Change in Earth's orbit means time change...
Leave it to the Captain to bring this up after such a terrible disaster, but the earthquake that caused the tsunami also changed Earth's orbit. Our year has been shortened, and atomic clocks and other official timekeepers around the world, were reset back to reflect the current rate of orbit.This is where I'm going to need help from someone who knows more about this, because shortening our year, no matter how small, must have some ripple effect on everything. Isn't this like saying instead of running a 100m race, we'll move the finish line one hair's width closer? Then it won't be 100m anymore, but will the difference matter? With GPS technology being used to measure, maybe it does? Instead of distance, time is now quicker, or seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc, are all shorter than they were before this time change. OK, so what?
Well, maybe we have to put an asterisk by some of our timed records? Either records before the time change, or after, get an asterisk. This won't affect every record, but what about the time it takes to finish a 500 mile auto race, or a marathon? The winner, and finishing order, won't change in a foot, auto or horse race, but the fastest overall times will now be challenged in a different rate of time.
To athletes who work hard to shave thousandths off their times, this might mean something. Maybe those of you using stopwatches, or measuring time over the last couple of weeks for whatever reason, have noticed something/anything that could be related to this? Sure, everything is relative to the rate of time now, just as everything was relative to the rate of time prior to the change, but those are two separate rates of time passing. Will any devices besides clocks be affected? What about tides? All our tidebooks were printed before the time change... My head is starting to hurt...
posted by cpt asshole @ 1:15 PM
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Is this the Guiness record holder for longest shot ever fired? A missile launched in January that will eventually cause a probe to hit a comet in July should qualify as the world's longest shot. Is a missile just a large projectile, such as a bullet? If it hits the target, it would be the longest shot ever made. If it misses, it's just another deep space probe. Wanna make any guesses as to whether or not they had to re-calculate launch information on this, because of the change in Earth's orbit?
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