To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:47:25 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] the earth tips over
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 02:10:11 -0500 (EST) "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl at keithlynch.net> writes:

> In 1976, by Allan W. Eckert.  Whenever the polar icecaps
> become
> large enough, they unbalance our planet, and it tips over, placing
> the former polar regions on the new equator.

...

> Too bad that the author apparently never heard of the equatorial
> bulge.  It outweighs any conceivable polar icecap by several orders
> of magnitude.
>

But... even if the ice caps did become heavier than the equatorial bulge
(which could happen if the bulge were very much lighter than it is) -
even then that would be no reason to believe the earth would tip over,
would it?

Ron Kean

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