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Quake May Have Altered Earth's Rotation
Drudge Report ^ | 12/27/04 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 12/27/2004 6:48:27 PM PST by wagglebee

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To: hosepipe

It was awful last night! I lost a lot of sleep! Like, one fourth of a whole REM!


61 posted on 12/27/2004 7:24:20 PM PST by The Teen Conservative
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To: wagglebee
I find it absurd that a highly-educated scientist, who is no doubt highly paid and gets piles of money in grants, has nothing better to do than figure out where 3 microseconds went.

There could be some things out there that might be affected by this: scientific tests, space travel, etc. Who knows, but I'm sure it's somebody's job to find out what this may affect.

62 posted on 12/27/2004 7:24:49 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: LisaMalia

Forgive me......I just started messing with HTML today......I'm having entirely too much fun!


63 posted on 12/27/2004 7:25:10 PM PST by musical_airman (Have the wonder of a child, Party like you're in college, But live like a man.)
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To: Indy Pendance

A stitch in time saves nine.

I have no idea what that actually means, but it seemed to fit...


64 posted on 12/27/2004 7:28:33 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Shaking nine point oh - With a deadly wave goodbye - oh four departed...)
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To: poindexter
Sorry, but you're off by a factor of 1000. "Micro" means 1/1000. Still, 1000 times almost nothing is still almost nothing! ;-)

Your confusing 'micro' with 'milli' seconds.

65 posted on 12/27/2004 7:31:29 PM PST by Jay Howard Smith (Retired(25yrs)Military)
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To: musical_airman

Congratulations! Been there, done that. It makes monsters out of all of us until the novelty wears off ... then we just post pics when they actually have a purpose ... LOL!


66 posted on 12/27/2004 7:33:39 PM PST by kayak (Merry CHRISTmas!)
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To: wagglebee

Cool..is this like in the 1978 movie "Superman" with Christopher Reeves..(Who would be walking today if horseface was elected president..oh..and if Reeves hadn't tragically passed away a few months ago)..where Superman turned back the rotation of the earth and made time go backwards..thus saving Lois Lane and etc....is this the same??????


67 posted on 12/27/2004 7:34:01 PM PST by BerniesFriend
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To: Jemian

ping


68 posted on 12/27/2004 7:34:19 PM PST by kayak (Merry CHRISTmas!)
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To: wagglebee

The Indonesian quake struck just three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away but no serious damage or injury.

Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that stuck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:25-28)


69 posted on 12/27/2004 7:34:44 PM PST by missyme
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To: missyme

Thanks.


70 posted on 12/27/2004 7:39:01 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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To: First_Salute
Three millionths shorter. We get leap seconds because of the secular deceleration of the earth's rotation. If the earth's rate of rotation slows by 0.002 seconds per day per century, at the end of 20th century, we would expect to lose one second every 18 months. To keep time reckoned by the earth's orientation (celestial time) synchronized with atomic time standards officials in France decide to add or subtract a second from UTC from time to time.

As days get longer, we will need fewer leap years (intercalary days) to keep the calendar aligned with the seasons. At 0.002 sec per day per century, it would take about 5,000 years to loose one complete day, which about as long accuracy of the Gregorian Calendar, so it should not effect leap years in our lifetime.

71 posted on 12/27/2004 7:41:12 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay are ead-day.)
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To: airborne

"I'll be 22 on Jan 8 (times 2)"

Welcome to the fourty-four club.

I was truly under the delusion that I was 43 until my dear, sweet mother reminded me I was not.

I'm now truly an old fart that I forgot my age. (<;


72 posted on 12/27/2004 7:41:55 PM PST by mplsconservative (Normal day, let me know the treasure you are.)
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To: wagglebee; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus
Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Coincidence?

73 posted on 12/27/2004 7:42:56 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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To: griffin

Thanks.

So if I understand you correctly, at one extreme, the theoretical case would be if this mass fell into an empty underground pocket of air (same volume) the result would be more relative mass closer to the core. In which case we'd see a permanent effect.



74 posted on 12/27/2004 7:43:04 PM PST by P.O.E. (Happy New Year)
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To: Indy Pendance

Me and Elvis, Nixon and David Bowie.


75 posted on 12/27/2004 7:43:46 PM PST by airborne ("All that is gold does not glitter. Not all who wander are lost.")
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To: wagglebee
On premise a slab slid into core...

Does the premise have any supporting data?

76 posted on 12/27/2004 7:44:51 PM PST by newzjunkey (Demand Mexico Turnover Fugitive Murderers: http://www.escapingjustice.com)
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To: missyme

Sorry, this is bogus. The earthquake did not affect the earth's rotation.

But the length of the day has been getting longer since the moon was created 4.4 billion years ago. The moon's gravity causes a slight drag on the rotation through the tides and angular momentum.

The day was about 15 hours long 4.4 billion years ago to today where it is 24 hours long.

Over those 4.4 billion years, how many magnitude 9.0 earthquakes have there been? If there was one every 30 years which sounds about right and it added 3 microseconds to the day or off the day, the day would be well over 1,000 hours long or there would be no day.

I hate junk science.


77 posted on 12/27/2004 7:45:55 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: airborne

I only have one dead president, Woodrow Wilson.


78 posted on 12/27/2004 7:46:29 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: wagglebee

Maybe the orbit shift will cause the Earth to head toward the sun, as in "The Day the Earth Caught Fire".


79 posted on 12/27/2004 7:46:52 PM PST by rbg81
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To: wagglebee

Talk about your long-haired arithmetic!

I recall seeing an article some years ago, where a physicist calculated how much the earth's roatation slowed, every time the Space Shuttle launched. It wasn't by much, but he darn sure came up with a number!

What is really amazing to me is the report that the entire Sumatran Peninsula moved 100 feet.

It's hard to get your mind around the forces involved here...

And, despite what the environmentalists would have us believe, man's power to damage the planet pales beside the forces of nature...


80 posted on 12/27/2004 7:48:24 PM PST by Bean Counter
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