Earth is starting to spin faster — and scientists are considering doing something unprecedented

livesicence.com ^ | 1/24/2025 | Pandora Dewan

[SteveH]

Anthropogenic planetary spin change!

[CatOwner]

Can we use this as an excuse if we’re pulled over for speeding?

[Hyman Roth]

Where is Mr Hand? Are you people on dope?

[SkyDancer]

Installing speed brakes like putting solar panels? Big huge panels in the desert?

[Axenolith]

Oh crap, CERN musta dropped a micro black hole into the core and we’re beginning to speed up with contraction...

[xp38]

1.5 milliseconds. So short you couldn’t even blink your eyes that quick.

[Jamestown1630]

Hey these things build up....over millennia...

We have to stay absolutely accurate.

(Only half kidding.)

[linMcHlp]

Silly "science." They were just complaining a few months ago, that the earth was spinning more slowly - and longer exposure to sunlight, was "global warming."

[Bikkuri]

For years, they were telling us that it is getting slower.. which is it?

[SunkenCiv]

Probably a good twofer.

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[sit-rep]

sigh... I still got egg on my face from that... the thing that got me the worst, is the fact that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happened... not being as bad as expected would have been easier to handle. but the fact that nothing happened, lol... that was the kick....

[Tell It Right]

Someone should tell Bill Gates this is reason for him to NOT block out the sun.

[sit-rep]

I stopped reading at deducting a second because of the 10 year time frame to lose that one second...

[Robert DeLong]

Then Comes Science - Spinning Faster (10-year old song)

[VTenigma]

What a pantload.

[Allegra]

Dang it. Is this why my internet connection has been a little slow the past couple of days?

[MayflowerMadam]

I feel dizzy. I must sit down.

[Robert DeLong]

Correction, the name of the group is They Might Be Giants

[newfreep]

Is AOC (aka “Sandy”) spinning on the bar top again?

[telescope115]

Losing diameter?

I’m think we’re losing mass. All the satellites and rockets we’ve sent up in the last 60+ years, since the Soviets started with Sputnik.