What If Earth’s Axis Was Tilted by 90 Degrees?

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The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over and... It wouldn’t be the Earth as you know it.

Long, frigid nights followed by devastatingly blazing days, wiping out any signs of life for good. How can a slight change in its axial tilt make the planet uninhabitable?

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