One day planet Earth had a fight with planet Pluto. Pluto said, that he is the most famous planet in the galaxy, because people wear t shirts with his picture. "We want Pluto to be the planet again", it says on those t shirts; or: "I was born when Pluto was a planet".
"I really am a STAR now," Pluto liked to say teasingly.
Planet Pluto did not mind that people removed it from the list of all planets in their galaxy, Pluto was happy he was famous, so famous that people had his pictures on t shirts, stickers, cups and fridge magnets. On the other side, Earth claimed she was the most famous one, because people live on HER and everybody in the whole galaxy lives on her.
"Pfff," Pluto blew raspberry at Earth and felt silent, spinning in his own pace. In a while Pluto stopped paying attention to Earth at all.
Earth felt very offended. She looked at other planets in the galaxy, all of them spinning silently in the darkness of the universe, minding their own business. Earth wanted to be famous too, she wanted people to notice her and wear HER picture on t shirts, just like they wore Pluto's picture. She tried to think what to do. She could not leave the galaxy, because of strong gravitation. She could not change herself to a star, like Pluto, because that is something people came up with and she could not make them change their rules. Earth was humming her melody, watching planets spinning, all of them in the same direction, everyone at a different speed, and suddenly she got an idea.
"That's it! Now, this will make me a famous star! I will start spinning other direction. All planets, even that stupid Pluto spin the same direction, from left to right, only Sun is spinning opposite way. And I will start spinning exactly like the Sun! I'll start spinning from right to left."
And so she did.
All of a sudden Earth stopped spinning and than started spinning opposite way: from right to left.
Helter-skelter, pell-mell, havoc and chaos grasped everything alive on Earth. At first, when the Earth stopped, everybody and everything rose into the air, because the gravitation turned off for a while. The pidgeons on Trafalgar Square were flying like crazy up and down, when one hundred Japanese tourists, seven double-deckers and all cyclists who happened to ride by flew into the air.
Elephants in Africa jumped into the air, together with rhinos and hippos as if they weighted nothing, and they were all flying in the air like zeppelins.
Martin's hot chocolate flew out of his cup and started to twist and turn around his head like Saturn's ring.
And when the Earth started to spin from right to left...
Well, what do you think happened, when the Earth started to spin from right to left?
"I really am a STAR now," Pluto liked to say teasingly.
Planet Pluto did not mind that people removed it from the list of all planets in their galaxy, Pluto was happy he was famous, so famous that people had his pictures on t shirts, stickers, cups and fridge magnets. On the other side, Earth claimed she was the most famous one, because people live on HER and everybody in the whole galaxy lives on her.
"Pfff," Pluto blew raspberry at Earth and felt silent, spinning in his own pace. In a while Pluto stopped paying attention to Earth at all.
Earth felt very offended. She looked at other planets in the galaxy, all of them spinning silently in the darkness of the universe, minding their own business. Earth wanted to be famous too, she wanted people to notice her and wear HER picture on t shirts, just like they wore Pluto's picture. She tried to think what to do. She could not leave the galaxy, because of strong gravitation. She could not change herself to a star, like Pluto, because that is something people came up with and she could not make them change their rules. Earth was humming her melody, watching planets spinning, all of them in the same direction, everyone at a different speed, and suddenly she got an idea.
"That's it! Now, this will make me a famous star! I will start spinning other direction. All planets, even that stupid Pluto spin the same direction, from left to right, only Sun is spinning opposite way. And I will start spinning exactly like the Sun! I'll start spinning from right to left."
And so she did.
All of a sudden Earth stopped spinning and than started spinning opposite way: from right to left.
Helter-skelter, pell-mell, havoc and chaos grasped everything alive on Earth. At first, when the Earth stopped, everybody and everything rose into the air, because the gravitation turned off for a while. The pidgeons on Trafalgar Square were flying like crazy up and down, when one hundred Japanese tourists, seven double-deckers and all cyclists who happened to ride by flew into the air.
Elephants in Africa jumped into the air, together with rhinos and hippos as if they weighted nothing, and they were all flying in the air like zeppelins.
Martin's hot chocolate flew out of his cup and started to twist and turn around his head like Saturn's ring.
And when the Earth started to spin from right to left...
Well, what do you think happened, when the Earth started to spin from right to left?
When Earth starts spinning opposite way everybody thinks the time went backwards too.
But that is not true.
You see, Earth spins with a speed of 1100 miles an hour.
Once the Earth stopped spinning it took clouds a while until they noticed it.
