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[Ray76]

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

[Sacajaweau]

And the clock was invented when?

[dfwgator]

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

".....and Leon's getting larrrrrrrger."

[Gay State Conservative]

Trump’s fault.

[workerbee]

Lord knows the last 8 years have been interminable!

[To Hell With Poverty]

So does that mean the day was only 17 hrs long back then???

[Conan the Librarian]

I saw this earlier.

Of course the days are longer. Folks who paid attention in science class knew this in high school.

The Moon is slowly getting further and further away, slowing the spin.

[dadfly]

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[roadcat]

I hope they didn’t get a government grant to figure this out, something that anyone with common sense can reason. Not only is the Earth slowing its rotation, but the Moon is also slowly moving away from Earth. Has something to do with the laws of motion and such, no government grant necessary to figure out that time takes its toll on moving bodies when forces are acting on them.

[morphing libertarian]

Global lighting.

[Psalm 73]

"...each second is defined as exactly 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium-133 atom."

That would be some awesome wrist watch.

[WMarshal]

This article is junk science and fake news. If the earths rotation was truly slowing by that fast of a rate it would’ve already quit rotating billions of years ago. Once the earth is tidally locked with the moon and it only revolves roughly once a month then there will be no life on this planet.

Junk science, fake news, doomsday porn.

[roadcat]

Regarding eclipses, the remarkable thing about the relationship of the Moon, Earth and the Sun is how perfectly the Moon eclipses the view of the Sun for people on Earth. It wasn’t so in the geological past, when the Moon was closer to the Earth, nor will it be so in the distant future, when the Moon will be farther away from Earth. Our maker created the heavens so they perfectly line up for human civilization to ponder and enjoy. Enjoy it while it lasts!

[Neanderthal]

"has slowed by 1.8 milliseconds per day"

So this is 1.8 x 365 = 657 milliseconds per year. That is more than half of a second per year.

This has to be nonsense. It implies that the day was half an hour shorter 2700 years ago.

Junk science.

[Larry Lucido]

So my 24-hour parking pass at the Colosseum was a gyp!

[COBOL2Java]

Certainly in the last eight years, that’s for sure

[Don Corleone]

There is no truth to the rumor that the government unions are wanting a pay adjustment for the time differences./s

[jetson]

Because the Matrix program has a glitch.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...the Sun is orbiting the Earth just a little slower each year? Congress should pass a law speeding it back up. Why do I always have to be the smart guy who figures out these things?