The Day The Earth Fell Over

Live Science.com ^ | August 25, 2006 | By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writer

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Better balance-out Rosie O'Donut and Mikey Moore!

[OldArmy94]

"Yeah, Butch, I want 'em rotated and balanced.."

[Ditter]

A cooler climate for Texas would be good.



(I always try to look on the bright side)

[YOUGOTIT]

Did not the Egyptians or the aliens build the Pyramids so that they, because of their weight, the big one weighs 12,000,000,000 pounds, would balance and keep the earth stable? Or so I read several times.

[EEDUDE]

"They talked about the magnetic poles reversing in the past and maybe due to do so again."


No problem.

Just have to turn our maps upside down to read them.

[JustDoItAlways]

Sorry, this is junk science.

The pole wanders slightly, or more accurately the tilt of the earth changes slightly over time between 22.1 degrees and 24.5 degrees and the orbit around the sun wobbles, but the poles have been where they are for 4.4 billion years ever since another planet struck the earth, created the moon and put us on the spin/axis that we have now.

[Chode]

it's called the HAB Theory and it's nothing new... we might be due.

[tarheelswamprat]

The subject of pole shift is interesting, but this article is woefully inadequate and superficial. Those interested in the subject can get a good start and overview of the various theories and the supporting and non-supporting evidence with this book:

Pole Shift: Predictions and Prophecies of the Ultimate Disaster (Paperback), by John Warren White. It's available at Amazon.com

[P H Lewis]

Wow...the pyramids are global tire weights. That's a new one on me! They say you should learn something new every day, and now that I have, I'm taking the rest of the day off. Thanks! ;-)

[rbg81]

The Hab Theory?

[thackney]

There is a wooly mamouth in the state museum and other animals associated with jungles.

I thought woolly mammoths were a cold climate animal.

[ClaireSolt]

This one is a proto elephant. Maybe I got the name wrong.

[hsalaw]

What? Is the global warming threat losing its impact? Now we have to worry about the earth falling over?

[mcashman]

Ok, so let's see.. the mass of the earth is about 5.942E24kg; the mass of a large volcano (Mount Wrangell in Alaska, one of the most voluminous andesetic shield volcanoes in the world, 3x the size of Mount Rainier, 30km in radius, 2000m in elevation, volume 900 cu km) is 2.23425E9kg, which is 0.000000000000038% of the mass of the earth. The earth is a spinning spheroid, which means it has gyroscopic inertia and so will tend to resist falling over or otherwise changing its speed or orientation...

What are these guys envisioning, a volcano the size of the moon? Or are they just geologically illiterate?

[ThomasThomas]

The UN must act now to stop this and pass a resolution banning oversized volcano forming far from the equator.

[thackney]

Thanks, we had dinosaurs in Alaska on the North Slope many years ago. Climates do go through change without spinning the axis. I think this author is not very believable.

[Bean Counter]

We are DOOMED I tell You!

DOOMED!!!

[kAcknor]

[13Sisters76]

Goody! I have always wanted snow at Christmas!

[jpsb]

It would take one big volcano! Remember the Earth's core is solid iron the size of Mars. I would not lose to much sleep over this.