For anyone who has listened to Episode 514 of Once Bitten or to episode 074 of Illegitimate Scholar(youtube video linked in my NOSTR bio, here is, at the very least, an illustration of a reasonably accurate mechanical model of what a pole flip might look like.
This is what causes me to think that the Why Files video people didn’t really understand Chan Thomas’s book. Around the 5:00 mark, the host mistakenly says that according to Thomas, the Earth’s crust comes to a stop. That’s not what Thomas had in mind. This GIF is.
Hat tip to nprofile1qqs2zd3y0kx27l3shaqr6vsqd7hv5ryarnk859s8teq59sh76m9ducq47u4tp for sharing the GIF 🫡.
https://m.primal.net/PMcw.mov