But that is not true.
You see, Earth spins with a speed of 1100 miles an hour.
Once the Earth stopped spinning it took clouds a while until they noticed it.
Keď sa Zem začne otáčať opačne, samozrejme, najjednoduchšie je predstaviť si, že sa začne vracať čas. Nuž ale tak to nie je. Zem sa normálne točí okolo vlastnej osi rýchlosťou 1100 míľ za hodinu. Keď sa teda Zem prestala z ničoho nič otáčať, atmosfére, oblakom, chvíľu trvalo, kým si to všimli. Aj ľuďom a zvieratám a všetkému, čo nebolo pripevnené, trvalo, kým si to všimli. A tak sa síce Zem prestala točiť, ale oblaky išli ďalej akoby nič až sa zmenili na nehybnej Zemi na obrovský hurikán, orkán, fujaván a všetko, čo nebolo je k Zemi pripevnené, vzlietlo do vzduchu. Skaly, stromy, budovy, ľudia, zvieratá, všetko lietalo hore dole a bolo to trocha strašidelné. A leteli by aj bez oblakov - pretože ani ľudia by si nevšimli hneď, že sa Zem prestala otáčať. A keď by sa znova otáčať začala, pomaly, pomaličky všetci zosadli na Zem.
Nuž ale beda, vo vzduchu preleteli nad oceánmi a kontinentami, a tak sa stalo, že krokodíli pristáli na severnom póle a tučniaky v Afrike, londýnsky poschodový autobus zosadol na malinkatý ostrov uprostred oceánu, kde sa ledva mohol otočiť, a národy sa premiešali medzi jednotlivými krajinami úplne bláznivo a nikto nikomu nerozumel.
A aby toho nebolo málo, Zem zabudla, akou rýchlosťou sa točila, a riadne spomalila. Pozrela na Mesiac a začala sa točiť ako on, a tak bola polovica Zeme na slnku dva týždne, a druhá polovica Zeme bola zatiaľ v tme a o štrnásť dní sa vymenili. Katastrofa. Žiadne rastliny neboli zvyknuté byť týždne na slnku a týždne v tme. Pomaly začali na celej Zemi vysychať. Nuž, povieš si, ešte stále to nebola taká katastrofa, ako keby Zem zastala úplne. Potom by tma a svetlo trvali na každej polovici Zeme presne pol roka. Pol roka by sme žili v tme, pol roka na svetle, a život na Zemi by sa presunul k rovníku. Možno by sa všetci ľudia, celé ľudstvo, každého pol roka sťahovali. Ktovie. Museli by si ale rýchlo postaviť ochranu pred kozmickým žiarením, pretože keď sa Zem netočí, nechráni ju magnetické pole. A keď sa točí opačne..nuž, môžeme len hádať, pretože len čo sa začala točiť opačne, prestala sa cítiť vo svojej koži.
"To akosi nie som ja," hovorila si. "Prečo by som sa mala hrať na niečo, čo nie som, dokelu. Nech si je Pluto slávna planéta, nech si je na tričkách, o mne ľudia všetci vedia práve preto, že na mňa každý deň nemyslia. Som pre nich samozrejmosťou. Eh, otočím sa tak, ako som bola predtým."
A Zem znova zastala, a oblaky si to nestihli všimnnúť, a znova všetci vyleteli do vzduchu, a keď sa Zem začala točiť, dopadli na Zem presne tam, odkiaľ pôvodne vzlietli.
Našťastie, sa toto všetko stalo v noci a tak sa mnohým ľuďom a zvieratám zdalo, že sa im sníval prečudesný sen o tom, ako lietajú okolo celej planéty.
A keď sa zobudili, boli naspäť vo svojej posteli a dali si na raňajky čaj a chlebík s maslom, a krútili nad tým čudesným snom hlavami, a znova bolo všetko v poriadku.
Tak ak sa ti niekedy snívalo, že lietaš, bolo to preto, že sa Zem na chvíľu prestala točiť.. a naozaj si letel. Žiť na Zemi je riadne dobrodružstvo. Nie je bohovské, že aj keď sedíš, tak vlastne cestuješ rýchlosťou 1100 míľ za hodinu? Všetko okolo nás cestuje, a tak si to ani nevšimneme. Možno, ak sa Zem prestane dnes otáčať len na chvíľu, ako kedysi, preletím oceánom a zobudím sa v chajdičke vedľa teba. A dáme si čaj. A chlebík s maslom a budeme krútiť hlavami.
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