In other words, days are getting longer. Geologists believe that an Earth day was originally five to six hours long. If the moon had been less massive, thereby creating less drag on Earth, our planet wouldn't have slowed down as much. The day would be, perhaps, 15 hours long.
Bartolomeu Dias Born-1457 Bartolomeu DIas sponsers Almost everyone that explored in the old days had to have a sponser an the person that sponsered Bartolomeus expedition was King Henry II he sponsered this expedition because he wanted to find a new route to china to trade spices with them but instead DIas found or really discovered the southern tip of Africa an King Henry II named it Cape of Good Hope Bartolomeu Dias discoveries an characteristics Positive and Negative effects Died-1500 ...
Diaz was also one of the captains and sailors of the second Indian expedition, lead by Pedro Alvares Cabral. On the 14th of May of 1500, when the expedition reached the Cape of Good Hope, a terrible storm made four ships of the fleet sink, in one of which Dias travelled. All the sailors died, including Bartolomeu Diaz. During this expedition, the objective of which India was, the fleet had also suffered a deviation which had made it arrive at the coast of Brazil. It is not konwn if this was an accident or Cabral's intention was, in fact, visiting the American lands which had been asigned to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494).