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To: bvw
You mean that’s NOT your theory? Oh... you are right then, it is far far better to mock what you can ignore rather than try to explain it. So much easier!
It's easy to mock a theory that's moronic.

We don't have to speculate on a supposedly faster-spinning earth 65 million years ago. We can test this moron-spawned-theory right now.

Do you think you weigh less in Brownsville, Texas than you do in Bangor, Main? Do you think you weigh less in Quito, Ecuador than you do in Barrow, Alaska, or than you do on the North Pole? Well, actually, you do.

But how much less?

Do you weigh more on the north pole than on the equator?

This means that the centripetal acceletation at the equator is about 0.03 m/s2 (metres per seconds squared). Compare this to the acceleration due to gravity which is about 10 m/s2 and you can see how tiny an effect this is - you would weigh about 0.3% less at the equator than at the poles!
So let's say the earth 65 million years ago was spinning twice as fast as it is now. Wow! Those big dinosaurs would way .6% less at the equator than in the northern latitudes. I guess you're saying that they all hunkered down at the equator and never stepped a foot north or south. Is that YOUR theory???
96 posted on 03/22/2008 4:57:09 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
Yes - that's part of it. What's more, the earth would have bulged more at the equator, and hence the surface water would have accumulated closer to the poles, and a band around the equator been the dry land.
99 posted on 03/22/2008 5:22:59 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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To: samtheman

Your yahoo ‘voted upon’ solution is wrong. The weight of an object at sea level is the same at the equator as a pole because the seas form an equi-potential surface. The water corrects for variations in gravitational and centrifugal accelerations.


259 posted on 04/04/2008 9:26:59 AM PDT by Poincare (Hope is nostalgia for the future.)
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