The massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say.
The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/02/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1
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By: Blue_2 - 3rd March 2010 at 13:27
Indeedy! And a fine effort by all concerned 🙂
By: Red Hunter - 3rd March 2010 at 12:45
And the story deserved all our efforts……..
By: Blue_2 - 3rd March 2010 at 12:24
Hell life’s too short not to! 😀
By: frankvw - 3rd March 2010 at 12:17
Unfortunately, you guys wasted more than the time you’d gain over a lifetime responding to this 😀
By: Red Hunter - 3rd March 2010 at 11:39
It was nearly light outside, when I got up this morning but I automatically switched on the light, thereby wasting electricity, because there was no Met Office warning that it was getting light earlier.
By: Blue_2 - 3rd March 2010 at 08:55
Well that’s a relief, I’d have hated to be caught out by some darkness creeping up on me unexpectedly at the end of the day! 😀
By: chuck1981 - 2nd March 2010 at 22:52
So how come the Met office have just issued a early darkness warning for tomorrow night??
If I may ask, “A WHAT?”
Seems to me people would be able to tell by opening their eyes, but I know that people are wholly incapable of helping themselves anymore, so I am not really surprised.
By: spitfireman - 2nd March 2010 at 21:45
So how come the Met office have just issued a early darkness warning for tomorrow night??
By: rdc1000 - 2nd March 2010 at 18:25
Probably about .42 microseconds if you assume you normally sleep for 8 hours/day
IF (:o) I’ve done my calculations correctly then this means that we will loose a day every 188 years (rounded), so do we need to have a new type of leap year every 188 years? It’s something they need to think about, otherwise, after about 17,300 years, Spring will end up in summer, summer in winter..etc etc. That’d just be confusing:eek:
OK, so I realised I got the calculation wrong as I was using full seconds, not microseconds.
By: rdc1000 - 2nd March 2010 at 18:23
I’m going to be losing a lot of sleep over this:eek::rolleyes::D
Probably about .42 microseconds if you assume you normally sleep for 8 hours/day
By: Last Lightning - 2nd March 2010 at 16:23
I’m going to be losing a lot of sleep over this:eek::rolleyes::D
By: rdc1000 - 2nd March 2010 at 16:06
IF (:o) I’ve done my calculations correctly then this means that we will loose a day every 188 years (rounded), so do we need to have a new type of leap year every 188 years? It’s something they need to think about, otherwise, after about 17,300 years, Spring will end up in summer, summer in winter..etc etc. That’d just be confusing:eek:
By: Red Hunter - 2nd March 2010 at 14:34
Work out your microsecond rate to see how much pay you’ll lose per year!:D
By: Flygirl - 2nd March 2010 at 14:29
Life changing then. 😀
By: rdc1000 - 2nd March 2010 at 14:28
Knowing my boss, I’l still work the same length of time, but will get 1.26 microseconds less in bed!
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