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Bernardo de La Paz

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6. No it has not. You have not. Read the article. You cannot notice that amount of shift
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 10:54 AM
Apr 2021

The poles have shifted 4 meters in 40 years. That's 10 cm a year, or about 8 inches (in 'Murrican) in "a couple years".

Half the earth's circumference is 20,000 kilometers. 20 cm is one part in 10,000,000.

One part in 10 million of 90 degrees is 0.000009 degrees or 0.0324 seconds of arc.

The human eye can resolve about 1 arc minute. To observe this "obvious" shift you would have to have unaided optical resolution 1850 times that of the human eye and remember over the course of two years.

Even if we allow that it might be 17 times faster in the last two years, that would still require you to be at least 100 times superhuman to observe this.

You did not, you have not, you cannot.

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