That earthquake in Chile, an 8.8 on the Richter scale, was a terrible thing. Anyone will say that. A tsunami, many left homeless, and over 700 dead. Terrible circumstances, no doubt about it. In addition to the hospitals being structurally unsound and school gyms being used as homeless shelters, our Earth's axis has now shifted about 3". What does that mean? Our days are now about 1 1/2 millionth of a second shorter.
Everyone is always complaining that there is never enough time, and now there truly isn't. In that time, any given person could have worked towards changing the television channel, clicked on a new link for some silly YouTube video, or even turned a page of Your Favorite Magazine. Ever clock in at work just barely making it? Well, sorry, the Earth's axis is now against you.
In other upsetting news, an iceberg hit an unexpected part of Antarctica and some scientists fear that the region where the ice broke off could disrupt the quality of water, including sinking ability. That "sinking" is what spills into ocean basins and helps currents, giving the water oxygen. So this unexpectedly new iceberg could deprive parts of the ocean of oxygen, potentially killing life forms. So, as Titanic tells us, icebergs are dangerous.
So far the enemy count: the Earth's axis, icebergs, statistics homework, and tricky curbs.
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