Re: How the Sun Will Rise in the West LOL!
Reply #3 - August 26, 2009, 03:30 PM
Huh, if the earth suddenly stopped (as it would have to before changing course)..... We would all fly off at 1.5 times the speed of sound.
Like if you are standing on a car, and it suddenly hit the brakes.
Here is the funny thing, the senario he is putting forward, it would happen slowly...but still be a surprise?
and what "scientists" is he talking about? Nobody says this.
Yes, the roation of the earth is slowing down..... relative to an atomic clock by about 0.002 seconds per day.
For the earth to slow to the point where it stopped it would take over a billion years. As an example, look at venus where a day is as long as a year. But we dont even need to worry about that, because eventually, the Earth's rotation will slow down so much that the bulge will line up exactly between the centers of the Earth and the Moon. When this happens, the Moon will no longer be pulling the bulge back, and the Earth's spin will stop slowing.
To actually change the Earth's rotation, you would need an insanely catastrophic force...Like along the lines of a collision with another friggen planet.
Who are these scientists, he's getting his info from?
The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
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