re: #82 ggt

Well, I know I favorited it, but I can’t find it.

My list of mind-recking changes in the world that account for the cognitive dissonance we see in some individuals yearning to Restore the Republic to some Mythical Utopian Past.

This is what I can remember of the list of Things We Never Thought We’d see in Our Lifetime:

1-the Earth tilted on it’s axis (a wee bit) —Chilean Earthquake
2-We lost a nano-second or two from our day —Japanese Tsunami?
3-Twitter
4-Arab Spring
5-China exploring the Free Market concept
6-Spock in touch with his feelings (my personal wig-out)
7-a Black Man in the White House
8-9/11

What else? Anyone? Please contribute …

From wiki,

The first sign international researchers had that the earthquake caused such a dramatic change in the Earth’s rotation came from the United States Geographical Survey which monitors Global Positioning Satellite stations across the world. The Survey team had several GPS monitors located near the scene of the earthquake. The GPS station located nearest the epicenter moved almost 13 feet (4.0 m). This motivated government researchers to look into other ways the earthquake may have had large scale effects on the planet. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory did some calculations and determined that the Earth’s rotation was changed by the earthquake to the point where the days are now one point eight (1.8) microseconds shorter