-------- In message <canczdfrmzxoomfj9dbx2fas1t3ynryjx-gpc+djkfbmw2gv...@mail.gmail.com> , Warner Losh writes:
>what about the effects of glacial melt? Can LOD changes be tied to that? I did some math on that long time ago, and got a negative. *) The ice is quite close to the axis of rotation *) The melt water gets distributed over much bigger surface area than the ice. *) The change in altitude is very moderate compared to earth radius *) The mass is very small relative to earth mass. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
