OT: Read In Magazine

[bearclaw]

Nodachi said:
If you want to see just how active southern California is check out this link.

Uh, now that's kind of scary.

I actually live in a Northern BC (Canada) town in which the same fault line as the San Andres runs right through down town. It's well known to locals here about it too. IIRC, the estimate is that when the BIG ONE hits California, it will cause our end to become much more active. In the 30 years I've lived here, I've felt 3 minor tremors. Enough to wake me up at night but nothing major than to shake the pictures on the walls.

[TerranC]

Forget Tokyo, disregard California, don't worry about the Pacific Northwest, because this will be one heck of a catastrophe should it ever happen:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/sc...29/tidal.wave/

[Hunpecked]

Atrocities writes:

>>I read today in a magazine in the Dr. Office that the Earth has moved about 760,000 miles closer to the sun over the Last four years

Perhaps this is a misinterpretation of the article. The earth's orbit is an ellipse; the earth-sun distance varies from 91.4 million miles to 94.5 million miles over the course of a year. Every year.

http://www.weathernotebook.org/trans...000/12/19.html

>>the moon is moving away from the Earth

Yes. The moon is slowing the earth's rotation with its effect on the tides. The tides are accelerating the moon into a higher orbit. In some distant future the same side of the earth will always face the moon.

>>the polar ice caps are melting in the Artic

The earth's climate[s] is always changing. As recently as 900-1100 AD Greenland really was green, before the "little ice age" hit Europe.

And the vast majority of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct.

Have a nice day.

[Kamog]

It would good if the earth's rotation slows down and the days get longer. I could use some more free time per day...

[dogscoff]

They need to slow down the Earth so that weeks get longer, and we can have a six-day weekend and just five days at work.

Could someone organise that for me please?

Ta.