Earths axis shifted,days shorter says Nasa.

Xluna

Maybe there is something in that 2012 theory. :pac:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100303/twl-powerful-chile-quake-shifted-earth-s-3fd0ae9.html

mike65

you're late! :pac:

Danbo!

you're early!? :pac:

_Whimsical_

I'm going to miss that 6.8 micro seconds it's shaved off each day.

AnonoBoy

So that's why I was late for work this morning.

Excellent. Please excuse me while I go explain to my boss that it had nothing to do with the 7 pints I had last night.

ejmaztec

AnonoBoy wrote: »

So that's why I was late for work this morning.

Excellent. Please excuse me while I go explain to my boss that it had nothing to do with the 7 pints I had last night.

He must be a right bastard if he's worried about 6.8 micro-seconds. Has he got a nuclear Swatch?

biko

For mobiles

The powerful earthquake that killed hundreds of people in Chile on Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis and made days slightly shorter, a Nasa scientist has said.

Richard Gross, a research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, calculated how much the axis may have changed in position following the the disaster.

More than 700 people died and two million are estimated to have been affected by the 8.8-magnitude tremor and subsequent tsunamis.

The quake, the most powerful to hit the nation in 50 years, sent shockwaves out from the epicentre 70 miles from Chile's second city, Concepcion.

Buildings and roads collapsed and 500,000 homes have been left severely damaged.

Six aid workers died when a plane carrying them to Concepcion crashed.

dvpower

ejmaztec wrote: »

He must be a right bastard if he's worried about 6.8 seconds. Has he got a nuclear Swatch?

6.8 microseconds

CreepingDeath

Send all your spirit levels back to the manufacturers and tell them they have to recalibrate them due to the new tilt of the earth.

AnonoBoy

ejmaztec wrote: »

He must be a right bastard if he's worried about 6.8 micro-seconds. Has he got a nuclear Swatch?

Microseconds eh?

Is there any way we can fanagle this into about an hour or so?

It'd help me greatly.

CreepingDeath

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Microseconds eh?

Is there any way we can fanagle this into about an hour or so?

It'd help me greatly.

Yep, you will lose a full hour every 529411 days.

bonerm

So would an earthquake of similar magnitude on the opposite side of the world knock the earth back into line and give us back our lost time? If so, then whilst I'm not exactly wishing death upon the good people of Zhengning province China I would at the same time like to get my 6.8 microsecond morning lie-in back. :mad:

ejmaztec

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Microseconds eh?

Is there any way we can fanagle this into about an hour or so?

It'd help me greatly.

That's when you tell your boss that you've just had to go out and get something from your car, and that you've been in since 7am.

neil_hosey

bonerm wrote: »

So would an earthquake of similar magnitude on the opposite side of the world knock the earth back into line and give us back our lost time? If so, then whilst I'm not exactly wishing death upon the good people of Zhengning province China I would at the same time like to get my 6.8 microsecond morning lie-in back. :mad:

take one for the team like...

Niall Keane

Yep, you will lose a full hour every 529411 days.

yea bet the FF b@st@$ds will take this off the nighttime sometime in July 3460AD and not off the working hours between 9am and 6pm incase it effects taxes and repayments for NAMA!

DrumSteve

Magnus wrote: »

For mobiles

The powerful earthquake that killed hundreds of people in Chile on Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis and made days slightly shorter, a Nasa scientist has said.

Richard Gross, a research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, calculated how much the axis may have changed in position following the the disaster.

More than 700 people died and two million are estimated to have been affected by the 8.8-magnitude tremor and subsequent tsunamis.

The quake, the most powerful to hit the nation in 50 years, sent shockwaves out from the epicentre 70 miles from Chile's second city, Concepcion.

Buildings and roads collapsed and 500,000 homes have been left severely damaged.

Six aid workers died when a plane carrying them to Concepcion crashed

How the **** did the plane crash if it was an earthquake?

alexlyons

DrumSteve wrote: »

How the **** did the plane crash if it was an earthquake?

who said the crash happened during the quake? surely the aid workers were going to help...

and if we're still worried about nama in 3460AD, that hour should be of no concern

admiralofthefleet

any ideas on what to spend the extra microsecond on

DrumSteve

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

any ideas on what to spend the extra microsecond on

sex.

cynder

probably off the mark, but if the polar ice caps melt, doest that affect the axis? are they not begining to melt?

IvyTheTerrible

grindelwald wrote: »

probably off the mark, but if the polar ice caps melt, doest that affect the axis? are they not begining to melt?

I'm not sure about the axis, but there is evidence that melting ice caps will cause more earthquakes, as the extra water in the oceans puts pressure on faults.

o1s1n

DrumSteve wrote: »

How the **** did the plane crash if it was an earthquake?

Who says it didn't crash while it was still on the ground? :pac: