30 times faster
By HemaSrini
@HemaSrini (435)
India
12 responses
@sevenseas (754)
• United States
12 Oct 06
I found this to be an interesting question so I did some checking.
It seems from this article that the world IS actually spinning faster than it used to. Not 30 X's faster, but faster all the same.
From the science article:
The rotation of the Earth has sped up in recent years. And as a result, the world's timekeepers have decided not to insert an extra "leap second" at midnight this New Year's Eve, for the fifth year in a row.
Since 1972, the world's time scale, Co-ordinated Universal Time, has been based on hundreds of highly accurate atomic clocks around the globe, including several in Sydney.
In the first 26 years of this system, 22 leap seconds had to be added to keep atomic time synchronised with time measured by the Earth's rotation, because of the globe's slightly irregular spin.
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/25/1072308630021.html
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@srhelmer (7029)
• Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
27 Oct 06
I am so glad I didn't study physics. Stuff like this would give me a headache.
@breejmail (9)
• India
3 Oct 06
if earth stars rotating 30 times faster than objects on earth will experience more centrifugal force and it may happen that we will be thrown in space due to centrifugal force....
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@maddog108 (3435)
• Australia
3 Oct 06
gravity would increase so much we wouldnt be able to stand up.but think of this what would happen if the earth started rotating 30 times faster then stopped suddenly.we all would be flung off into outer space and splatterd all over the moon .then the moon would turn red
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@babithajustin06 (21)
• India
12 Oct 06
thats science peppered with imagination, i like the gory moon part!!
@srhelmer (7029)
• Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
27 Oct 06
I'm not sure what would happen. If it's something bad, then I certainly hope I'm not around to experience it.
@i_agree_but (1183)
• United Arab Emirates
11 Oct 06
Possibility is, you would be cured mentally, so that you wont be rising these kind of questions another time.
@Mahala4me (208)
• South Africa
3 Oct 06
AAARRRRGGGGGGG......We'll all die !!!!!!
The moon will come crashing into the earth, ending life as we know it. Gravity sux, doesn't it?
@achilles7 (1276)
• India
12 Oct 06
I do not know much of science and gravity but the days and night will be much shorter than at present.