Midknight Review -- new and revised: Because of the earthquake in Chile, our days are shorter

NASA scientist Richard Gross claims that the massive 8.8. magnitude Chile earthquake on February 27 may have shifted the Earth’s axis by as much as 8 cm (3 inches) which would be enough to shorten the length of day.

According to NASA website, using a computerised model modeling the earth’s rotation, Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, estimated that the figure axis upon which the Earth’s mass is balanced could have been shifted by the Chile quake, the fifth largest in history, by 2.7 milliarcseconds, equivalent to 8 cm or 3 inches. This occurred because a portion of the earth’s core collapsed swiftly and massively, altering the planet’s equilibrium.

This, in turn, he claims would shorten the length of day by 1.26 microseconds, or 1.26 millionths of a second because the Earth’s rotation would have been speeded up. For Gross, the Chilean quake is likely to have had an even greater effect on the Earth’s figure axis than the larger Sumatra earthquake of 2004 (9.1 on the Richter scale) because the epicentre was located further away from the equator and nearer the mid-latitudes (having a greater lateral effect) and due to the fact that the Chilean fault line (the Nasca Plate) goes deeper down into the Earth’s core. (Source: Pravda )
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The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Because of the earthquake in Chile, our days are shorter - Ah !!! A little less time for Obama.

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