# Perhaps repeat query: If the Earth had always spun the other way, how would things be different?

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**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-repeat-query-if-the-earth-had-always-spun-the-other-way-how-would-things-be-different/638069/2 "2012-10-17T21:25:14Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> what nudged the Earth and the planets to spin in one direction?

I believe it was that planet that hit us and broke off the moon; that’s what caused our axial tilt as well.

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