Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth

[BrklynLiberal]

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.

The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

"Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update.

The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

[Lasher]

1. Hey, maybe that solved the problem with global warming.

The earth just healed itself.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. lol

[Statistical]

3. Unless it pushed us 3 inches closer to the sun. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Quite the opposite - we are now spinning faster, and as anyone knows

faster moving objects generate more heat than slower moving objects. Global warming just got WORSE!!!!!!

[Lasher]

7. Oh no, now the earth is like that dish that turns when the microwave is on!

We're toast. Scientists need to think of something quick, like everybody in Russia jumping up and down at the same time.

[FBaggins]

4. Oh nuts! As if the days didn't already seem to be getting shorter and shorter

now I have to deal eith even fewer milliseconds?

Who can I appeal this to?

[BrklynLiberal]

6. The legislature of S. Dakota.

link coming

tada........
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=233777&mesg_id=233777

[NNadir]

8. The effect offsets the slowing of the earth's rotation due to high mountain reservoirs.