The Day The Earth Fell Over

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

[RightWhale]

We used to discuss this idea when I was a kid 50 years ago. So did Albert Einstein, although he wasn't a kid then. It could happen.

[RightWhale]

This one is a sudden shift of the crust. It would happen in a day and then some time to settle down. It will be a rough ride.

[DManA]

What if everyone in N. America jumped at the same time. That'd probably do it too.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Conjecture is sometimes fun. We can have fun with this. **

1)If an eruption from a little normal volcano like Pinatubo is not great enough, a super volcano eruption that like the Yellowstone caldera deposits enough to create the imbalance.

2) Or, global warming due Chinese pollution heats the ocean surface. the increased evaporation precipitates as increased snow at high latitudes, and the resulting continental glacier unbalances the earth causing it to shift.*

3) A large asteroid strike, such as the one that created the giant crater just north of the Yucatan, and happening at a point in the ocean shallow and the crust is thin? Large super-volcano.

4) A sudden split in the north end of the rift valley in Africa. Water rushes in, fills the rift. The additional weight puts strains on the rift, fissures result, volcanoes grow, ash blocks the sun, global warming and/or cooling results, lava deposits, continental glaciers, death, finger pointing, and settled gloom follow.

*It is predicted that in each instance the shift will occur towards the left as you face east on the equator.
**For discussion purposes only, do not base your personal cosmology or risk your academic standing upon any theory mentioned above.

[gogogodzilla]

Soooo.... If the entire population of China and India were to migrate to Australia, the world would flip over?

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 2006. I think we had a similar topic, but I'm not going to dig for it.

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[djf]

Yup. Howard A. Boardman.

I have it in softcover.

Problem is, according to most theorists, their is just too much angular momentum at the equator, and then there is the equatorial bulge.

But anybody who’s watched spinning tops and such can testify that they sometimes do some damn odd things, completely jumping upside down, strange precessions, etc.

Who knows? Maybe there is some weird effect when the magnetic poles line up with the astronomical poles.

No matter that, that book has a lot of science in it. And questions. Some very good questions. Many unanswered.