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To: elmatador who wrote (59332)	1/24/2005 4:59:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<I'm more worried about all the oil being dug out of equatorial regions then burned, resulting in a massive shift of mass from the equator to nearer the poles. That has been slowing the Earth's rotation for a century. > Okay, it's true that that's back to front because moving mass from the equator to nearer the poles would speed up Earth's rotation. But when discussing ridiculous things, we don't need to be bound by actual physics. Taikun was making up silly stuff, so I figured I might as well join in too. I note that nobody pointed out that moving oil towards the poles would speed Earth up, not slow it down. Mqurice PS: Migratory birds have a similar effect as they fly to and from the polar areas.