Thursday, April 7, 2011

Earth Shifting

Okay, can I just say I'm really confused with Blogger?

The formatting is weird and the way things are displayed between profiles and actual blogs is odd, too. How do I turn on email notifications for comments? I missed almost all the comments on my blog and don't see where/how to change it so they are automatically emailed to me? I don't come here that often so it would be easier to just follow a link from the mail to respond to people. I just realized there are comments from last year with questions that I never saw...

Also, are there notifications for when someone adds you to "follow"? And how do you return the favor? What's the difference between follow and add to friends?

Maybe someone can enlighten me. I would appreciate it. :)

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As for life itself... I cannot believe it's April already. As my friend likes to say, the world seems to be spinning faster these days. New Scientist seems to agree! There also is this:

"The 8.9-magnitude quake near the east coast of Honshu, Japan was so powerful it has shifted the Earth's axis and shortened the amount of time in a day.

Diana Roman, geophysicist from Florida, says the earthquake caused the coast of Japan to extend about 8 feet eastward, and caused the ground to sink slightly more toward the center of the Earth. Roman said these changes mean the Earth's mass has been redistributed, causing it to spin faster—and making days on Earth slightly shorter.


"This is like when a figure skater has her arms out, and she's going slowly as she's spinning. If she pulls her arms in, she'll speed up. The Earth has started spinning slightly faster, and that means the length of a day on Earth is about two-millionths of a second shorter".

Scientists say this isn't unusual. An 8.8 earthquake in Chile last year moved Earth's axis by three inches, shortening the day by 1.26 millionths of a second."

/geekiness, over and out