Comments on: Review: The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray https://thenerddaily.com/the-last-day-by-andrew-hunter-murray/ All Things Nerdy Fri, 22 Oct 2021 01:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Cloom https://thenerddaily.com/the-last-day-by-andrew-hunter-murray/#comment-2765 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 01:21:20 +0000 https://www.thenerddaily.com/?p=21068#comment-2765 In reply to highfieldfamily.

It’s explained in the 3rd chapter? The rotation has slowed so that one side is always facing the sun, exactly how the same side of the moon always faces the Earth.

Believe it or not, the author did think of this.

]]> By: highfieldfamily https://thenerddaily.com/the-last-day-by-andrew-hunter-murray/#comment-2755 Thu, 14 Oct 2021 07:23:04 +0000 https://www.thenerddaily.com/?p=21068#comment-2755 Why is it that NO-ONE has picked up the HUGE hole in the premise – the planet is said to have stopped ROTATING, not ceased REVOLVING around the sun.

This means that the side of the earth that faces the sun when rotation stops, will be facing AWAY from the sun 6 months later in the revolution around the sun, because the earth is not rotating – in other words, there will NOT be a continuous day on one hemisphere and a continuous night on the other – rather, EVERY part of the earth will have a 3-month day, a 3-month sunset, a 3-month night and a 3-month sunrise.

Furthermore, the earth is still TILTED on its axis, so there WILL still be seasons.

]]> By: Q&A: Andrew Hunter Murray, Author of 'The Last Day' | The Nerd Daily https://thenerddaily.com/the-last-day-by-andrew-hunter-murray/#comment-1618 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:00:23 +0000 https://www.thenerddaily.com/?p=21068#comment-1618 […] and he also writes for satirical magazine, Private Eye. His debut novel, The Last Day, which we reviewed, is set in a ‘not quite apocalypse’ where the Earth has stopped turning and humanity is […]

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