Yep, (southwest FL, to be clear) 35 degrees here this morning here on de island.. nearly as cold as I've ever seen it here in 11 years. must be the end of the world, fo sho! 24?? never here on coast, but inland a bit, yes.
SOME OF YOU GUYS NEED TO KNITTING GATOR MITTENS JUST FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT THEM ON THEM--LET ME CALL THE SWAMP PEOPLE---TDD
FINALLY!!!!, somebody has figured out the cause....
of global warming.
IT'S NOT AS HARD AS IT IS TO PUT PANTYHOSE ON A BOBCAT IN A PHONE BOOTH!;-)
Boo!
duane your a copycat--sicilian cowboy beat ya to it---your both Mensa candidates for sure---tdd
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Be assured, at the northern latitudes all seems well with the cosmos.
I was thinking of your mental anguish and paranoia with the upsetting of the solar positions in your yard as I drove across town for a meeting.
At a few minutes before local solar noon, while at a stoplight for a road on a meridian of south, the center of our solar system was at its normal 10 degrees above the horizon and right on line... See for yourself... Maybe you could park yourself on an south facing meridian, armed with a calibrated time piece, and see what you observe tomorrow.
But do not fret my Comy-rado comrade, it looks like the cosmos is all in order!
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Wouldn't a simple solar observation prove this out one way or another? If Ted is right, seems to me the calculation for azimuth would not work.
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No need for that. In order to create a shift of the magnitude TDD is talking about, the amount of energy required would be so incredibly immense that it would have created planet-wide cataclysms far worse than any that have ever hit our planet, including the hypothetical collision that blasted a chunk of the Earth into orbit to form our moon. There's no possible way it could have gone ignored.
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> No need for that. In order to create a shift of the magnitude TDD is talking about, the amount of energy required would be so incredibly immense that it would have created planet-wide cataclysms far worse than any that have ever hit our planet, including the hypothetical collision that blasted a chunk of the Earth into orbit to form our moon. There's no possible way it could have gone ignored.
Yup, there's some serious angular momentum in a spinning ball of rock 8000 miles in diameter.
TDD I don't know what mensa is, but I apologize. Didn't mean to inflict a Boo Boo.
Heck, I'm glad you explained the situation, I thought it was the water making me dizzy.
But I agree, the world as we knew it has ended in so many ways. Hard to say what tomorrow will bring.
Duane
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absolutely! thanks. I'm pretty sure they have shown that sort of event has happened in the distant past, I do think we'd notice..
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now some of you are einstin's ????
the same folks that couldn;t figure out the patriot act, obamacare, even our constitution have figured out the big shift--yeah right---tdd
MAJOR POLE SHIFT?
You start a post like this and then question other people's metal abilities......that's gall.
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> absolutely! thanks. I'm pretty sure they have shown that sort of event has happened in the distant past, I do think we'd notice..
Well, in a sense...
According to current theory and computer simulations, planetary rotation pretty much gets set during the planet formation. At some point, a couple of very large masses fall into each other's gravitational pull, spinning around each other until they merge and form a single body. The rotation of the remaining body is largely determined by the way those initial bodies collide.
Once a planet hits a certain size, it mostly maintains its rotation, even if it gets hit by a pretty large additional chunk of material. For example, one theory holds that the moon was actually ejected from the Earth during a large collision. Even though this collision was large enough to form the Moon, it didn't much change the rotation of the Earth, and the Moon got ejected along much the same path as the planet's rotation. Net result is we have a Moon that spins roughly around the Earth's equator, with an orbit in the same direction as the Earth's rotation. There's an awful lot of energy tied up in the Earth's angular momentum, and it would take something truly immense to change it.
The magnetic poles, on the other hand, seem to be more fluid...
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That's a great picture. Looking south along a north-south road at noon. Is Anchorage in the center of it's time zone? The sun is centerpunching that road.
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i guess iceland isn't in the northern region----
you guys have been "seeing russia from there" too long--tdd
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That road is darn near right on 150 degrees W longitude. Our time zone longitude is 135W, with daylight savings time, local solar noon is 1pm at 150. In the summer it is 2pm AST local solar noon.
BTW Ted, our worst Governor ever, Sarah the quitter, was at COSTCO signing books on Saturday. Accounts were that only 200 people showed up, there were probably 200 other people trying to get their shopping done at COSTCO that were totally pi$$ed that that whiner, and ex-Alaska, was there to try to convince us that she is a real Alaskan... Not...
I think that all you people that gave Ted hard time about this owe him an apology.
Good job Ted.
