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...
It will be Bush's fault by the end of the week. If he had signed the Kyoto treaty and funded stem cell research none of this would have occurred.
Some nutjob called Rush's show today (with Roger Hedgecock subbing for Rush) and tried to say that we have messed up the surface of the earth by building highways, blasting tunnels through the mountains, sucking gas and water from beneath the earth, etc. and have messed up the stability of the earth, which is no longer like a geodesic dome because we have pulled so many of the props out ... or some such weird thing. Roger cut him off pretty quickly so one didn't have to listen to much of his drivel ... and stated that earthquakes, etc., have been happening since long before man was driving SUVs ... or even inhabiting the planet.