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Interesting Article thanks for posting it
I’m for ANYTHING that shortens my workday!
Lol
Oh so the mods are around…
“Chili Earthquake”
Sounds delicious!
boredjewishguy: you sound bored! dont bother with Chili now. you can have cholent on Shabbos!
There is actually a Jewish community in santiago, Chile.
cool article
I had a professor in Graduate School who was a Chilean Jew. His family had had to flee Pinochet.
Even meteorites and meteors which strike the earth slow things down because their added mass must now spin with the Earth.
(All change numbers related to building tall buildings are so infinitesimal that they are probably immeasurable)
To put things in perspective – even if the details are true they are insignificant. The rotational speed of the Earth is variable. If this same earthquake happened 1 million more times, we would need to add one negative leap second once per year. Currently we already add around 6/10 of a positive leap second per year (and one would offset the other).
The impact of this event is infinitesimal at the astronomical level; I’m not sure why it is having a greater impact at the blogging level. This branch of science is almost never really exciting, despite attempts to hype it.
Oh, it’s interesting. But I’m a science geek who finds protein folding and metallurgy fascinating.
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