http://content.usatoday.com/communi...thquake-shifted-earth-axis-shorter-day-nasa/1very interesting read. in addition the quake that took out the japanese nuke plant knocked the planet 1.5 degrees (from memory so don't condemn me if my remcaller isn't accurate) off axis...seems things the planet does, all on it's own, really makes it in control. and we think we can stop the planet from doing whatever it wants to do thru some puny attempt or a paris accord. what a hoot
Earth's radius is approximately 251 million inches; a shift of 6.5" is about 1.5 * 10^-6 degrees. Don't worry, you were only off by a factor of one million. And it's not a shift of the average axial position, just a change in the wobble; nothing on earth could cause a net change (as the above article notes). Close enough for government work, as they say.The 9.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Japan also shortened Earth's day by just over one-millionth of a second (1.8 microseconds to be exact), according to NASA. It also shifted the Earth's axis by about 6.5 inches.
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The quake also shifted the position of the Earth's "figure" axis (which is different from the planet's north-south axis). This shift in Earth's figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it won't cause a shift of the Earth's axis in space -- only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets could do that.
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"The position of Earth's figure axis also changes all the time, by about 3.3 feet over the course of a year, or about six times more than the change that should have been caused by the Japan quake."
and of courese we all know google has no bias at all LOL
If only we could all be blessed with your liberal elitist world view. Don't you have an old Obama calendar you can jerk off to ? Maybe some Bernie porn? Either way you should go back to doing your favorite thing instead of you second favorite thing which is blessing us with you unfailing wisdomlivescience.com is a well know, and proven, scam site that ignores real science. So, a perfect site for right-wingers.
So...how does Google's bias affect the radius of the earth? Does it make the reported number bigger or smaller? Or does it just affect the conversion from miles to inches?and of courese we all know google has no bias at all LOL
Agreed that eventually fossil fuels will probably go away on their own, no matter what, but the key difference between Liberals and Conservatives on this is that Liberals love to ignore basic economic forces in an effort to craft their own more "ideal" circumstances. Instead of waiting for natural economic forces like supply/demand and attendant cost adjustments to make alternative sources economically competitive, a select group of "experts" want decide what is best for the economy and then ordain which fuels may be used and how and when. Right now, the only way for most alternative sources to be even close to competing is via massive subsidies - that's not a long term sustainable solution.
1) You choose "remcall" a figure, even when you could find an accurate number in about thirty seconds with tools already at your fingertipshey ahole, i said i was remcalling in the original post. and what will you do if we kabosh fossil fuels? there will be no ambulances to chase
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