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Change Earths Axis of Rotation With This One Weird Trick

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Moonbeam said:
How is doing something that used to take 444 days to do but now only 365 slowing down?
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Because the days had fewer hours. A year still took the same amount of time but the amount of revolutions the Earth made used to be more. Hence the rotation of the Earth (not the length of a year) has slowed down.
 
Darwin333 said:
Because the days had fewer hours. A year still took the same amount of time but the amount of revolutions the Earth made used to be more. Hence the rotation of the Earth (not the length of a year) has slowed down.
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It had the same number of hours per day but fewer minutes per hour... or the same minutes per hour but fewer seconds per minute... OOOR fewer seconds per minute but... GAH!

*head asplode*
 
A day with less than 20 hours is weird indeed.
I wonder if plants enjoy more health with longer or short cycles...
 
We're due for the poles to swap, speculation is that this shift is a precursor, because that event doesn't just happen overnight (the shift in one caused by the swapping of the other). But yeah, "Man-made climate change is messing with the north pole" because there isn't enough environmental fear-mongering going on. 🙄
 
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Moonbeam said:
If it tilts over too far the equator will hit the galactic plane and the earth will spin off into space like a top off a table.
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It already is in space. Do you mean an alternate space, or perhaps, a safe space, like all them college students are seeking? Or....could just be spinning into further enlightenment, moving closer to Moonbeam? 😉
 
compuwiz1 said:
It already is in space. Do you mean an alternate space, or perhaps, a safe space, like all them college students are seeking? Or....could just be spinning into further enlightenment, moving closer to Moonbeam? 😉
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I thought I made what I meant galactically plane.
 
compuwiz1 said:
It already is in space. Do you mean an alternate space, or perhaps, a safe space, like all them college students are seeking? Or....could just be spinning into further enlightenment, moving closer to Moonbeam? 😉
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I thought I made what I meant galactically plane.
 
Miramonti said:
What are all the major implications of a polar axis movement?
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The article didn't specificy. But I think we are taking about millimeters of movement, so nothing. The article also talked about how this happened before when the northern ice sheets were melting at the end of the 1800s. Those melted due to natural exiting of the last ice age. But now if ice melts it is only because of global warming.
 
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Zorba said:
The article didn't specificy. But I think we are taking about millimeter of movement, so nothing. The article also talked about how this happened before when the northern ice sheets were melting at the end of the 1800s. Those melted due to natural exiting of the last ice age. But now if ice melts it is only because of global warming.
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Particularly, man-made global warming.
 
piasabird said:
There is something else called magnetic pole flip. Wouldn't that be interesting?

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html
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Thread title: Earth's axis of rotation...
You do, hopefully, understand that the Earth's North end of the axis of rotation is not the same as the magnetic North pole? This has already been covered in the thread.


Implications: none.
I do, however, find it amazing the precision they can measure this with.
 
Indus said:
Negative Moonbeam. If anything the moon will spin off into space like a top off table. And it's already in the process as it used to be closer to the earth and then we used to have 444 days per year 65 million years ago during the dinosaurs and it's slowed down to 365. Fast Forward another million years and we'll be down to 355 days. Eventually when the moon does spin off, we'll have just 1-2 days a year like venus.
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Well, that's one cool trick to live to 400 years.

:hmm:

How do we handle driving age, drinking age, voting, etc in that kind of world? The prospect of poisoned babies wrecking cars all over the planet and constantly re-electing Smiling-Baby-in-Sun for World Emperor does frighten me a bit. Good news is that we would have effectively eliminated war.
 
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Zorba said:
The article didn't specificy. But I think we are taking about millimeters of movement, so nothing. The article also talked about how this happened before when the northern ice sheets were melting at the end of the 1800s. Those melted due to natural exiting of the last ice age. But now if ice melts it is only because of global warming.
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protip: That event is also called Global Warming.
 
The rotational North Pole moves in inches, the Magnetic Pole moves miles per year. Better first to get ready for the Magnetic Pole reversal with a bit of magnetic chaos in between.
 
WHAMPOM said:
The rotational North Pole moves in inches, the Magnetic Pole moves miles per year. Better first to get ready for the Magnetic Pole reversal with a bit of magnetic chaos in between.
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But that's only a concern for those that believe in magnets, right?

FWIW, I do not believe in magnetss
 
zinfamous said:
But that's only a concern for those that believe in magnets, right?

FWIW, I do not believe in magnetss
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This. Magnets are BS. Where do we find magnets? That's right, the north and south poles and on refrigerators. What is actually happening is that cold sucks.
 
IronWing said:
This. Magnets are BS. Where do we find magnets? That's right, the north and south poles and on refrigerators. What is actually happening is that cold sucks.
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It's the Frigidaire polar magnet conspiracy. The only reason we are made to believe that magnets exist is so that Frigidaire can sell refrigerators!

It's so pervasive, that they have convinced billions of people around the world that storing a giant cold box inside our domiciles is a good idea. People know that cold sucks, but they do it anyway!

fucking magnets!
 
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