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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Earth Spinning Faster Than Ever! Everyone grab hold of something like a tree! Don’t forget to use your pronouns......
Stacy Abrams has moved north of her previous location.
I just love threads like this...
All the best Freeper wit rises to the top :-)
I was wonderin why my gravitometer was dancing.
no everyone start running counterclockwise
It’s this Nations founders, spinning in their graves.🤔
Just a guess, but this might happen if more ice were to build up at the poles, drawing water from the equator, like an ice skater drawing in their arms above their head.
"Which would not be an advantage," said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. "Just think what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis——"
"Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!"
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: "Twenty-four hours, I think; or is it twelve? I——"
"Oh, don't bother me," said the Duchess; "I never could abide figures!"
— from “Alice in Wonderland”
Kamala knew how to climb the California political poles very well.
Little Orphan Annie. The Brandon administration’s answer to the Swedish Meatball Toddler.
Do you think it will cause another Flood?
A PhD in horology, omg… AOC n her friends can get a lot of real life credit for that.
730 out of 2,190,000 days worth of data in the universe is not scientific. What passes for science since the greats like Newton, Pasteur and co is just ridiculous. Gives science a bad name.
Isn’t Earth time based on a division into units based on the amount of time it takes for a full rotation? If so time is getting shorter. If the earth is spinning faster it needs to be measured in some unit other than Earth Seconds.
Science is so confusing? /s
” “Our patience is wearing thin,” Biden threatened. “Your refusal has cost all of us”, he added.”
Buy an electric car to slow down the earth!! Get a shot!!
So days are now 23 hours, 59.000000000000000000000000001 seconds? How will I get anything done?
Isn’t Earth time based on a division into units based on the amount of time it takes for a full rotation? If so time is getting shorter.
It was, prior to 1970.
Used to be that the second was defined such that there were always 86,400 seconds in a day and the length of a second varied from one day to the next.
Since 1970 the length of a second is fixed, and the number of seconds in a day varies from 86,398 to 86,402. On each January or July 1st we add or subtract one of two leap seconds to keep the clock lined up with the Earth.
This is the difference between Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time.
Thanks I just read up on it and quite honestly didn’t know time had been “redefined” in my lifetime. I was being sarcastic to an extent. Unless you are doing scientific calculations the simple divisions are much more practical.
The older I get, the more often I discover practicality of the past may be more effective than science of the present for real life situations.
Global warming is the culprit.
Gotta be all those windmills the greenies put up. They’re acting like propellers and pusher props to speed up the spin.
Oh wait, they mis-spelled "Hor"...
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