What impact would reversing the Earth's rotation have?

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We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth's rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.

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At least anyone in space at that time

Ehm, good one... what would happen to all satellites and ISS? Would all that junk still spin in the same orbit or would it be flung out into space?

I think they would be going on with their business because gravity would be still the same. IANAP