On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:25 AM, David Scheidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:24 PM, David Scheidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > He's not making this up. The three Gorges dam (the huge new one in > China) > > is responsible for increasing the day by about 0.06 microseconds, and > > shifting the poles (the axis of rotation, really) a centimeter or two. > It's > > okay, though. The increase in day length was more than made up for by > the > > 2004 earthquake that caused the big tsunami. That shortened the day by > 2.68 > > microseconds. (NASA published a paper about this; it was widely reported > at > > the time. I may have the numbers slight wrong, but I've got their > > magnitudes right.) > > > > > > http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-chile-earthquake-earth-axis-shortened-day/ > Hmmm, I wonder if there has been any research into the mathematics of these slowdowns and speed-ups. Maybe building a enormous dam over here can prevent (or lessen) an earthquake over _there_. Sort of accupressure for Gaia. :) -- Craig Roth [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
