Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis 253
Zothecula writes "Using a complex model to perform a theoretical calculation based on a US Geological Survey, Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has determined that by changing the distribution of the Earth's mass, the earthquake that devastated Japan last Friday should have sped up the Earth's rotation, resulting in a day that is about 1.8 microseconds (1.8 millionths of a second) shorter."
On the positive side... (Score:5, Funny)
... the work day got about 0.6 microseconds shorter, woo! Oh, wait....
Know your reader (Score:5, Funny)
Did I read that correctly? Did the summary explain to us what a microsecond is?
Re:It's a dupe! (Score:4, Funny)
"People of Earth, at 18:00 GMT March 10 we all jump at the same time and regain our microsecond!"
Hm, maybe I should have changed the date on that one.
Just when you think you're having a good day... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Know your reader (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good God, Slashdot needs to explain a microseco (Score:2, Funny)
That's not 'sleeping', that's 'dead'.
Re:On the positive side... (Score:5, Funny)
That's coming out of your paycheck.