Posted on 12/27/2004 6:48:27 PM PST by wagglebee
May have shortened the day by 3 microseconds, said gravity expert Richard Gross of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena... On premise a slab slid into core, Gross said he's done calculations 'to see what effect this (earthquake) should have had.' The result: A day shortened... 'We won't know for weeks,' said a geophysicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'So it's a guess, as of now'...
Geez...If this is the kind of stuff you occupy yourself with, no wonder you are Lonesome....:>)
But I must admit I'm confused. From what some people are saying now, it sounds like you might actually have to spend more time with them ... :-(
That, and the fact that the rotation is supposed to have sped up, not slowed down.
Yes and I posted a correction like a microsecond after I realized I mispoke. I should get extra credit for that.
And it wasn't clear whether you mean a day a million years from now will actually be 3 seconds shorter, or if that's just the cumulative difference over that period.
Who in their right mind thinks that a 3 microsecond time difference caused by an earth quake 3 days ago would ONLY register a time difference a million years from now?
Of course it would be cumulative.
I smell Karl Rove.
I'm expecting that level of dramatic thing in our era. We shall see.
ping
Did I hear correctly?
OK, me 'n my dog finally figured out what you said...he had to 'splain it to me, but now he wants to know how many grains he has to pull out of this to keep from waking up in the middle of the night a billion years from now.
LOL
Great interchange, from the eyes of a latecomer.
Are you sure it wasn't 15 milliseconds?
I learned typing a long time ago on a mill. Got Mavis Beacon's course to improve my speed. But that 15 millisecond test's a bitch.
Some nitwit environMENTAL wacko on Rush Limbaugh (Roger Hedgecock filling in) called in and said that all the digging we were doing on the surface making new roads and such caused the earthquake.
Yeah - you just start THINKING about typing the letter and it's too late... :)
LOL! OK, no thinking anymore. Thanks for the tip.
Ok. Tell your dog to multiply the grains of sand in the hour glass by 24 then divide that by 3 million, multiply it by 365 days per year and plan accordingly.
Of course he will want to convert it to dog years before advising you on how to alter your schedule.
Micro is a millionth -- true enough, but in the realm of units less than 1, milli is a thousandth (ie millimeter).
Surprised you are not on this thread.
Went out to eat tonight at a place that has tv's all over the restaurant. CBS news was on one screen with Dan Rather showing scenes from the tsunami.
My wife and I agreed that the MSM would somehow tie the earthquake to "Global Warming" or President Bush.
Seconds later CBS news came back from a break and my 17yo son burst out laughing.
Seems Rather was on screen again with a backdrop that said, "Tsunami" and "Global Warming".
Not being able to hear the "news" I'm assuming it was two seperate stories. Timing was good though!
Age is mostly a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
My mother used to warn me: Ask any woman her age and nine out of ten will guess wrong.
Happy New Year.
I should hope not......(backs off as he smells ozone).....I'm kind of a smart-ass, you know......
Yes, I know...messing around with HTML is like the new toy I got for Christmas.......see post #66, I believe.....
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