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The Day The Earth Fell Over
Live Science.com ^
| August 25, 2006
| By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writer
Posted on 08/26/2006 4:20:53 AM PDT by aculeus
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:20:54 AM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
Hmmm. Should I go out and purchase ultra cold weather gear?
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:22:49 AM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Doing my part to maintain global warming.)
To: chemicalman
This suggests we should limit the movements of Michael Moore.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:24:42 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
To: aculeus
Please...now tie in "Globull" Warming with huge volcanos...a hint at Bush...and your set.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:26:02 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(ISLAMOFASCISM!!!!)
To: chemicalman
Not quite yet, wait a day or two, so as not to cause a panic!!!
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:26:32 AM PDT
by
Fighter@heart
(Anti-troll mechanism is on & scanning all posts)
To: aculeus
Should a mass such as the very heavy volcano become unbalanced, Earth would tilt and rotate itself until the extra weight moves somewhere near the equatorWell, that'll teach the Muslims.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:26:43 AM PDT
by
Bullish
( The pig headed monkeys of Islam can kiss my grits!)
To: SampleMan
This suggests we should limit the movements of Michael Moore.
Quick, tie that sucker down before he moves again.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:26:47 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Father of an American Soldier)
To: aculeus
Sounds just like a science fiction book I read many years ago! (wish I could remember the title?)
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:28:15 AM PDT
by
BB2
To: chemicalman
This sounds remarkably like the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky.
To: aculeus
If it happens, it will be . . .
Wait for it . . .
BUSH'S FAULT!!!!
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:32:57 AM PDT
by
freedomlover
(This tagline has been pulled - - - - OK?)
To: aculeus
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
We need legislation and we need it NOW! Heavy things and magnets must be distributed EVENLY around the globe, the US must NOT hoard these dangerous items any longer!
Damn those evil Pubbies/Bushbots/Neocons/Christians and their magnet monopoly!
Halliburton is making gazillions of dollars off of the tilt!
If we all lean the wrong way it will be THE END OF CIVILIZATION!
That's it! To be safe, we must all LEAN TO THE LEFT!
(I really shouldn't have to say that this post was tongue-in-cheek, but I had better do so... I was joking, I don't REALLY think those things)
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:33:11 AM PDT
by
WireAndWood
(DNC: if it weren't for groupthink we'd have no think at all.)
To: aculeus
Al Gore's next book: Earth in the Unbalance
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:33:32 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
("There's no problem so big that government intervention can't make it worse.")
To: aculeus
Rather than a volcanically induced event, I would be far more inclined to believe such could be caused by a significant impact from space.
During the Cold War, there was even speculation that all-out nuclear war could tilt the Earth on its axis and cause massive climate changes as a result.
The essential question with this type of data is one of whether the rotational axis of the planet changes or just the magnetic field shifts. The latter is known to have occurred in the past (polar reversals).
While not fully understanding if this could be so, I am curious if a major impact (Ni/Fe) might cause a temporary shift in magnetic field.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:35:13 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: mkmensinger
This sounds remarkably like the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky.
No it doesn't...it still happens slowly - a few feet a year.
To: BB2
"Polar Shift" - another CLive Cussler "save the planet" diatribe, had this exact scenario...of course induced by evil men.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:42:08 AM PDT
by
KeepUSfree
(WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
To: aculeus
Since Laz isn't up and FReeping yet this morning, I'll say the other inevitable line...
We're all gonna die!!!!
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:42:42 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
To: Smokin' Joe
I recall reading an estimate by an MIT physicist that if all the nuclear weapons in the world were set off at the same place and time, the resulting explosion would be short by a factor of one trillion in order to move the earth one foot.
To: aculeus
Saw something similar on TV not long ago. They talked about the magnetic poles reversing in the past and maybe due to do so again. I don't remember them saying anything about the equator moving. This version sounds a little more drastic.
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:43:43 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: BallyBill
When I lived in Nebraska I wass fascinated by the evidence from ash pits of a tropical climate in this plains state. There is a wooly mamouth in the state museum and other animals associated with jungles. Then they found evidence it was once a pine forest.
To: BallyBill
"
I don't remember them saying anything about the equator moving."
For this, I can vouch. My equator has moved over the last decade - sorta tilted to the front...
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posted on
08/26/2006 4:56:41 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
(He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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