The Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever

Unilad ^ | 07/29/2022 | Jess Hardiman

[aimhigh]

Planet Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure the speed of its rotation. Earth’s time systems can prove fairly baffling for anyone who doesn’t have a PhD in Horology, as we learnt the hard way trying to figure out why the clocks were going forward as a child – only understanding that we were being dragged out of bed for school an hour earlier than the week before.

But the plot thickens further still, as Earth is actually spinning faster than it used to and recently recorded a time that was the fastest scientists had ever seen. On 29 June 2022, Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its usual 24-hour rotation, in turn setting the record for the shortest day – and the latest in a series of speed records for our planet since 2020.

[TigersEye]

Chemical fertilizers are causing it.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Stop the world, I want to get off.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Trump's fault.

[Fai Mao]

Nah, Trump’s fault. He built too many golf courses.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Ice-skaters pull their arms in to spin more quickly, so we can slow the earth's spin if we all put our arms out.

OK, everyone--on three; 1, 2, 3!

[seowulf]

If we all face east and start running really fast we can make the Earth slow down.

Hey, it makes as much sense as anthropogenic global warming.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

It's Bush's Trump's fault.

[BitWielder1]

Doesn't that usually mean more ice at the poles?

[dfwgator]

Bad news for Superman...

[Born in 1950]

What if everyone on Earth ate beans then stood up facing the same direction at the same time.

Ranchers could put directional shock collars on their cattle.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Conservation of angular momentum. People are part of the earth, and anyway they eventually have to stop running.

[T.B. Yoits]

Wouldn’t be surprised if the recent rockets landing on the moon are affecting its gravity which in turn affects the spin of the Earth.

[fhayek]

Willie Brown has a Phd in Whorology. Kamala Harris was his thesis...

[dfwgator]

Kamala sat on Willie’s Staff.

[BipolarBob]

[Secret Agent Man]

...since 2020.

Oh good grief.

[dfwgator]

Jeepers! What is it, Augie Ben Doggie? Did you feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced?

No, just a little headache.

[drSteve78]

So THAT is why i felt dizzy today. I could just feel it.

[beethovenfan]

Climate change.