Ancient eclipse records show that days on Earth are getting just a little longer

latimes.com ^ | 12/07/2016 | Deborah Netburn

[editor-surveyor]

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Which means that the title of this thread is an obvious lie.

Such small differences could ever be found in “ancient” records.
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[Neanderthal]

So the day was a half hour shorter 2700 years ago. At that rate of change the day was 7 hours shorter 40,000 years ago when cavemen were hunting mammoths. Hard to believe that a day lasted only 17 hours back then.

[TalBlack]

So...ah...all this extra time under the sun has somehow failed to melt the ice caps or raise the temp? Hmmm. Must be some kind of heat regulating mechanism in thete somewhere. ..

[roadcat]

At that rate of change the day was 7 hours shorter 40,000 years ago when cavemen were hunting mammoths.

I don't know, I'm no scientist. But the rate of change varies and is inconsistent, due to changes within the Earth and celestial events. I would suppose shifting of the Earth's core and magnetic poles, crustal movements, etc. affect the rate of change, as do bombardments of external bodies into the Earth and Moon, as well as effects from solar storms. What I find hard to believe is that people were cavemen hunting mammoths not too long ago rather than building civilized societies. Well, some of us are building civilization.

[American in Israel]

Meaning the earth was rotating at 1 revolution per second a hundred thousand years ago and evolution is impossible.

[Organic Panic]

I’m in the path of the next on in august. I can’t wait. i’ll be out on my sail boat domwhere in Central oregon or Eastern Idaho. haven’t decided yet!!! YEEHAW! I’ve only seen half eclipses. never a full eclipse.

[hadit2here]

I really didn’t want to click on a LA Times article, as they’re about as socialist libtard as you can get. But I figured it was a science article and would give them the hit as a reward for printing something that *shouldn’t* have a bunch of biased, political opinion in it. Boy, was I WRONG.

[Other observations came from Islamic astronomers working in the Arab world between AD 800 and 1000, as well as from mentions of solar and lunar eclipses in medieval European chronicles, mostly written in Latin.

“The Arab timing of solar eclipses in particular is superb,” Stephenson said. (He could not say the same for the European data.) ]

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[“In 90% of the cases in the Chinese and Babylonian records, their dates reproduce exactly to the date of the calculated eclipse,” he said. “This gives us a lot of confidence in our data set.”]

Notice that the scientist is quoted as saying “Arab” while the LA Slimes writes in the previous paragraph “Islamic”.

If I remember right, it would have probably been Persian astronomers, rather than Islamic. Islam wouldn’t have had much to do with them, other than beheading them for their beliefs if it went the least bit against Mo-ham-head’s delusions.

And the later quote states “Babylonian”, not Islamic. Babylonians had been around since the 18th century BC. And they used the Sumerian calendar, which dates from around 21st century BC. Mo-ham-head wasn’t around to start beheading until the 8th century AD. Or about 29 centuries later.

But naturally, the Slimes HAS to slant even articles based on scientific information to let us know how wonderful and great Islam is and how much it has contributed to the overall scientific, cultural and philosophical fields since time immemorial.

I wonder if young Deborah Netburn is a product of our government indoctrination school system. Well, no, I actually don’t wonder.

[trebb]

If days are getting longer why are they going by faster?

I can relate - as I get older, the seasons seem to fly by.