Posted on 08/02/2022 3:50:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
No wonder why I’m always running out of time. The days are getting shorter.
3 Gorges Dam. Situation should be remedied soon.
Not yet, officially. They have not subtracted a negative leap second yet. Why this should occur is not clear. Slowing of the earth has long been attributed to tidal breaking, with the lost angular momentum transferred to the moon, which, counter-intuitively, increases the lunar orbit’s radius, causing the period to increase very slightly.
Yes, now being 73, I can recollect that about 50 yeasrs ago at the age of 23 I statrted to feel light headed.
So the increased spin is causing an increase in friction between the atmosphere and the land increasing the air temperature. No wonder it’s hot out there. We are all going to die.
I think you have the best take. If any shortening is possible, it would be from locking up large bodies of water, which wasn’t really a thing until 100 years ago.
If North and South America were ever separate, then I would think that their joining would have made quite a difference a long time ago.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
We may see the undoing in the not too distant future.
All our founding fathers spinning in their graves has affected the global rate of spin
It would be best that you had not even suggested that, as some fool “climate change” idiot might pick up on it & cause more problems than they are already. It is really strange how some of our gov’t. appointees would believe how something like that necessitated changes & yet can’t see how we are in a recession.
OMG!!!! That's what I thought? This is worse than global warming and/or climate change or even monkeypox! As the spin increases people are going to spin off into outer space! It's time to eat more chocolate chocolate chip ice cream to help tether yo fat ass to the earth. I know. Joe told me so. No joke!!!!!
I went to the doctor.
I said, “Doc, I’m dizzy!”
He said, “Not to worry. It’s just faster earth spin.”
As an example, the next time you take your kids or grandkids to the park and push them on the merry-go-round, do an experiment. Push it hard to get it spinning, then ask them to lean their bodies away from the center (which slows the rotation), then ask them to lean their bodies towards the center (which speeds rotation). I did this with my kids to teach them about kinetic energy and rotational inertia.
You’re not wrong. The Earth is no different than a spinning figure skater tucking their arms in or spreading them out to adjust the speed of their spin. Mass changes in relation to distance from the equator has the same effect and it was reported the dam changed the length of a day as well as major earthquakes when tectonic plates moved.
That means everyone is becoming lighter. I need to adjust my scale tomorrow to reflect my true weight. This discovery will make many women happy.
Damn CO2!
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