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Originally Posted by tomsolomon
Another thing that concerns me is the fact that some believe there was a single land mass on one side of the planet.
Ok lets take a car wheel for instance.
If you do not balance a car wheel correctly when you travel along the wheel wobbles, and at speed in some cases, quite severly. Surely this cause the Earth to traverse around the Sun in a spiraling orbit.
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While there are factors which cause the Earth to "wobble" on its axis, the placement of continental masses is likely to be the least of them ...
It's common to think of continental masses as these incredibly huge unwieldy objects which must upset the planet - it doesn't matter how many times we are told that, at comparable scales, the Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, it remains unbelievable because we can see a mountain that rises five miles into the air, but we can't see that the centre of the Earth is 6000 miles away ... it doesn't matter that the continents are the least dense components of the solid Earth, because rocks are so heavy ...
If you shaved all the hair from one side of your body, would you have to compensate for that, or would you lose your balance and tip over?