On Mar 2, 2010, at 11:17 AM, It's just a ride wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/02/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1 > > March 2, 2010 8:24 a.m. EST > (CNN) -- 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. Oh, really. There is just no way on earth any computer could measure a length of time that small--and who gives a poop about one one/millionth of a second anyway? Sal
