Monday 1 August 2022

Hold Tight As Planet Speeds Up

I don't know if you did the same as me last Tuesday and thought that day seemed to fly past but you would be correct because literally the day was shorter because the Earth span just a bit faster on July 29.
The Earth generally rotates at a speed of 460 meters per second, approximately 1,000 miles per hour but Scientists have noticed that since 2020, our Planet has been rotating faster than usual speed and has registered the shortest day on several occasions with July 29 recorded the shortest day ever, a full 1.59 milliseconds less than it's standard rotation.
Nobody has yet been able to pinpoint the reasons behind it but the melting of the poles, a shift in the planet’s inner molten core or increased seismic activity have all been put forward as theories but what they do all agree on is that the faster spin means that the Earth gets the same position a little earlier than the previous day, approximately 30 inches or 75cm which plays havoc with GPS Systems, atomic clocks and IT systems.
The Scientists are not overly concerned for human life, they calculate that it would need to increase massively to have any effect on us or our weather patterns but the faster the Earth spins, the shorter our days would become so a 1 mph speed increase, the day would only get about a minute and a half shorter, an increase of 100 mph would make a day about 22 hours long and increase the Coriolis effect which would make weather systems more unpredictable and increase winds and hurricane but if it revved up by 1,000 mph then all the planets water would gather in the equatorial region and flood every nation between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn but if the Planet span at 17,641 mph faster than we would all be flung off into space.
With our current increase of its only the satellites set to geosynchronous orbit flying around our planet at a speed that matches the Earth’s rotation with a problem as they have to be sped up to stay positioned over the same spot all the time but us humans have an ingenuous way of making time stand still and make minutes seem like hours, it's called watching Golf although by the end of it you could very well be wishing you would be flung off the planet.

1 comment:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

im shocked the scientists don't know why. they know so much