Posted on 11/06/2007 8:48:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The red spots represent places where the Earth's gravity is unusually strong. The blue ones are where it's weak. Not that the force of gravity itself varies. Rather, it's an indication that the Earth's mass distribution isn't quite uniform. Mountain-building in South America and the Himalayas produces dense, red zones; elsewhere, tectonic movements produce thin, blue, ones... Some changes are geological. For example, much of Canada, centred around Hudson Bay, is undergoing "postglacial rebound" as the continental crust slowly rises after being depressed, thousands of years ago, by the weight of Ice Age glaciers. Other changes are related to redistributions of water. Melting ice sheets, heavy rains, changes in soil moisture: all of these shift around enough water to make discernable changes in the Earth's gravitational field. Some of these are signs of global warming. Others provide early warning of floods, crop failures, and aquifer depletion in remote corners of the globe. "Water has weight," says project scientist Michael Watkins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California. "It has gravitational attraction, and GRACE can detect it."
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
“Some of these are signs of global warming.”
Stopped reading right there because there is of course no way to prove this. I have no patience with these people anymore.
Indeed, absent the qualifier, there is a difference "if" one is refering to "fluid ounce" which is a measure of volume.
A few decades ago, especially in the food industry, the distinction was not made and the industry mixed their measurement to suit price conveniences. A can of size 15 1/2 fluid ounces, say of Pringles potatoe chips, would be compared to 16 dry ounces of Lays potatoe chips in a bag in cents/ounce.
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The weight of one pound of rocks would vary with the type of rock (sandstone vs granite).That's difficult to prove.
No surprise there, after all, “The East is Red”. ;’)
Where there is a gravity gradient, there must fe a flow of matter.
Even on a slightly sloped surface, water and marbles roll down hill.
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