Sometimes I Just Want The World To Stop Spinning For A Bit

[hmmm_tea]

...but then I remember I don't have a boat handy.

A necessity, according to the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), who calculate that if you slowly reduced the spin of the world to stationary removing the centrifugal force acting on the oceans, the world could look something more like this:



Definitely a bit wet this far from the equator.

Full article on the ESRI website

(via strangemaps )