I have heard that the recent Tsunami has resulted in the rotational speed of the world shifting slightly and has knocked the sat nav satellites out of kilter!! Dunno by how much, but it goes to show the size of the quake!!
Credible source, or bloke down the pub?
There was something on the news about the earth was knocked of it's axis by an inch...
Well I got up to the Lakes today ok using sat nav for part of the trip. It did say I'd got there when I was actually 2 doors away if that counts.
Lee D.
Have a dig on the web, a scientist from US Geological Survey seems to be the main source, nothing on the USGS website though. As for GPS the satellites are fine it's just that the world isn't where it's supposed to be.
Hope no one tries to nuke us !! :-))
My Sat nav (etrex) has worked fine all day to OS maps on Kinder. I wasn't the one who got lost in the mist and rain.
Gerry
Why not. If they try now they will probably mis...... ...and hit me instead......;-(
Kind regards, Erik-Jan.
Mine was about 1/4 mile NE out of position coming back from work tonight.
Any one else out of position??
Found this on
seems guy at work was not talking out of his arse!!
Makes you think - what next?
Following on from the worlds worst Tsunami's with a death toll figure furiously approaching 80,000, US based scientists from the Geological Survey (USGS) have said "the quake that set off the wall of water had moved tectonic plates beneath the Indian Ocean by up to 30 meters (100 feet), causing the Earth to wobble on its axis and permanently shortening the day by a fraction of a second. " which is a quote from Reuters. Science.orf.at in a Google Translation also says "The heavy earthquake before the coast of Sumatra has substantial geological effects. Thus the tectonic plates under the Indian ocean did not only shift experts according to around approximately 30 meters. Also the earth rotation could accelerate itself around three microseconds per day". This could adversely affect the Earth, satellites and GPS over a long period of time.
Might miss Anglesey then!! apparently we were a priority target( dunno how high in the scheme of things) in the cold war due to the two Nuclear power stations in close proximity and the RAF base gives you a nice cosy feeling!
Strange that though. I thought I recognized the back of head. Just hope we don't get anymore like these or else christmas will be coming too early next year.
There were always far more targets than missiles, with vastly different priorities.
Unless RAF Valley could take a fully loaded B-52, it'd be pretty low on the list. The same with nuclear reactors; they're not an immediate threat.
Well it will be about 1mS earlier anyway but any excuse for the shops to start flogging Christmas stuf in August I guess. B-)
Big metorite impact? There are 654 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, PHAs. Space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. An AU is the distance between the Earth and Sun and also note "known" quite a number are detected *after* they have come within closest approach...
As far as known PHAs are concerned it's been a quiet couple of months, only 2 in Nov and 2 in Dec, closest was 5LD on the 24th Dec (Earth Moon distance or 0.0128AU).
And with that knowledge, how many hours sleep did you get last night? Personally I had the full eight hours, but some may feel that the sky is about to fall in on them. To whom..... hahahahaha!!!
Steve
I remember seeing a program on that on discovery - one came down in Siberia in about 1908 I think - made a hell of a mess!!!
Yep, and that was only 30m across and didn't actually hit the ground...
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