Aritifical Gravity Devices

Screenbert writes "This article talks about simulating gravity for space missions. However this article also spawned deeper and darker questions. Go with me on this for a minute.... If you spin something around really fast and you are on it, you get pushed to the edge of the spinning object. IE, a merry-go-round. Gravity is a side-effect of mass. Since the earth is spinning, it pushed everything out from it, thereby having a counter-effect of mass. So if the Earth where to stop spinning, would we become mushrooms?&"