What nonsense did you believe in as a kid?Ever thought that you could get flushed down the loo? That girls wee out their bottoms? Or that bumming means two men rubbing their bums together? Tell us about your childhood misconceptions. Thanks to Joefish for the suggestion.
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rob, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:21)
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I rationalise like this.The Japan quake tilted the Earth's axis by about 17 cm, and speeded up the spin by an infinitesimal amount, but made no difference to it's orbit. The amount of energy released during the quake makes nuclear weapons look like an AA battery, therefore bloke down the pub was talking shit.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 15:45,
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The Earth is essentially a closed systemso, unless the nukes eject material that escapes our gravitational field to create a reaction mass, they will have no effect on the orbit.
The Japanese earthquake would (probably) have influenced our rotational axis due to the redistribution of the mass of the Earth i.e. changing the shape of the planet. A tiny bit.
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 16:00,
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