Sunday, March 13, 2011

Earthquake Makes Day Shorter

I phoned my math degreed daughter and asked her to help me with a script issue on the movie.  I needed mathematicall verbage to explain the loss of 1/3 night and day.  This was nearly one month before the earthquake in Japan.  WOW!  End time events are happening faster than can be documented.  Japan's coastline has moved 8 feet due to the recent earthquakes.  As a matter of fact, the entire earth has been moved off it's axis by 4 inches.  But here's a little known bit of information that I needed to continue with my script.  You see, one of the sub-plot/backdrops that I wanted to use in the movie from the Book of Revelation is the shortening of days and nights by 1/3.  Well did you know that the earthquake caused our days to shorten by a small micro-second.  This gives me the data needed to build the concept.  Here's a small excerpt from the story along with a hyperlink.
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A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth's spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds, according to geophysicist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif."

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