OT: Read In Magazine

[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.