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(CNN)   Japan quake so powerful it shifted the earth off its axis by 4 inches, sped up the earth's rotation by 1.6 microseconds, and shifted Japan's coastline by 8 feet. So - 4 inches CAN make the earth move and time stand still   (cnn.com) divider line 121
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King Something
2011-03-12 02:10:38 PM
4.bp.blogspot.com
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 02:17:07 PM
WIN!
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 02:28:31 PM
Someone has been watching midget porn.
 
ozone [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 02:29:16 PM
Microseconds is a measure of time, not angular velocity.
 
ambassador_ahab [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 02:39:26 PM
And it's important, since we are talking about Japan after all.
 
SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:20:28 PM
Headline of the year candidate.
 
Misconduc
2011-03-12 03:21:06 PM
Yo mommas so fat she shifted the earths rotation by 8 inches from getting off her couch.
 
swahnhennessy
2011-03-12 03:21:06 PM
Awesome.
 
bugmn99
2011-03-12 03:22:44 PM
In other words, physics is a thing that exists.
 
mephisto6 [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:22:47 PM
SilentStrider: Headline of the year candidate.

Too long

/why yes, that is a softball
 
texdent [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:23:24 PM
So the Earth moved for you too?
 
studebaker hoch
2011-03-12 03:26:08 PM
ozone

Microseconds is a measure of time, not angular velocity.

Scientific units haven't been right since that "parsecs" gaffe in the first Star Wars.
 
unchellmatt
2011-03-12 03:27:18 PM
SWEET! I have hope!

/so lonely...
 
6655321
2011-03-12 03:29:09 PM
And France surrendered. Again.
 
Sarcastica75 [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:31:42 PM
*slicks back hair, adjusts purple flower on lapel*
 
acronym
2011-03-12 03:32:22 PM
so we can finally forget about DST?
 
baronvonzipper [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:33:19 PM
Clark? Is that you?
 
xaldin
2011-03-12 03:33:35 PM
Ok I have to give a golf-clap for that headline.
 
Oznog
2011-03-12 03:35:53 PM
ozone: Microseconds is a measure of time, not angular velocity.

Thread done, in under 12 parsecs.
 
plastic_cow
2011-03-12 03:36:44 PM
Well done subby
 
Saberus Terras
2011-03-12 03:37:09 PM
xaldin: Ok I have to give a golf-clap for that headline.

Same here.

www.hou2600.org

Cute, Subby, keep telling yourself that...
 
that bosnian sniper [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:38:29 PM
It's twoo!
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:38:38 PM
Is that four inches of granite or four inches of Play-Doh?
 
Third Day Mark [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 03:39:45 PM
*golf clap for Subby finally getting to join the "Make the earth move & time stand still" club*
 
Jixa
2011-03-12 03:41:48 PM
Ok, is it just me or is this article almost exactly like the one they posted for Haiti and Chile? Just replace Japan with Chile and Japanese with Haitians. Where does CNN get its articles anyway, the Xerox machine?
 
redwards29a
2011-03-12 03:42:11 PM
Well, at least the Japanese have something to be happy about.
 
StoneColdAtheist
2011-03-12 03:44:21 PM
There's a joke about Japanese men in there somewhere, but I'm not going there.
 
I Like Shiny Things
2011-03-12 03:50:06 PM
subby would already know this if he'd just call his mom once in a while
 
Balchinian
2011-03-12 03:53:54 PM
Guess I will have to fold mine in half then.
 
Free Range Deranged
2011-03-12 03:56:24 PM
Oh great! Saw this in The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961) and it was not pretty, although there was ample end of the world booty call.
 
Hacker_X
2011-03-12 04:01:10 PM
Sarcastica75: *slicks back hair, adjusts purple flower on lapel*

Are you The Joker?
 
traylor
2011-03-12 04:03:26 PM
Subby, I'd vote this HL for HLOTY just to find out who you are.
 
downpaymentblues
2011-03-12 04:04:54 PM
StoneColdAtheist: There's a joke about Japanese men in there somewhere, but I'm not going there.

You would have found that joke if it hadn't been so small.
 
Mayor Bee
2011-03-12 04:05:32 PM
ozone: Microseconds is a measure of time, not angular velocity.

imgs.xkcd.com
 
Brainwash
2011-03-12 04:06:34 PM
i197.photobucket.com

Watch out subby, I think he's aiming for your balls.
 
ham006
2011-03-12 04:10:10 PM
AirForceVet: Is that four inches of granite or four inches of Play-Doh?

Does it REALLY matter? If it's playdoh, it probably is bigger than 4", if it's granite, then 'according to subby' it is sufficient.
 
bluorangefyre [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 04:17:01 PM
Subby, you magnificent bastard, I nominate this for Headline of the Year! Well done!
 
ukexpat
2011-03-12 04:30:48 PM
Bloody hell, imagine what I can do with my 8"!
 
zamboni [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 04:34:27 PM
Hey, it ain't the size of the boat, it's the motion on the ocean.

/too soon?
 
SharkTrager
2011-03-12 04:39:58 PM
ukexpat: Bloody hell, imagine what I can do with my 8"!

Make a different version of the same joke someone else already made in the thread?
 
It's actually whom
2011-03-12 04:42:43 PM
Mayor Bee: ozone: Microseconds is a measure of time, not angular velocity.

That comic annoys me because not only is it kind of cheesy, but the physics is incorrect. Momentum will be conserved.
 
TheRippah
2011-03-12 04:48:19 PM
Keep telling yourself that subby.
 
ThereAreFourLights
2011-03-12 04:51:43 PM
Hell, I could have told you that, and my boyfriend would have been proud to hear it.

/AWESOME headline
 
Julie Cochrane
2011-03-12 04:55:37 PM
Sure it can. But you have to have a whole lot of Hitachi attachments.
 
WeenerGord
2011-03-12 05:01:20 PM
So - 4 inches CAN make the earth move and time stand still


That's what SHE said!!!-no wait, no she didn't.
 
Somacandra [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 05:07:35 PM
upload.wikimedia.org

Maybe, Submitter. But I'm guessing the Japanese did not want to freeze that moment a little bit longer, nor make each sensation a little bit stronger.
 
otto the bull
2011-03-12 05:07:43 PM
Four inches here also...


FROM THE GROUND!
 
indarwinsshadow
2011-03-12 05:08:20 PM
www.gifs.net
 
Sarcastica75 [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 05:09:48 PM
Hacker_X: Sarcastica75: *slicks back hair, adjusts purple flower on lapel*

Are you The Joker?

Why do you ask? D'ya wanna see a magic trick?
 
Mister Peejay [TotalFark]
2011-03-12 05:10:50 PM
ozone:

Microseconds is a measure of time, not angular velocity.

"Sped up" can refer to relative position as well as relative velocity.
 
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