Posted on 01/05/2021 11:00:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
Data shows our former 24-hour daily rotation is decreasing incrementally, making the day marginally shorter. For example, Sunday lasted only 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59.9998927 seconds, according to TimeAndDate.com. And though the planet’s rotation rate may speed up or slow down slightly from day to day, due to natural terrestrial and celestial alterations, astronomical calendar trends indicate that recent years have become shorter overall.
Case in point, 2020 beat 2005’s shortest day 28 times, and 2021 is slated to be about 19 milliseconds short of a typical year, with an average daily deficit of 0.5 milliseconds.
The world’s clock watchers are used to tinkering with time. Since the development of the atomic clock in the ’60s, “leap seconds” have been added 27 times to make up for slowing rotation, according to EarthSky.org. However, the last time the adjustment was called for was in 2016. Since then, Earth has begun rotating faster than usual, and now scientists suggest a possible “negative leap second” in order to bring time into equilibrium with our position in space.
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Isn’t the three gorges dam messing up our rotation speed? another reason to hate China.
https://scaleofuniverse.com/chinas-three-gorges-dam-will-slow-rotation-earth/
Fooled me again, I thought sure this was the Babylon Bee.
Everybody always talks about how fast the years are going by, now we have proof.
gnip
Just wait until so-called “scientists” realize they can get research funds to study this. Get ready for a brand new “hockey stick”, followed by pleas to reduce our “rotational footprint.”
That piece of crap won’t last another 5 years.
Cats and dogs living together, massive fraud, people who can’t decide which bathroom to use, and now a minute isn’t really a minute.
What’s next, Buffalo winning a championship?
Correct
They loose 19 milliseconds, but want to set clocks to loose a second ???
Hmmsss. The logic and math does not equal anything except ducking up more research funding.
I imagine they mean that one defined minute (possibly the last one of 2021) should be shortened by one second to make up for accumulated disparities, they don’t mean every minute should have 59 seconds, this is just a very minor version of the calendar switch from Julian to Gregorian that happened in the 18th century (earlier in Europe).
Apparently we’re spinning a tiny bit faster, impressive considering all the human junk that the earth has to move around.
In that missing second, perhaps we can find the missing votes too.
Global Warming to blame!!!
Regards,
That we have people stupid enough, and with enough spare time, OMG HE’S PAID FOR THIS!! to think this is an issue is damned near reason enough for a complete reset on this whole thing. How bloody single minded and ignorant of EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE does one have to be to even posit such mindless drivel?
EFFFFFF ME, you are NOT THAT STUPID!!
LOOSE: not tight, needing a reduction in slack.
Lose: Come in second place, not win.
DANG!
I will assume that your remark was made purely in jest, and so won't bother pointing out that...
1. All of that "human junk" is made of natural materials that were already there, and were merely changed in form by Man (i.e., no net increase in mass).
2. Any true increase in mass on the Earth's surface (e.g., from extraterrestrial sources like meteors) would actually slow the Earth's rotation and thus lengthen the day.
3. The primary reason for the long-term slowing of the Earth's rotation (which will eventually - billions of years in the future - result in tidal lock) is the effect of tidal friction attributable to the Moon's gravity.
Regards,
But in 2020 minutes were 8984624798627836872634 seconds long. Days were 8978745308345748957 hours long.
Am I to take it your miffed by a typo...
Please don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel..
And your mini spelling tirade... Who voted you in as FR spelling error executioner.
My polite reply shall be. Meh.
Grammar Libertarian, is the name I prefer. I don’t really worry too much about minor slip-ups, but I do object very strongly to grammar (and spelling) assault.
Yes, that “minor misspelling” is a serious trigger for me. Along the same lines as, *Irredundant*. YEARGH!!
LOL, have a good night.
More meds Don.. it may help..
Lol
Sleep well have a great day tomorrow.
Regards
Dammit. That’s gonna cut into my drinking time
That sentence should end with a question mark rather than with a full stop.
And, to answer your question: Don W and I are self-appointed "grammar Nazis and spelling-error executioners."
It's a thankless job, but someone has to do it!
Regards,
[Data shows our former 24-hour daily rotation is decreasing incrementally, making the day marginally shorter. For example, Sunday lasted only 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59.9998927 seconds]
No wonder I was tired all day Monday!
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