Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches Due to Over-Pumping of Groundwater

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a62995913/why-has-earth-tilted/

28 comments

  2. So much bullshit makes it into publication these days that I have a hard time believing this is actually true.

  4. What is an inch and how can we put them back into the ground?

  5. None of the articles I have found have been able to clearly specify whether they’re referring to a change in the axis’ position relative to the Earth or to the stars.

  6. For perspective, that is 0.000000007146 degrees or 0.000000001983% of a full rotation.

  8. Great, now Earth needs a chiropractor. We really can’t have nice things.

  9. So now we are agreeing that it is round, but it sits on a tilted table?

  11. Maybe we have it all wrong about earth and mars. What if a population used all of Mars’s water thereby preventing the natural cooling of the core and that planet baked from the inside out…what if our misplacement of earths water reserves are preventing the core from cooling in certain spots causing an imbalance that’ll cook us from the ground up rather than the sun doing us in?

  12. I would think melting icecaps alone would affect it more than ground water pumping.

    Also the 2011 earthquake that affected the Fukushima plant moved the axis about 1/4 of that alone in a matter of minutes.

  13. Maybe we can get it back to a 0-degree inclination. Earth’s tilt sets off my OCD.

  14. Great and I thought it was my kitchen that wasn’t level.

  15. God damnit Nestle! You should be ashamed. Take your oversized stanley and go sit on the other side of the planet till you can behave.

  16. Who the fuck measures this shit in inches?! Use degrees like normal people

  21. Ah time to promote more anxiety over things we can’t control

    > but techincally we changed th Earths tilt by 0.000001 degrees!

    So winter will come like a yetasecond sooner, that is actually meaningless to us

  22. New fear unlocked.

    Thank you, Reddit, for enriching my landscape of psychoses one step at a time.

  23. How do they differentiate between pumping of ground water and melting of icecaps in their measurements?

    Also the climate on earth is constantly and slowly changing due to the cycles it follows. Among them a change of tilt. Eg. 6000 years ago Sahara was green. Maybe i should buy land there as it will be green again in About 15000 years/s

  24. What’s up with OP doing his best to be an asshat in the comments? 😂

  26. I don’t say there isn’t a change in degree.
    But why is it pointed at water pumping?
    The amount is insignificant if taking in proportion earth’s mass,
    There is a tilt being done anyway (there used to be other north stars along history),
    There is oil pumping,
    Water flows with time back to internal drains,
    And this is only the crust of the earth.

    Why not blaming earthquakes and movement of plates?
    Why not testing changes in magma flows?
    The conclusion it is specifically groundwater seems irrational.
    I’d really much would like to read the papers.

  27. If only we had invented an unit measuring angles so we wouldn’t have to use fucking inches which

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