NASA scientists say the massive earthquake that shook Chile last week may have tilted our planet’s axis by 3 inches. This new tilt will actually shorten our days by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
Natural disasters have tilted Earth before. In 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake that caused a monstrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean shortened the length of our days by 6.8 microseconds.
Uh oh,this might bad. Could this mean the earth’s almost toward the end?
UUMMMM NO
no it couldn’t. it just means this is no fairy tale land.
absolutly not
what does this have to do with the end of the earth?
god will decide when the earth ends
that is crazy
less school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m with you… Yay!!!
no,just 1.26 microseconds away from sleeping.
That’s cool!
that is so awesome!
What does he mean the tilt shortened our days? Also why should i care about 1.26 microseconds? Just saying
Cool in a million years a day will dissapear! But since the world hasn’t seen a million years yet, I don’t think it will.
FAR OUT!
that’s interesting!!
YAY exepte for the part about us falling off.
THis is my name in MOHH2
…In a way it’s terrifying, but in another way, it’s frightening…what’s a better word?
This doesn’t mean the earth is near the end, but a shift of less than 1/1000th of a degree formed the sahara desert.
Mabye our planets axis is tilted because of quakes.
Of course the worlds not ending. *in a mock serious voice*- it’s not 2012 yet!
I don’t think this is true
That’s cool. Oh, and BTW Nin*gorin, the Earth is 4.6 billion (or million, I can’t remember which) old.
Hey, chessmaster, you forgot that not everybody thinks the earth is that old. People who believe a God created the world (like me) think that it’s about 8000 years old.
thats all 1.26 microseconds?
It won’t mean less school, (sadly) it just means less daylight for stuff like camping (also sadly)
it is only 1.26 microseconds. it probably won’t effect our lives our human mind can’t calculate that extremely short measurement of time, unless there is a planet-wide quake to, make some big change of time.
like they say it’s so short you probaly can’t even think of that number in that time frame.