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Lucas
03-02-2010, 04:23 PM
So I wasnt on Earth last week, when I got back I saw the news about the quake in Chile and the effect of our axis being shifted. Apparently this is not the first, nor likely the last time this will happen.

1.5 milliseconds isnt much, unless you veiw time like I do, but never the less....

any thoughts on our impending doom of being axis shifted into a reverse timeline?
David Jamieson
03-02-2010, 04:32 PM
So I wasnt on Earth last week, when I got back I saw the news about the quake in Chile and the effect of our axis being shifted. Apparently this is not the first, nor likely the last time this will happen.

1.5 milliseconds isnt much, unless you veiw time like I do, but never the less....

any thoughts on our impending doom of being axis shifted into a reverse timeline?

it's microseconds isn't it?

so, yeah, 1 millionth of a second is not exactly noticable.
Lucas
03-02-2010, 04:38 PM
oh i dont remember. sry i suck at micro time
David Jamieson
03-02-2010, 04:40 PM
oh i dont remember. sry i suck at micro time

Well, I for one am highly concerned about this. How am I going to make up for that lost microsecond?
Lucas
03-02-2010, 04:47 PM
Well, I for one am highly concerned about this. How am I going to make up for that lost microsecond?

i started a diary to document all my lost time: memoirs of the time bandit
KC Elbows
03-02-2010, 04:50 PM
any thoughts on our impending doom of being axis shifted into a reverse timeline?

Wait, you mean we're gonna relive the past? So, this time, porn is my doom, not my bad past decision?

Awesome!
Lucas
03-02-2010, 05:25 PM
i could think of worse dooms!
KC Elbows
03-02-2010, 05:32 PM
I caqn't wqit until I believe they're actually amateurs again!
Luk Hop
03-02-2010, 05:46 PM
CNN News - coverage of the tsunami warning.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=030_1267540696
Dragonzbane76
03-02-2010, 06:37 PM
suprised Uki didn't chime in, with some crackpot theory, and state that the U.S. was at fault for this. :rolleyes:
Drake
03-02-2010, 08:43 PM
suprised Uki didn't chime in, with some crackpot theory, and state that the U.S. was at fault for this. :rolleyes:

Maybe we were....


OOOOOooooooooooh! :p
sanjuro_ronin
03-03-2010, 07:00 AM
Whenever there is a strong seismic event, there is the possibility of an axis "shift".
It MAY have been 1.26 microseconds..
This is very common and happens all the time, The magnitude 9.1 Sumatran in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted the axis by about 2.3 milliarcseconds.
Again, this is normal and happens pretty much everytime there is a strong earthquake/seismic event.
So the POSSIBLE shift in the day was shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second)
kfson
03-03-2010, 07:55 AM
If we lost time, how do we know? Where did it go?
sanjuro_ronin
03-03-2010, 08:07 AM
If we lost time, how do we know? Where did it go?

Time is subjective.
David Jamieson
03-03-2010, 08:09 AM
Time is subjective.

and arbitrary!
kfson
03-03-2010, 08:12 AM
Time is subjective.


and arbitrary!

If the lost time is subjective and arbitrary, where did it go?
sanjuro_ronin
03-03-2010, 08:27 AM
If the lost time is subjective and arbitrary, where did it go?

Fiji, the lucky ******* !!
David Jamieson
03-03-2010, 08:46 AM
If you cannot feel a sharp pain in your ass, then it isn't there. :)
solo1
03-08-2010, 09:10 AM
anybody else notice the passion to help when the earthquake happened in Haiti and there is hardly a peep from the same glitterati when a worse quake takes place in Chile? why is this?
sanjuro_ronin
03-08-2010, 09:26 AM
anybody else notice the passion to help when the earthquake happened in Haiti and there is hardly a peep from the same glitterati when a worse quake takes place in Chile? why is this?

Notice that, did you?
MasterKiller
03-08-2010, 09:52 AM
Well, not to sound too harsh, but 233,000 died in Haiti, and 800 died in Chile, and Chile has a better infrastructure to dole out aid, even to the point where the President initially refused outside aid.
David Jamieson
03-08-2010, 10:05 AM
Well, not to sound too harsh, but 233,000 died in Haiti, and 800 died in Chile, and Chile has a better infrastructure to dole out aid, even to the point where the President initially refused outside aid.

QFT.

Basically, Haiti is a regrettably and ridiculously poor and run down little place and so, they have crappy infrastructure, crappy governance and basically a crappy little country.

They need the help. They can barely help themselves and have shown themselves to be a failed state for as long as they've been independent.

So, they are the perfect case for someone to pity. Sad little state of affairs there.

Chile on the other hand is a strong state with good governance and a solid infrastructure. More than capable of taking care of itself and if they were to ask, many nations were and are ready to aid.

Not all countries are equal in that respect.