But you'd have to get used to a nomad lifestyle, forever chasing daylight around the globe. You might have to deal with some unexpected weather, too. On a spinning Earth, most solar radiation hits ...

Geophysicist John Vidale noticed something striking while tracking the way seismic waves move from Earth's crust through ... at the other end of the globe in Alaska and Northern Canada.

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