In article , Joseph T. Adams says...
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>Quasin  wrote:
>> Someone in Bible study last night said if the earthquake had lasted 
>> one second longer, the earth would have been thrown out of orbit into 
>> space.  Utter nonsense, but I'm trying to track down where this 
>> statement came from.  I'm not finding it on google.
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>
>Kind of silly since in order for that to happen, we'd have to somehow
>escape the gravity of the sun.

YEs, you are right, it is pretty silly. Escaping the gravity of the sun it out
of the question. Even significant changes in the orbit are out of the question.

Think about it, people: all that could change due to an earthquate/tsunami is
the spin (and that changed only a little). In order to chage the _orbit_ we
would have had to eject a large amount of matter at high speed into space. How
is an earthquake or tsunami going to do _that_?

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