cute nephew, Sara!
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 28, 2004 3:17:00 pm PST #1010 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
tommyrot - Dec 28, 2004 3:18:44 pm PST #1011 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was born before Cindy. The Earth moved slower then.
No, it was moving faster. Overall the earth continues to slow down. This speedup is just a short-term exception to that.
And the moon continues to move away from the earth. (This is in fact related to the earth slowing down.) At some point in the future the moon will be too far from the earth to cause a total eclipse of the sun.
SailAweigh - Dec 28, 2004 3:20:30 pm PST #1012 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
At some point in the future the moon will be too far from the earth to cause a total eclipse of the sun.
Also, it will be too far away to keep us from not flipping end-over-end constantly. Gonna be a lot of fun when that happens.
tommyrot - Dec 28, 2004 3:23:12 pm PST #1013 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The day has been getting longer and longer by about 0.0016 seconds each century. >[link]Oh, so it will take more than half a century for the earth to slow down to the speed it was before the earthquake.
Also, it will be too far away to keep us from not flipping end-over-end constantly.I'm sure we will have giant magnets embedded in the earth's crust to prevent that....
Sean K - Dec 28, 2004 3:25:02 pm PST #1014 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I was born before Cindy. The Earth moved slower then.
No, it was moving faster.
Well, I hear that, before the rock-what-would-become-the-moon hit us, they think we were spinning pretty slowly. But Gus probably isn't that old. Not that "Older than the Moon" doesn't have wicked cool potential.
SailAweigh - Dec 28, 2004 3:25:10 pm PST #1015 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
giant magnets embedded in the earth's crust to prevent that....
We already have that, tommy, it's called an iron core. More likely, huge supercooled magnets placed in geosynchronous orbit around the earth, to replace the gravitational pull of the moon.
tommyrot - Dec 28, 2004 3:26:48 pm PST #1016 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, I hear that, before the rock-what-would-become-the-moon hit us, they think we were spinning pretty slowly.
Huh. Haven't heard that. How do they know?
Sean K - Dec 28, 2004 3:29:43 pm PST #1017 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Dunno. I might have made that up just now.
But I also remember watching a Science channel thing about computer modelling of the impact to try and figure out just how it happened. I might have seen it there, though I also suspect that before that the particular spin of the Earth was rather irrelevant.
But I also might have made that up just now.
Gus - Dec 28, 2004 3:35:54 pm PST #1018 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
OK, The Earth was peppier when I was a wee lad. That means Cindy's advertisements were mostly shorter than mine. The frickin' commercials went longer for me.
My experience will be richer, by a full day of commerical brainwashing.
Sean K - Dec 28, 2004 3:41:02 pm PST #1019 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The frickin' commercials went longer for me.
That's a special hell unto itself right there.