The days really are going by faster!!!!

[Doughknob]

SO now that you 'splained it I would have to say that the Earth should be slowing down since we are depleting it's flywheel...
and THAT's a fact!

Well, it depends on many factors we are probably not aware of so we likely cannot debate this intelligently but when a figure skater pulls her arms "in" the mass is closer to the center and she spins faster. So I see this as us taking mass out of the earth's surface (compared to the vast depth of the planet) and thus, in effect, doing the same thing as concentrating more mass near the center. That should make it spin faster just like the figure skate pulling her arms in and going faster.

However, when we burn the oil we put the mass up higher (in the atmosphere) where it still weighs the same (since matter cannot be destroyed, but only changed form) as a gas and particulates instead of liquid on (or just below) the surface. If this is truly the case, then YOU are correct in that it should be slowing down since the mass is now further out. I just do not know how our atmosphere and its "drag" (or lack thereof) on the rotation actually works........

 

[Doughknob]

The mountain glaciers are melting and the water is returning to sea level. Just like a skater pulling their arms in during a twirl, the redistribution of mass makes things spin faster.

So actually the drilling of oil and burning it coupled with the ice melting to take the place of the oil at or near the earth's surface should cancel each other out! But we are still spinning faster ????? It was all a good theory for a while. LOL

 

[MossRoad]

Well, it depends on many factors we are probably not aware of so we likely cannot debate this intelligently but when a figure skater pulls her arms "in" the mass is closer to the center and she spins faster. So I see this as us taking mass out of the earth's surface (compared to the vast depth of the planet) and thus, in effect, doing the same thing as concentrating more mass near the center. That should make it spin faster just like the figure skate pulling her arms in and going faster.

No. The spinning skater moves the mass of her arms towards the center, making her spin faster. If you pumped the blood out of her, she’d spin much slower.

 

[Doughknob]

No. The spinning skater moves the mass of her arms towards the center, making her spin faster. If you pumped the blood out of her, she’d spin much slower.

Well that depends on wether you pump her when she is standing still or spinning which is throwing all her blood outwards already.

 

[MossRoad]

Reminds me of when I was young and working at the airport. On slow days, we’d sit in an office chair in the middle of the hangar and hold two oil cans in outstretched arms and start spinning the chair with our feet, then pick your feet up and start bringing in the oil cans. Fairly often we’d fall out of the chair. Probably explains some things.

 

[IndyJay]

Well that depends on whether you pump out her blood when she is standing still or spinning which is throwing all her blood outwards already.

No. If you pumped the blood out of her, she’d spin much slower.

If you pump the blood out of her she will collapse on the floor dead. Is that what the environmentalists are trying to warn us about?

 

[MossRoad]

Authors can use a double entendre to amuse or humor readers, selecting words or phrases with meanings that they do not state overtly but instead let their readers work out on their own.

 

[IndyJay]

Authors can use a double entendre to amuse or humor readers, selecting words or phrases with meanings that they do not state overtly but instead let their readers work out on their own.

You can see how that is working out...

 

[MossRoad]

 

[cqaigy2]

Which explains a number of post on TBN