Posted on 03/12/2011 2:04:19 AM PST by EternalVigilance
“I for one want to know exactly where the North Pole is, and where the magnetic pole is, and how far off they are.”
The magnetic poles are shifting, I remember reading about some airport that had to change some signs for the airplanes.
This goes to show that WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!
It raises the philosophical question “who or what IS in control” asked around a campfire a long long time ago.
Personally I believe Yahweh is in control. Jesus is coming back to reign on this earth someday.
What? The earth’s axis shifted four inches?!?! Quick - call Al Gore! Get Congress to pass an act restoring global balance! Don’t just stand there, do something!
Yeah, I guess that there were never violent earthquakes, tsunamis, or other cataclysmic events in the past. /s
Seriously: Applying Occam's Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor), wouldn't it make more sense to simply assume that plate tectonics were responsible for this?
Why accept explanations requiring a whole slew of additional unproven suppositions? Even a devote Christian could placidly accept that the catastrophe in Japan, while regrettable, was not due to any supposed divine intervention and/or wrath of God.
Regards,
Does anyone know how far inland the tsunami went?
Your tag line has not been stolen, it has been SHARED. Praise the Rock of our salvation!
***Does anyone know how far inland the tsunami went?***
SIX miles - according to this report. (although there are bloggers claiming up to 60 miles)
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_17596280?source=rss
Thank you.
I had heard the 60 miles claim, but it did not sound right. Six miles sounds more realistic.
Your tag line has not been stolen, it has been SHARED. Praise the Rock of our salvation!
I wonder how much a shift like that in the poles affects our seasons. This would mean the equator shifted also and the angle of the sun hitting the earth, etc.
Which way did it shift? This is like a police report on a suspect traveling at a high speed on I-95. Well which way north or south? Partial info is useless.
I assume relative to rotation.
Your tagline reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyc6QyDaOBg written as a love song to a human lover it works almost as well as a hymn, maybe even better.
I wonder about that same thing. I wish Texas was a little farther north but we might be going the other way.
I don’tknow how many wobbles the earth has but I have read that there is a IFIRC precession wobble (gyroscopic?) that cycles around 10,000 yrs. I can’t recall if it was some theorized hit that got it going.
I always wondered about this comparison, I grew up where the red clay met the sandhills and I noted that very few have the opportunity to literally build their house on a rock. There were thousands built on sand that stood for decade after decade with almost no change but those built on the red clay sometimes settled and shifted, the sand seemed to be the more stable of the two. I guess it depends on what kind of sand it is and how dry or wet. We had a lot of dirt roads and we drove the sand roads in wet weather and the clay roads in dry weather. When it was really dry the sand roads could become impassable, same thing with the clay when it was wet.
I remember that song from when I was a kid....:)
This is where my tagline comes from, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1JUIdbn1I
Quite a disparity, there....:)
This is one of his best “gospel” songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07K-mapOKvI
You find God in the oddest places, sometimes.
:)
Good tagline.
At work yesterday I couldn’t believe how busy busy busy everyone was. Working hard to meet deadlines, to make the company money, to make sure the top brass receive their 6-figure bonuses. Worrying worrying worrying about doing the job. Complaining about those who are not working 60-hour weeks like the others.
The only mention of the quake and the damage was when someone pulled out an iphone to show images of the whirlpool.
I couldn’t stop thinking about the horror and misery and loss of tens of thousands of Japanese who just wanted an ordinary day.
I’m so deep in the wrong line of work and existence I don’t know where to begin making a change.
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