To: grundle
The real question: Is the sea level falling or are the tectonic plates being pushed upwards by 6 mm?
13 posted on
02/08/2012 1:47:03 PM PST by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: RJS1950
"is the ground risin'?"
16 posted on
02/08/2012 1:49:56 PM PST by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: RJS1950
Neither. It's a hidden alien base sitting at the bottom of the ocean consuming our water.
. . . and you all thought that Battle: Los Angeles was just a movie.
HAH! I say it again. HAH!
17 posted on
02/08/2012 1:51:58 PM PST by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: RJS1950
I’d certainly guess that Florida is sinking.
To: RJS1950
The real question: Is the sea level falling or are the tectonic plates being pushed upwards by 6 mm? Actually, that is not the real question. Indeed that question is meaningless.
Satellite based sea level measurements are made with RADAR altimeters or LASER altimeters. The satellite instruments measure distance between the satellite and the sea surface (which is far from level). The satellite is in a known orbit, at a known distance from Earth's center of mass ... difference gives "sea level". The real data processing is somewhat more complex than that, but that's the basic theory of it.
40 posted on
02/08/2012 3:13:59 PM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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