I've been a terrible influence on your life...

oh, you're the one that made her a tool mixtape?

no, but if I did, Ænima would be the first and only track.

Man, what a disaster!! I was partying at the beach by the time of the quake, it was really scary...We were lucky that there was no tsunami where we were... My family was at home in Santiago they told me they thought they were gonna die...

I'm glad you're ok ybag_girl.

Unfortunately hundreds of thousands lost their home. Fucking nature!

SHHHilenoh, cuidense mucho

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days

The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day.

JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth's rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis. Gross calculates the quake should have moved Earth's figure axis (the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced) by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters, or 3 inches). Earth’s figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet).

By comparison, Gross said the same model estimated the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake should have shortened the length of day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted Earth's axis by 2.32 milliarcseconds (about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches).

Gross said that even though the Chilean earthquake is much smaller than the Sumatran quake, it is predicted to have changed the position of the figure axis by a bit more for two reasons. First, unlike the 2004 Sumatran earthquake, which was located near the equator, the 2010 Chilean earthquake was located in Earth's mid-latitudes, which makes it more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis. Second, the fault responsible for the 2010 Chiliean earthquake dips into Earth at a slightly steeper angle than does the fault responsible for the 2004 Sumatran earthquake. This makes the Chile fault more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis.

Gross said the Chile predictions will likely change as data on the quake are further refined.

once filled with water, the Three Gorges Dam in China will lengthen our day by 60 billionths of a second.

it all comes out in the wash.

I watched some show the other day on the science channel that said the moon is moving away from the earth. The moon's orbit diameter increases by 1.5" per year. They say this makes the days a little longer. so i guess it does even out.

yes, one day the moon will be gone.

this won't happen before Mars' two moons crash into its surface, cracks a chunk off, and sends it flying our way.

it's all happened before. how do you think the moon was formed?

.....gawd I wish I could watch Phobos and Deimos fall.

Give and take. That's all life is.

flotz, when we upload our consciousness onto highly self-repairing android bodies we can enjoy the moons crashing on mars.

the moon will "soon" (in universe terms) be too far out to properly cover the sun during eclipses. then, instead of a perfect eclipse, we will see a ring of fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeh Sweet aboot tha moon. Hope them chilli motherfuckas is ok. If not i wil arrivez soon and kiull thems myselves, 2 make up for wat nature cannut doez.

I'll be refusing the data-transfer.

messing with my registry has corrupted it, and most days, I dont even care to boot up.

you needs to defragment yrself before you wreck yrself

Fucking aftershocks get the fuck out the fucking country!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!

Es bueno saber que estas bien, en que playa estabas?... Pucha mi Curicó es muy triste verlo, da pena...
Lo mas horrible que aun continuan las replicas y son fuertes...
Bueno ahora apoyar a la gente que lo perdio todo nomas
Cuidate

I envy all you SYGers in Chile. I mean I've got a lot to say mahalo for, but with all of those tsunamis you little dudes and dudettes just got a chance to surf the perfect wave. And that is just tasty.

Estaba en Las Cruces.