Earth's core rotating faster than rest of the planet but slower than previously believed

University of Cambridge ^ | February 20, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

As the world turns ping.

[cripplecreek]

Scientific spin.

[the invisib1e hand]

We’re doomed.

[kittymyrib]

“,,,scientists from the University of Cambridge have discovered that earlier estimates of 1 degree every year were inaccurate and that the core is actually moving much slower than previously believed – approximately 1 degree every million years. “

LOL...how can scientists be so totally WRONG about so many “facts” that “everyone” accepts for years? Wonder how many taxpayer grants were wasted publishing dire warnings about the spinning core of the earth.

[OrangeHoof]

This explains my acid reflux...

[Brilliant]

It’s obviously Bush’s fault. When he was President it sped up. Now that Obama is President, it’s slowed back down.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Bush’s fault.

[eyedigress]

Arizona was -13 degrees give or take 20 years ago, where is it now

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They can’t even get a simple global measurement like this right, but they know what global climate is doing, even though there are an infinite number of variables.

[dayglored]

> ...time for the differences to freeze into the structure...

Isn't "freeze" kind of the wrong word here? Aren't the temperatures extremely high? What's wrong with "solidify"?

I'm in a mood to pick nits tonight... watch out! :)

[mrsmith]

” an east-west hemispherical difference in velocity is frozen into the structure of the inner core.”

Read it three times and still don’t comprehend how two halves of a sphere can move at different velocities. Guess I’m not as smart as I used to be.

[muawiyah]

"feeze", "melt" ~ these terms refer to phase changes.

They are not to be confused with such terms as frozen, melted, solid, liquid, gaseous, plasma or douflopped

[SAJ]

Perhaps the paradigm here is, of all people, Mrs. Cunningham from "Happy Days", when in one episode, she specifically told the "Fonz" to "sit on it and rotate".

Left to my own devices, I rather doubt that my comment on this would be as temperate.

FReegards!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. Pole shift-related.

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[6SJ7]

They are not to be confused with such terms as frozen, melted, solid, liquid, gaseous, plasma or douflopped

douflopped? Is that anything like doo-wap?

[muawiyah]

Kinda, sorta ~ yeah, something!

[muawiyah]

Did you realize that when it comes to the relative rates of rotation of the inner and the outer core there’s not a doggoned thing any of us can do about it.

[muawiyah]

Makes me feel so helpless ~ utterly and totally helpless.

[decimon]

Pole shift-related.

Only in Cleveland. Everywhere else they get regular jobs now.