I just thought if we all jumped up and down on Everest we could squash
it down into the ground and speed the world back up again. In that way
we could get it back in sync with real time, I mean atomic time. Or
maybe use any of the spare NASA rocket boosters securely attached to
the earth and
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 13:54, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
In message 3209.12.6.201.213.1310686158.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com,
J. For
ster writes:
If you got all the Chinese to just stand on a chair, it would increase the
Moment of Inertia of the earth a smitch, and it
p...@phk.freebsd.dk said:
2. It really does not change the momentum that much:
m(pop,china) = 1.5e9 * 50kg = 7.5e10 kg
m(earth) = 5.97e24 kg
A ratio of roughly 8e13...
Neat. Thanks.
I think you missed another big factor. The height of a chair is tiny
relative to the
1E14 we might be able to notice
Hal,
No. Look at the adev of the earth (earlier posting). The length of earth day
varies in the *milli*second range, day to day. VLBI measurements are under 0.1
millisecond, which comes to about 1e-9 resolution.
Realize that none of the NASA earthquake may
t...@leapsecond.com said:
No. Look at the adev of the earth (earlier posting). The length of earth day
varies in the *milli*second range, day to day. VLBI measurements are under
0.1 millisecond, which comes to about 1e-9 resolution.
Realize that none of the NASA earthquake may have shortened
On 7/14/11 10:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message3209.12.6.201.213.1310686158.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com, J. For
ster writes:
If you got all the Chinese to just stand on a chair, it would increase the
Moment of Inertia of the earth a smitch, and it would slow the rotation
because of
On 7/15/11 12:10 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
Does anybody have a good graph for summer vs winter? I'd expect snow loading
might be big enough to show up.
This is the kind of thing that Richard Gross at JPL fools with. As I
recall, atmospheric drag changes on a cyclical basis too. And
On 7/15/11 12:48 AM, Tom Van Baak (lab/iPad) wrote:
1E14 we might be able to notice
Hal,
No. Look at the adev of the earth (earlier posting). The length of earth day
varies in the *milli*second range, day to day. VLBI measurements are under 0.1
millisecond, which comes to about 1e-9
In message 4e203b6e.8090...@earthlink.net, Jim Lux writes:
On 7/14/11 10:54 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I think to do this kind of thing on a detectable scale with manmade
cause, we'll need to resort to some serious terraforming (bwahaha..
project plowshare, here I come)
You could probably
Given the monosex culture the Chinese population has set itself
upon, just spread a rumor that there are abundant single women in
the Himalayas that are looking for dates.
-Chuck Harris
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message4e203b6e.8090...@earthlink.net, Jim Lux writes:
On 7/14/11 10:54 PM,
So?
That statement clearly imlies the Earth's period was shortened aganst some
standard.
If the Earth was the standard, how could it be shortened with respect to
itself?
It can't be. Time standards are atomic now.
-John
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Calculations indicate that by changing the
Maybe we will end up taking away leap-seconds soon. Just a random
thought given the amount of seismic activity currently going on in the
world.
Steve (Quakecity, New Zealand)
On 15 July 2011 01:40, J. Forster j...@quik.com wrote:
So?
That statement clearly imlies the Earth's period was
measurement
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Axis
So?
That statement clearly imlies the Earth's period was shortened aganst some
standard.
If the Earth was the standard, how could it be shortened with respect to
itself?
It can't be. Time standards
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So?
That statement clearly imlies the Earth's period was shortened aganst
: [time-nuts] Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved
Axis
On 15 July 2011 02:08, Rob Kimberley r...@timing-consultants.com wrote:
However, atomic time and earth time effectively drift apart, and
that is why periodically we have leap seconds to bring the two closer
together again. So we
On 7/14/11 6:40 AM, J. Forster wrote:
So?
That statement clearly imlies the Earth's period was shortened aganst some
standard.
If the Earth was the standard, how could it be shortened with respect to
itself?
It can't be. Time standards are atomic now.
-John
You've raised an interesting
So what is the Allan deviation of the earth spinning? :)
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So what is the Allan deviation of the earth spinning? :)
I calculated allan/mod-allan on the Bulletin A data some years back,
it's not exactly pretty.
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So what is the Allan deviation of the earth spinning? :)
http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/
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Anyone got a big file so we can cut those Himalayas down, I'm sure
they are creating a lot of drag :)
Steve
On 15 July 2011 04:01, Tom Van Baak (lab/iPad) t...@leapsecond.com wrote:
So what is the Allan deviation of the earth spinning? :)
http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/
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So what is the Allan deviation of the earth spinning? :)
http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/
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So what is the Allan deviation of the earth spinning? :)
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On 14/07/11 18:12, Steve Rooke wrote:
Anyone got a big file so we can cut those Himalayas down, I'm sure
they are creating a lot of drag :)
Take your Dremel and a few spare bits and cut it loose. :)
Moving that mass closer into the core would cause some spin-up. Still,
the other effects
On 15 July 2011 07:38, Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote:
On 14/07/11 18:12, Steve Rooke wrote:
Anyone got a big file so we can cut those Himalayas down, I'm sure
they are creating a lot of drag :)
Take your Dremel and a few spare bits and cut it loose. :)
Moving that mass
On 7/14/2011 2:02 PM, Steve Rooke wrote:
Well, if everyonel climbed Everest and we all jumped up and down
together, perhaps we could achieve that :)
Cheers, Steve
I can't resist moving this off-topic thread by a giant leap.
I have a 1969 R. Crumb comic book starring Fritz the Cat. In one
Why do you need them to jump at all?
If you got all the Chinese to just stand on a chair, it would increase the
Moment of Inertia of the earth a smitch, and it would slow the rotation
because of the Conservation of Angular Momentum.
-John
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On 7/14/2011 2:02 PM, Steve Rooke
In message 3209.12.6.201.213.1310686158.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com, J. For
ster writes:
If you got all the Chinese to just stand on a chair, it would increase the
Moment of Inertia of the earth a smitch, and it would slow the rotation
because of the Conservation of Angular Momentum.
1. It's
Calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth's mass,
the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster,
shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth20110314.html
Will
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