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....

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

The frickin' commercials went longer for me.

That's a special hell unto itself right there.

But I also might have made that up just now.

Sean, Sean. So untrustworthy.

Sean, Sean. So untrustworthy.

I know. Can't believe a word that comes out of my mouth. If I say the sky is blue - check.

Also? The sky is falling here in LA.

Other LAistas might back me up on that one.

Head still hurts. But funny! My nephew just called my parents. See, he likes cell phones. Normally, he just plays with his mom's and ends up speed dialing her mom and one of her friends, both who D will talk to "Mamamamamamama? DOAG! Phone? Hoho?".)

But mom got the call from brother's phone. Heavy breathing and snorkling this time. Then a crash and the fading sounds of "car?"

Heh.

Hey, is this the last TAR? or what. Seems like a retrospective and I have no TV guide.