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originally posted by: UnBreakable
"The elders maintain the Sun doesn't rise were it used too ..."
The Earth's orbital motions (inclination of the earth's axis on its orbit with respect to the sun, gyroscopic precession of the earth's axis every 26,000 years ...
...while scientists maintain man made pollution is contributing to climate change the elders are convinced something much much bigger is going on! Astonishingly what the elders are saying is global warming is not the whole story...
originally posted by: Frank12345
originally posted by: UnBreakable
"The elders maintain the Sun doesn't rise were it used too ..."
They must be VERY old to have noticed Earth's axial precession ...
The Earth's orbital motions (inclination of the earth's axis on its orbit with respect to the sun, gyroscopic precession of the earth's axis every 26,000 years ...
wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_dating
Earth's days may have gotten a little bit shorter since the massive earthquake in Chile, but don't feel bad if you haven't noticed.
The difference would be only about one-millionth of a second.
Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
The 9.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged Japan also shortened Earth's day by just over one-millionth of a second (1.8 microseconds to be exact), according to NASA. It also shifted the Earth's axis by about 6.5 inches.
By changing the distribution of the planet's mass, the quake likely caused the Earth to spin a tiny bit faster, says research scientist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., thus shortening the time the planet takes to rotate each day.
The quake also shifted the position of the Earth's "figure" axis (which is different from the planet's north-south axis). This shift in Earth's figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it won't cause a shift of the Earth's axis in space -- only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets could do that.
originally posted by: UnBreakable
You're right. The Inuits don't know about how the position of the sun changes from day to day and year to year as much as you do looking out your kitchen window.
This shift in Earth's figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it won't cause a shift of the Earth's axis in space -- only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets could do that.
a reply to: eriktheawful Do you know of any that are in or near where the Inuit's live and have you investigated the subject ? I only ask because the MSM may be holding back any reports about what might lead us to believe that all is good and nothing to see .move along .
These millions of amateur astronomers, using our equipment such as telescopes, have to use RA and Dec coordinates to find things in the sky.