Thank you for the reblog!

Though actually, I just realised something, I’m going to speculate a bit further on what this sort of Earth could be like.

I’ve assumed that the north south rotating planet’s new poles are locked, oriented facing Prograde and Retrograde (those are the orbital equivalent of forward and backward).

This would be the simplest version of this type of world- Perhaps the Earth’s equatorial bulge could make some sort of tidal locking happen. Idk, we’d need a real astrophysicist to do that analysis.

But if this wasn’t the case, things could get ready wierd.

There’d likely be no ice caps. Every six months, one of the rotational poles would be facing the sun, and the other in darkness.

I don’t think what’s been seen on the show is consistent with that though.

@bunnyravio pointed out in the tags that the Russian crator could have something to do with this. Perhaps an impact altered the rotation:





This, and the view from the Moon w gives us a clue where the new poles would be.

Though to make a crator that size, it would need to be bigger than the biggest Earth impact in geological history, so idk…

It may not be an impact crator.

Its position almost opposite the USA does make me suspicious though…

A few people have raised that this could just be seasonal axis tilt. Nope. That’s only plus or minus 23.5 degrees of vertical, this is far more extreme.

Also, some seem to be confusing this effect as caused by Stevens position on the moon. Not really, that wouldn’t change which part of the Earth is in Darkness.