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jindivik

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i don't know if this is true, was on tv on an adver years ago but it said you could fit all the people in the world on the Isle Of Wight (small island off the coast of England)...when i look at it on that scale it doesn't add up to much, only thing i see happening is the grass turning into a glastonbury style mudbath!
 
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yevaud

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Glastonbury Tor is a mudbath?<br /><br />*scratching Glastonbury off my list of places to visit* <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>
 
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cyrostir

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the december 2004 tsunami messed up the rotation by like .01 seconds
 
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najab

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><i>the december 2004 tsunami messed up the rotation by like .01 seconds</i><p>The relationship with Earth's orbit being....?</p>
 
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najab

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<font color="orange">The relationship with Earth's orbit being....?</font><br /><br /><font color="yellow">nothing, i was just saying</font><br /><br />So if, by your own admission, it was completely irrelevant, why say it?
 
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cyrostir

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fine, do you want me to go put a gun to my head now? ok <br /><br />the relavence is that something can affect the earth's physical rotation and or orbit
 
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nacnud

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<font color="orange"><br />Glastonbury Tor is a mudbath?<br /><font color="yellow"><br />*scratching Glastonbury off my list of places to visit*<br /><font color="white"><br />Not the Tor itself but a field nearby, and only for a couple of days a year.</font></font></font>
 
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najab

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><i>the relavence is that something can affect the earth's physical rotation and or orbit</i><p>But the Earth's revolutional and rotational periods have <b>NOTHING</b> to do with each other, as anyone who was paying attention in grade-school science class would know.</p>
 
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cyrostir

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wow they were right, professors really do want to chew you up and spit ya out......
 
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CalliArcale

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Actually, theoretically speaking there is a relationship, albeit one so negligible as to be incalculably small. (In other words, way smaller than undetectable.) The Earth's rotation has a miniscule effect on the Sun's rotation, which in turn has an affect on the Earth's revolution. But it's laughably tiny. Zero point lots and lots of zeros.<br /><br />The tsunami's effect, while much more significant, was still negligible and swamped by other factors. Although the popular press widely reported that the tsunami changed the length of the day, this was merely a theoretical effect, not one which was fully calculated to account for other factors, and certainly not one ever actually measured.<br /><br />For all practical purposes, these events are trivial. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>
 
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bink

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cyrostir posted the comment to put things in perspective i believe. To show how much of a force would be needed in order to alter something as massive as this planet.<br /><br />The revoluton and rotational period are linked to a very small degree. Its not something you really need to know about in grade school science. Everything is linked to everything else (in a way). Cause and effect and all that.<br /><br />To add to CalliArcale is it possible that slowing down the spin of the Earth would cause it to lose energy and so reduce its pull away from the sun?<br />
 
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najab

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><i>To add to CalliArcale is it possible that slowing down the spin of the Earth would cause it to lose energy and so reduce its pull away from the sun? </i><p>Nope. Not by any amount that would be even slightly possible to measure. The size of Earth's orbit is determined by its mass and orbital velocity, not it's rotational speed. Even if you could somehow stop the Earth from rotating, its orbit wouldn't change.</p>
 
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yevaud

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Vermont has an entire portion of the year that they call, "Mud Season." I'd avoid there as well. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>
 
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najab

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1. cryostir said: "have you guys seen this? this is no joke, i think"<br /><br />2. various people pointed out how scientifically ignorant someone would have to be to believe it.<br /><br />3. cryostir then said: "ya that site looked a little fake"<br /><br />4. najaB said: <img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
 
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alokmohan

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Not clear.If you admit it is theorical effect then it is true also .It may not have been measured.
 
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najab

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><i>It may not have been measured.</i><p>More importantly, it isn't possible to measure it. The effect is <b>so</b> slight that on human timescales it's impossible to tell it apart from measurement error or random variation. If you had a few million years worth of measurements, maybe then you could make it out.</p>
 
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