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Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
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Posted on 04/16/2024 6:20:59 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: iamgalt
Wow, that is BS on another levelNo, it's like a skater that pulls his arms in to spin faster, lets them extend to slow down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum#Conservation_of_angular_momentum
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: iamgalt
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:00:04 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Tucker39
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:00:34 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
We have some seriously math challenged Freepers today.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:01:59 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: skimbell
I know that a cubic foot of water is heavier than a cubic foot of ice.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:03:01 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: hinckley buzzard
Trust the Science!The Science is right, it's the NEWS than can't report correctly half the time.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:04:03 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Seraphicaviary
What is the mechanism for slowing or accelerating rotation?I just posted it...
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:05:30 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: MNDude
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:06:09 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Ne supra crepidam)
To: Elsie
True...water will expand when freezing so lop off the extra to keep it at 1cubic foot ..and viola... frozen water at 1 cubic foot will weigh less than 1 cubic foot of water at liquid state...
Yeah I know...the autist in me had go thru the thought process...so sue me!
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:07:35 PM PDT
by
mdmathis6
(A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
To: MNDude
I’m waiting for someone to declare climate change will cause the earth’s magnetic poles to flip.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:07:40 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
(Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
To: zeugma
The melting polar ice is a mass close to the axis the earth spins around. As the ice melts, it flows DOWNHILL to the ocean, where the seas gradually rise (mass is moving!) the mean radius of the earth is now slightly larger, thus, to conserve the angular momentum, the spinn rate slows down.
Ya got an office chair that spins freely?
Try it your self!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-spinning-chair/
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:09:52 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: zeugma
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:10:05 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Uncle Miltie
I think only thing rising that fast is the pile of sh*t spouted
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:10:30 PM PDT
by
dkGba
To: MNDude
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:13:23 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: mdmathis6
And let the lawyers get some of my money?
No way, Dude!
We’ll settle outta court. Maybe over a couple of beers.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:13:28 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Nachoman
I don't know if we know what actually causes this.
I know that I don't know!
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:14:34 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Uncle Miltie
Al Gore has said that “sea level could be rising as much as 20 feet in the near future.” How much lower can Lake Bonneville go?
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:15:48 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Click link for full size
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:30:19 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Climate change is a hoax and these things don’t really apply. Big deal!
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:30:59 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
To: Elsie
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:49:29 PM PDT
by
mdmathis6
(A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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