now are getting very smart trying to hide their agendas behind these formulated hoaxes. whatever their real agenda is, i don't think this should be bothering anyone. we shouldn't entertain craps like this. try to find out if what you're reading is true and don't believe everything you see in the net.
r u toking abOut??
i hOpe the sun wOnt risE on the hOuses of thOse bitchEs who mAde thiS...
wahAha... gO to the sun... ur such a Loser...
wAtever yaya...
if ever its true... its nothing compared to de psyched imagination.. of our human race..
I think..
to stop the earth's rotation is impossible..
it would take a higher amount of force or energy of earth..
like what.. momentum?
the equation one-half the mass times velocity squared ---> 1/2 (m v^2)
the half of the quantity
the mass of the earth times the velocity,
and note that the velocity is the rotation of earth and the revolution with respect to the sun..
now its imaginably a very big number..
a very impossible! cuz such number could wipe us out of the surface of the earth.. and it could be like another celestial body collides with earth.
IMPOSSIBLE..
And another thing..
what's possible is
the axis of rotation of earth can change..
but I think i would like be 1 in a billiont of a degree..
~last words~there is no such thing as nonesense..
if there is, your not using your senses at all..
well... all of those never happened...
i think this is also a hoax!
The difference between logic and supernatural phenomenon is totally opposite or contradicting. I believe that some things happen and that nobody could ever explain why and how it happened and, therefore, they'll call it miracles. In spite of major advances in science and technology, the world still suffers from disasters that is beyond our control. If this issue is true then so be it, but to those who made this so called hoax (if this is really a hoax) just for fun is just an instrument of Satan whose distract and cause panic amongst the entire human race.
The Philippines especially in central Philippines and Northern Mindanao will be experiencing 40 days darkness straight.. This will NOT happen in other countries but in Philippines alone. All other countries will be experiencing normal days. This will happen right after you read this. Ten minutes from now.. All you have to do is to prepare your flashlights and batteries fully charged!
WHAT KIND OF IDIOT SAID THIS, THIS, RADICAL, OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD RUMOR????
the only thing that'll happen is that the moon will be at perigee...
maybe this was based on some events that happened a few hundred years ago but those were caused by natural disasters(e.g. volcanic eruption).
it could happen if something natural caused it...
its not like the Earth could stop rotating or something....
if i were you, you should read more about history and prove to me that something like this happened before.
GEEZ... SOME PEOPLE JUST CANT DO SOMETHING USEFUL THESE DAYS...
'sigh'
tongangers!!!
tukmol!!
kelan ba aaraw ng magdamag?in ur dreams!
Sangoku is coming to town and he's going to save the day...!!!
that wud be sm change........
It's Oct. 17 and it didn't rise!!!!
what a hoax
buut buot sad mo da.....
then.......... next na sad..........
kay ang dec 12 2012.................
end na sa world..................
all the rumors will go to there Roof with torches and prove themselves right :D
O.R.
the earth spins fast enuf to escape the least time of sensing or differentiating light and dark and thus either we see only light or only dark depending on our first vision 😛
i am sure it will never happen. earth(nobody) can't change its speed by itself.