January 30, 2002


  • I want an answer!


    Actually, the rotation of the Earth is slowing (days are getting longer by leap seconds, i.e., .7 seconds per year) and will continue to slow until, just as one face of the Moon now always faces the Earth, one face of the Earth will always face the Moon.  And, apparently unmoving vis-a-vis one another, the Earth and Moon will have a stare-off for forever more.

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