Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:24:05 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: the earth tips over
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:29:49 -0500 (EST) "Keith F. Lynch"
> <kfl at keithlynch.net> writes:

>
> > Actually, it would.  The poles would still point the same direction
> > in space, and the axial tilt would remain unchanged, as would the
> > length of the year, etc, but the poles would rapidly move from their
> > present geographic location to somewhere on or near the current
> equator.
> >
>
> I see.  The heavy ice caps would tend to be 'spun out' towards the
> equator, prusumably tending to drag the crust along with them, as the
> crust floats on the mantle.  Sounds pretty cataclysmic.

Yup.  http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue9/ar9poleshift.html has a
description.  If you want to do searches, the guy who came up with the
idea is Chan Thomas (not to be confused with Chan, Thomas).

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
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"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."