The earths mass is being sucked into the sun by the suns gravity

[brian334]

When the opposition starts calling you names you know you won the argument.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Since the earth is suspended in space, it cannot be put on a scale and weighed. But scientists can estimate its total weight by estimating the weight of each of its parts, the crust, or solid rock, the mantle, also solid rock, and the core, a liquid, because of the great heat at the center.

These add up to an estimated 6.6 sextillion tons! To see what that number looks like, we'd have to write two 6s, followed by twenty Os, or 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!

The earth's weight increases by 100,000 pounds each year from dust and meteoric material falling from the sky.

This is the reason why the Earth is slowing down in its spin every day because it is gaining mass on it's journey.

While we know the Earth's rotation is slowing that is not the main reason why the extra "Leap Second" was added by our official time keepers this year. The reason for adding a leap second is that the planet does not rotate exactly once every 24 hours (86,400 seconds). The rotation actually takes 86,400.002 seconds so that each day this little difference builds up between the atomic clock and the earth's rotation.

The Earth's rotation is slowing but at a much slower rate than 1 leap second every so many years. The length of time it takes the Earth, at the present time, to rotate once is 86,400.002 seconds compared to 86,400 seconds back in 1820. The rotation has slowed roughly only by 2 milliseconds since 1820. That seems like an insignificant amount of time BUT over the course of the planet's entire lifetime, it has had very profound effects on the geophysics of the planet.

Tracing these tiny milliseconds back for 4.5 billion years adds up to a very significant amount of time for a solar day. I have determined that the day/night rotation was 63,000 seconds shorter than the present 86,400 seconds it is today. This would put the Earth's rotation at about 6.5 hours per day/night cycle, when it was created, 4.5 billion years ago. (This is a much faster rate of rotation than the Cassini-Huygens mission (2003 to 2004) determined Saturn's 10.5 hours rotation period to be.)

Jerry

[PYRODIN123321]

Maybe thats why people in the bible lived so long.....

[sm0ky2]

@ onthecuttingedge

we dispatch of more than 100,000 lbs each year by launching sattelites, pieces of the space station, exploration probes and whatnot.  so the earth is in fact losing mass.

this does not affect the decay of its orbit. we're still falling into the sun, because we do not have a propulsion system to maintain or increase the earth's orbital-velocity around the sun.

mankinds historical approach to such problems, is to "do nothing" because in all reality, we are in no danger in our own lifetimes, or those of our great great grandchildren......

ultimately, for mankind to ensure its future and place in this universe, we must permanently colonate other planets/moons/space stations.

[angryScientist]

Gravity is not the only force involved in our obit of the sun. There are magnetic forces and electric forces that play a part also. Those forces are 80 times stronger that gravity.

In fact, I am not entirely convinced that gravity is not the interplay of those two forces (electrical and magnetic) pushing and pulling on huge charged masses in space, like the Earth.

I've heard that plasma cosmology explains why galaxies spin as fast as they do with out flying apart. Morons that are not far from believing that the Earth is flat or the center of the Universe have come up with some pure fantasy they call "dark matter" and "dark energy". (Am I living in the dark ages!?!)

The Earth is electrically charged. Know it. You live in an electrical plasma. Accept it and move on. (I bet you never noticed the ten thousand volts you had on you until you touched the door nob and got zapped.) (I bet you still don't notice the hundreds of volts you are charged with this very moment.)

I look up at the sky and don't see sky. I see electricity and magnetism. I force myself to see it. Charge, movement and magnetism at right angles. (Nobody else does, so I will)