A rumor is spreading throughout the world wide web via emails and web blogs that on the 17th of October, the present living generation of people will come to experience a rare phenomenon which is said to be occurring every 2,400 years on our planet earth.
Besides being widely spread through the Cyber World, text messages are also piling up in my inbox regarding this matter, and a couple of Yahoo! Instant Messages from my readers to post up my point of view about this. Well, from my little search that I have concluded, I strongly have to disagree about the truth of the said phenomenon. There’s simply no rational explanation for this.
To go deeper into detail. Imagine yourself and your friends driving a car, at lets say a speed of 70 km/h. Think of the car suddenly breaking, what would happen to us? One of the two possible reasons to make such phenomenon occur is this one that I’m describing in my given example. There must be someway to slow down the rotation of the earth to let the day stretch 36 hours long and the night 36 hours long for our fellas in the United States, but, don’t you think that it would have a very bad effect to the people? And do you even think that this is possible to happen? Not quite, don’t you think so?
The second possible solution for this would be the angle of rotation of the earth. “Earth revolves itself is at an angle of 23° 27′. Due to that angle, and the spherical shape of the Earth, the light rays from the Sun do not always strike it at the same angle. This means that since the Sun’s rays fall on that area at different angles, someone far away from the equator will observe the Sun rising at different points in the east and setting at different points in the west. The further away from the equator that person is the more different points he will identify for the dawning and closing of the day.” -Stranger 767
Which is which now? Or are both of the given “not so rational” explanations invalid and is this really just a rumor? Well, in a couple of days we’ll come to know about this being a fact or a rumor.
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I still think that its still a big hoax. Anyway, October 17 is near. It wouldn’t be a burden to just wait for it if it happens or not. :3
Ok, Now I am well past the age of believing in such phenomenon.
Every 10 years or so, a rumor spreads throughout the world that the end of the world is coming. Unless someone drops a bomb, and god bless us all if this happens because there will be nothing left to blog about, there is nothing coming except dawn on October 17th.
Sleep tight tonight. Fondly, DCRose
Today is the day, malalaman rin natin kung totoo ba o hindi
toto0 ba yan?? some of my classmates send me a text message about that “stuff”.. kinda odd, pro sna toto0.. hehe >.<
IT’s NOT TRUE … I WOKE TODAY VERY BRIGHT & SUNNY … walang magawa ang mga tao … kaya ayan kahit ano ano ang mga hoax na ginagawa
sayang. di sya naging true. huhu.
I can't believe this story was featured in today's paper! It's 2010 and no such event has happened yet; at least in my lifetime.
This obviously must be some hoax that didn't do so well a couple years back that their trying to revive it. Either that or the nutball was mistaken in stating that this so-called "phenomena" happens every 2 and a half millennia for just two years. HIGHLY unlikely.
I think that as per the surveys the scientists have said that 65% of the magnet from earth have been deplenished so the earth's crust somewhat have become lose.So when the earth will rotate than due to inertia of motion (nweton's first law) the crust will take sometime to rotate with the earth or to come along with the direction in which the earth is rotating,that's why this statemant can be true that"17 oct. will have 36 hours of day".this slow seed of rotating will allow us to see 36 hours of day.but I think that the earth will resore the finished magnet little bit in 36 hours and the naxt day the nature will ragain it's form.
sorry, in 6th line it
's not rotating it's rotation.
if your mind arise any problem after reading the suggestion than take the example of the bus that you are sitting in it and recalll the inertia of motion and than match the similarities between the fact and example.
Nothing can be possible. Let us wait for that day to better know the truth.