[UPHPU] building a dynamic calendar

[Daniel C.]

On 3/17/07, cole at colejoplin.com <cole at colejoplin.com> wrote:
> As for rotation, don't worry until the poles shift. Then you can kiss
> GPS, calendars, and lots of other things goodbye.
>
> "In a polar region there is a continual deposition of ice, which is
> not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's rotation
> acts on these asymmetrically deposited masses [of ice], and produces
> centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the
> earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this
> way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of
> the earth's crust over the rest of the earth's body, and this will
> displace the polar regions toward the equator."
>
> Albert Einstein

You left out "over the period of approximately five thousand years". ;-)