Or just more alarmism?
Several sites I see have reported that the earth is tilted 31.5 inches. I’m sure some people will think that this is degrees and start freaking out but frankly it is not much of a motion.
I thought the world wobbled at least this much!
The circumference of the earth is approximately 24,000 miles unless it’s changed since I was a child. Divide that into 31 inches and you get 31/(24000x5280x12) or about 0.0000000207th of the earth’s circumfrence.
Again, doesn’t the earth wobble & jiggle at least that much?
It’s not a perfect sphere, it doesn’t have uniform density, it’s partially made of different density liquids, some entrained and some free, and lots of different solids in random distributions.
To me, 31.5 inches seems extremely stable.
Several sites I see have reported that the earth is tilted 31.5 inches. I’m sure some people will think that this is degrees and start freaking out but frankly it is not much of a motion.
I thought the world wobbled at least this much!
The circumference of the earth is approximately 24,000 miles unless it’s changed since I was a child. Divide that into 31 inches and you get 31/(24000x5280x12) or about 0.0000000207th of the earth’s circumfrence.
Again, doesn’t the earth wobble & jiggle at least that much?
It’s not a perfect sphere, it doesn’t have uniform density, it’s partially made of different density liquids, some entrained and some free, and lots of different solids in random distributions.
To me, 31.5 inches seems extremely stable.
