Japan quake shifted earth's axis by 25 cm. Earth’s rotation will now shift at a different speed.

National Post ^ | March 2011 | Carmen Chai

[Boogieman]

“And to think, if we were still under Levitical Law, Harold Camping would have already had two appointments with many many thrown stones in an open field somewhere...”

Hmmm, maybe the Christian soothsayer’s rule is “Let he who really knows the date of the Apocalypse cast the first stone”?

[Boogieman]

“The world already ended back in the 13th century.”

There are some other FReepers who have assured me it all ended in 70 AD. So confusing...

[LachlanMinnesota]

I was thinking maybe Obama was trying to re-balance the Earth by hammering lead into Libya.

[catnipman]

“How much energy is required to move the earth by that tiny amount? I would posit that it is more energy than has been release by man in the entire history of man.”

Yeah, this is old “news” about this Italian claim. Total nonsense. Which axis? magnetic? actual rotational axis? What shifted? the core? the crust? what?

The crust is so thin compared to the earth’s total volume, that an actual shift of the rotational axis would cause enough energy to be released that the crust would simply come apart at the seams within seconds, producing massive earthquakes and volcanoes that would wipe out practically every living creature except bacteria within a few minutes.

F**king Italian “scientists”. Bleh.

[tsowellfan]

Ok, but the real question is: how does this affect the 2012 Mayan Calendar end of the world prediction?

Our President is seeing to it that it does not.

[Beowulf9]

“Only after centuries would a second be lost as each day is shortened by a millionth of a second...”

Which is why they will cut Social Security and make us work longer for less money.

[Ezekiel]

All I want to know is how much of a shift do we need to fling jihadis off into space?

Whatever it takes. After all, it's way past time for the sequel!

[L,TOWM]

Nahh... The stone casting is what ended in 70 AD.

[JRios1968]

“Ten inches sounds like quite a lot when you hold a ruler in front of you. But if you think of it in terms of the earth as a whole, it’s absolutely tiny; it’s minute,” she said.

There.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SeekAndFind.

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[GregB]

O no not on my birthday...