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The Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever
Unilad ^ | 07/29/2022 | Jess Hardiman

Posted on 07/29/2022 7:56:10 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrelouisdanjon; astronomy; catastrophism; chandlerwobble; chat; danjoneffect; earth; electricuniverse; johngribbin; johnrgribbin; leapsecond; paramahamsatewari; rotation; science; stephenhplagemann; stephenplagemann
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To: TigersEye

Just brainstorming but.. it occurs to me Rosie O’Donnell could do the job herself.


41 posted on 07/29/2022 8:44:45 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: aimhigh

-PJ

42 posted on 07/29/2022 8:48:13 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: beethovenfan

Yes. Climate change. Hotter air is less viscous than colder air, so there’s less resistance to the earth’s rotation, yielding shorter days.

Where’s my grant money?

“You Sin Me Right Round” - Dead or Alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU


43 posted on 07/29/2022 8:49:52 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: seowulf; null and void

Not only that but the Chinese are all going to jump up and down at the same time, knocking the Earth out of orbit.

I read it in Weekly World News!

A bunch of patriotic Americans jumped up and down at the same time and saved the world!!

Boy. That was a close one!

🥵😰


44 posted on 07/29/2022 8:52:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The essiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes some have theorized that.


45 posted on 07/29/2022 8:54:15 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The essiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: aimhigh

Good. That much closer to Biden’s miserable term in office being over.


46 posted on 07/29/2022 8:57:17 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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https://freerepublic.com/tag/leapsecond/index


47 posted on 07/29/2022 8:59:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

If it spins fast enough, we’ll all fly off!


48 posted on 07/29/2022 9:09:08 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: All

I’m going to be that guy who asks, so what?


49 posted on 07/29/2022 9:18:39 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (If only one of those bears Putin wrestled had won)
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah, the guys from Oaklyn bar in Oaklyn NJ, the Jersey Jumpers!
I still have that article, LOL!


50 posted on 07/29/2022 9:18:53 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

I had that issue!!

THANKS GUYS, YOU SAVED THE WORLD!

LOL


51 posted on 07/29/2022 9:20:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The essiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: telescope115

And IIRC they jumped up and down to Van Halen s ‘Jump’.


52 posted on 07/29/2022 9:22:15 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The essiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: aimhigh

That could explain my weight loss. 😎


53 posted on 07/29/2022 9:22:55 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: seowulf

Actually, more sense.


54 posted on 07/29/2022 9:23:44 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: dfwgator

Only after he got something straight between them.


55 posted on 07/29/2022 9:29:24 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: moviefan8

Billy Preston - Will It Go ‘Round In Circles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghj5V5cUo1s


56 posted on 07/29/2022 9:36:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aimhigh

[[The Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever]]

I thought i felt dizzier than usual lol


57 posted on 07/29/2022 9:38:02 PM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: SaveFerris

I used to read it almost religiously. I would buy it for the space alien stories.
Someone in the astronomy club I belong to suggested that I make a slide show out of them and do a funny program at one of our club meetings.
With the help of a fellow member who photographed them all, and a
Kodak Carousel projector, it was a hit.
First I secured permission to use them from the Editor-in-Chief, and I later was asked to replay it when we hosted a national convention of the Astronomical League, I think it was in 1996. I got a shout-out from either the AL’s publication, The Reflector, or Sky and Telescope Magazine, I can’t remember which.
It was fun. That long ago, we didn’t have to worry about offending someone.
Not like today…


58 posted on 07/29/2022 9:40:22 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: aimhigh

In after 55 stupid comments ...


59 posted on 07/29/2022 9:42:17 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: dfwgator
Kamala sat on Willie’s Staff.

Staff can be interpreted in more than one way. 😀🤗🤭

60 posted on 07/29/2022 9:50:26 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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