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JXMX asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 6 months ago

Does anyone think Oil in the ground helps the Earth rotate from a scientific point of view?

Update:

much like oil in engine in a car 

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  • 2 months ago

    by the way I wasn't serious about this just a jk

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 months ago

    NO the liquidity of the core does coupled with the speed of the revolutions of the planet itself around it does plus lunar mass gravitational effects and solar particle emissions which increase the heat of the core itself to some degree...

    N.Shadows 

  • 5 months ago

    Absolutely, the earth has a pole running through it from the north to the south. The earth rotates around the pole. The Oil deposits grease the pole. if we run out of oil the rotation will stop. earthquakes happen when one or more of the bearings get dry and shudder.

    This is why we are ceasing the taking of the oil and switching to electric power world wide.

    It is all part of global change.

    The earth is too hot in the middle to use Teflon bearings.

  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    The oil in the engine of a car simply prevents the metal parts from seizing up, it is not fundamental to setting those parts in motion.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    A raw egg stops rotating much quicker than a hard-boiled egg.

    ((liquid slows rotation))

  • 6 months ago

    I don't doubt that there may be some, but they will all be locked up in a secure institution.

  • 6 months ago

    total nonsense.

    oil in a car is needed to lubricate parts moving against each other. The earth has no such parts.

  • oubaas
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    Sure, the swivel the Earth turns around needs to be lubed every now and then ^_*

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    No, it does NOT. I havel two college degrees in geology and I know that is total scientific nonsense. 

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