The world really is speeding up...
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Archer 007
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Interesting. Life become even shorter, if only by a trillionth of a second.
I don't think it's all that big of a deal.
But then again, if the Earth will soon go back to slowing down its rotation, does that mean eventually it won't rotate at all and half of Earth will be in perpetual darkness while the other half is in perpetual light, and global water and air currents will litterally dissapear, and the moon will slowly come closer to us, strenthening tides, causing floods in low-lying lands, causing residents to evacuate, forcing them into temporary homes and hotels, raising the demand for car batteries, improving the stocks of such large battery-selling corporations as Energizer and Duracell, giving them such a profit that they'll become rich enough to invest grants into neurological research, eventually learning how to control our minds, making us want to buy more batteries, further worsening the situation by making the companies even wealthier, all the while the moon is slowly heading towards us, and will crash in about half a million years, but before that it'll simply appear huge, which women all over the globe will find sexy, which will cause them to engage in more sex with men, which includes pre-marital sex, meaning more bastard children will be born, further leading to the gradual decline of Western civilization, which will lead Republicans to desperately call for a return to a family-oriented society, further alienating the homosexual community, who are already outraged about frequently being called a "community," after all, it's not like they all live together and know each other, although many do because in most places they're not allowed to marry, so instead of "settling down" they tend to "get around the block," which can spread AIDS, not that I'm suggesting gay people are the cause of the current HIV epidemic, because I don't want to gay-bash, but anyway, the spread of AIDS will cause many people to die, which means less people to put research into anti-moon-coming-closer-to-earth-control devices, which will worsen the moon situation, leading to more batteries, improvement in the hotel industry, severe floods, more bastard children, and an increasing level of AIDS cases, all somehow contributing to worsening the moon situation, oh, and the slowing of the earth's rotation will mean days will be shorter, which will greatly affect work schedules, leading to disgruntled workers, making them want to start a revolution against their oppressors, so then we have that whole communist fiasco all over again, which will lead to the end of the Internet, because "red tyrants" don't want anti-government thoughts quickly spreading from computer to computer, so I won't be able to talk here about the moon and it's effects anymore, and eventually the moon will crash into us and we'll all suffer a horrible death?
But then again, if the Earth will soon go back to slowing down its rotation, does that mean eventually it won't rotate at all and half of Earth will be in perpetual darkness while the other half is in perpetual light, and global water and air currents will litterally dissapear, and the moon will slowly come closer to us, strenthening tides, causing floods in low-lying lands, causing residents to evacuate, forcing them into temporary homes and hotels, raising the demand for car batteries, improving the stocks of such large battery-selling corporations as Energizer and Duracell, giving them such a profit that they'll become rich enough to invest grants into neurological research, eventually learning how to control our minds, making us want to buy more batteries, further worsening the situation by making the companies even wealthier, all the while the moon is slowly heading towards us, and will crash in about half a million years, but before that it'll simply appear huge, which women all over the globe will find sexy, which will cause them to engage in more sex with men, which includes pre-marital sex, meaning more bastard children will be born, further leading to the gradual decline of Western civilization, which will lead Republicans to desperately call for a return to a family-oriented society, further alienating the homosexual community, who are already outraged about frequently being called a "community," after all, it's not like they all live together and know each other, although many do because in most places they're not allowed to marry, so instead of "settling down" they tend to "get around the block," which can spread AIDS, not that I'm suggesting gay people are the cause of the current HIV epidemic, because I don't want to gay-bash, but anyway, the spread of AIDS will cause many people to die, which means less people to put research into anti-moon-coming-closer-to-earth-control devices, which will worsen the moon situation, leading to more batteries, improvement in the hotel industry, severe floods, more bastard children, and an increasing level of AIDS cases, all somehow contributing to worsening the moon situation, oh, and the slowing of the earth's rotation will mean days will be shorter, which will greatly affect work schedules, leading to disgruntled workers, making them want to start a revolution against their oppressors, so then we have that whole communist fiasco all over again, which will lead to the end of the Internet, because "red tyrants" don't want anti-government thoughts quickly spreading from computer to computer, so I won't be able to talk here about the moon and it's effects anymore, and eventually the moon will crash into us and we'll all suffer a horrible death?
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Maybe the earth is getting smoother. Less moments of inertia when it spins.
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WillJ. I think you need a holiday..... or a very, very long lie down.
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The Earth does that to spite ordinary people. Time is already in short supply, so why not make the day shorter? 
Hehe, well, it started out as an honest question (the first few lines), but then it kind of went downhill from there.
Originally posted by carlosMM
WillJ, a link to that goes into my sig right now!
Don't say I didn't warn you... 
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
i thinks its because of momentum, but does momentum exist in space?
Archer 007
Rebirth
And weight is mass times gravity. Space doesnt have gravity, but the sun does. So the outer planets weigh less then they would if they were closer to the Sun.
ProPain
King
@ WillJ's post. And thanks to Carlos for linking to it 
bobgote
Trousers
i've been saying this for years. see, i'm NOT crazy
*puts on tin hat*
Sure, but where's the scale you use to check and make sure?
Martacus
World's Greatest Warrior
Just a crazy bit of wondering: if the earth suddenly, instantaneously stopped rotating, would we all fly off into space at whatever speed the earth had been rotating?
RoddyVR
Veteran Board NESer
no. we would keep moving around the earth (being basicaly dragged along the ground) at the speed its rotating in.
if i figure it correctly, that speed is something like 40000km/24 hours, so about 1000 miles an hour. which would be enough to rip buildings off the ground and send them flying along with us.
basicaly everyone dies a death similar to one achieved by being tied to a jetfighter with a long rope and getting dragged alongthe ground for a while.
if i figure it correctly, that speed is something like 40000km/24 hours, so about 1000 miles an hour. which would be enough to rip buildings off the ground and send them flying along with us.
basicaly everyone dies a death similar to one achieved by being tied to a jetfighter with a long rope and getting dragged alongthe ground for a while.
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