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WSJ: Why the U.S. Wants To End the Link Between Time and Sun - Astronomers Say Wait a Sec
Wall Street Journal ^
| July 29, 2005
| KEITH J. WINSTEIN
Posted on 07/29/2005 6:03:12 AM PDT by OESY
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A slowing earth? Secret seconds (no, not RFK)? Longer days? Global warming? Melting ice caps? Drowning cities? Freezing temperatures?
This is outrageous! It's Mother Nature gone wild. There was no consultation! Inadequate documentation. Bush is to blame.
We're gonna take this message to The Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Phobos, Deimos, Jupiter, Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, Sinope, Saturn, Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe, Uranus, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Neptune, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Pluto, Charon, Comet Halley, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, The Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, Sedna, 951 Gaspra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 433 Eros and Other Solar Systems. Yeeeeeaaaaaarrrrrrrhhhhhhhh!
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:03:16 AM PDT
by
OESY
To: OESY
I thought Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was destroyed........
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:07:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: Red Badger
Don't confuse him with facts.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:08:36 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Dems: "It can't be done" Reps. "Move, we'll find a way or make a way. It has to be done!")
To: Red Badger
It was, in spectacular fashion.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:09:59 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: cripplecreek
Just like Howard Dean's presidential dream...
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:14:03 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The C-5 Galaxy (http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=84)...sometimes, size DOES matter!)
To: Red Badger
Nature never destroys - only mankind destroys. Nature recycles, but it never destroys. That bear is recycling that moose, the mouse is recycling the cheese, and Jupiter is recycling Shoemaker-Levy 9.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:14:27 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: cripplecreek
...in spectacular fashion. It was gay?..........
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:14:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: Tennessee_Bob
Yes, But man SAW it happen, therefore ipso facto it's Bush's fault........
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:16:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: OESY
Does anyone really know what time it is?
To: OESY
according to a U.S. government proposal that businesses favor,So the Anointed One wants to defy the universal laws of physics to pander to the international banking community?
What a pathetic nincompoop!!!
Dubya is no different than Algore when it comes to Big Government junk science.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:18:26 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka)
To: Red Badger
It did penetrate Jupiter pretty deep.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:20:56 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: OESY
Can't belive it hasn't been posted yet. Terrible tension building...don't know if I can resist...okay, I'll say it:
IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!
Aaahh...I feel better.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:25:06 AM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
To: cripplecreek
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:25:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: cripplecreek
AND FROM THE REAR..........
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:26:19 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: Willie Green
Aren't you getting a little tired of the hackneyed "it's Bush's fault" sarcasm mantra in every damned thread?
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:26:21 AM PDT
by
jammer
To: OESY
I don't have a WSJ subscription, so maybe this is explained in the article...
What do they mean by "The plan would simplify the world's timekeeping by making each day last exactly 24 hours".
Does this mean we're going to take the current rotation of the earth around its axis, and divide it by 24 to get hours, which will change our definitions of minutes, seconds, etc?
If we do that, won't we have to keep re-evaluating our time as the Earth slows down?
Or, are they going to take the Earth's rotation around the sun as a year, and calculate back from there, which would make midnight creap backwards ever so slowly over the years away from the actual midnight based on the earth's rotation around its axis?
To: OESY
This is not an issue I will lose a second of sleep over.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:27:42 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: JustAnotherOkie
Does anyone really know what time it is?
I don't.
Does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why.
We've all got time enough to cry.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:27:44 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Chicago Transit Authority -- 1970 (Yeah, I'm an old fart))
To: Captain Rhino
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:28:07 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Red Badger
It was definitely flaming when it went in.
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posted on
07/29/2005 6:28:27 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
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