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To: #3Fan
260 cubic miles of ice collecting on the South pole per year. A lot of weight not perfectly balanced. :^)
133 posted on 11/27/2002 10:51:40 AM PST by #3Fan
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To: #3Fan; blam
260 cubic miles of ice collecting on the South pole per year. A lot of weight not perfectly balanced. :^)

I'm thinking of the washing machine, when you have clothes in the 'spin' cycle and there's a pair of jeans wadded up on one side.

The 'clunk clunk clunk' you can hear from the other side of the house caused by the imbalance.

As I see it, this *has* to happen to a spinning ball like the Earth as ice builds up. And computers should be able to give some very good ideas as to the how, when, where.

The one big question to me is, what about the acceleration from such a momentum change? Wouldn't that destroy all buildings, throw people miles, etc?

We now know 'gravity' is actually curvature of the 'fabric' of the universe. Is it possible something about gravity prevents us from such acceleration changes outside our slice of 'space/time'?

139 posted on 11/27/2002 11:35:11 AM PST by Dominic Harr
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