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GPS Used To Monitor Continental Drift
metz2000 writes "BBC News is reporting that a team of scientists from Nottingham (UK) are using GPS to measure sea levels and continental drift. The team has around 50 stations across the UK, and use GPS technology to track miniscule changes in altitude and location. This allows the team to gain an understanding of how the UK landmass is likely to change over the coming centuries. They have discovered that the British Isles are tilting, with the north of the country gaining altitude and the south of the country 'sinking'."
well this should sort the north/south divide and tilt (apollogies for pun) the house price difference to the north.....
just my 2 (euro) cents worth
Alex
...you tell me this *after* I've just bought a house in Southampton. Bummer. I knew the must be *one* good reason to live in Scotland...
Nick...
No, unless the fat guy is running really slow and you have a strange kind of earthquakes in your part of the world....
They are measuring slow changes, not quick seismic vibrations.
Jeroen
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I think you can extrapolate this data into a correlation with population. Look at the warnings from the 1970s about halting population growth in California, especially west of the San Andreas Faultline. There were no changes, and then an earthquake strikes.
Now the most populated area of the UK is sinking and the rest rising. If you think about it, it is quite logical. The weight of london alone is billions upon billions of tonnes, the building and auto infrastructure, not to mention several million people.
We are having a much greater effect on the planet than anyone could know.
RST
Lifing at one and and sinking at the other? Where have I heard this before?
Oh yeah, that's right... the Titanic...
1/6 Acre house plot, on an island in the north-west of Scotland, in an area that is (hopefully) getting wireless broadband within the next year.
If you can sort out immigration, USians can apply too - avoid your Iron Curtain before it's too late.
And if they relocate people to the north, will it stop the process?
.. I thought it couldn't sink any further. :)
I always new there was something fishy in the south side of britain. Ah well.. atleast now they have showed that it will hit rock bottom soon
Whats the point of having excellent karma if not to spend it every once in a while?
..some scientists studying the "sinking" effect have noted CowboyNeal's recent move to Southampton.
My journal has hot
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!
:)
Oh--wait--the ground is rising...
umm--nevermind
They have discovered that the British Isles are tilting, with the north of the country gaining altitude and the south of the country 'sinking'
That explains the difference in house prices up North and down South. I wonder when they'll start advertising southern homes as "temporary accomodation"? :o)
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.