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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: aimhigh

Who cares, we only have 8.(something) years left anyway. Let’s just get it over with!


81 posted on 07/30/2022 4:39:08 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: Mark17

It was sarcasm.


82 posted on 07/30/2022 4:47:02 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Born in 1950

It’s wind turbines generating electricity that blow the earth off its axis.


83 posted on 07/30/2022 4:52:21 AM PDT by abbastanza ( )
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To: lee martell

So was mine.


84 posted on 07/30/2022 5:01:20 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: aimhigh
The molten core is cooling and thus becoming less fluid. We are all doomed...in another couple million years.

I think I'll go back to bed.

85 posted on 07/30/2022 5:05:26 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: abbastanza

Maybe so, but I think some of the wind is
coming from the political groups.


86 posted on 07/30/2022 5:09:00 AM PDT by deport
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
We are all doomed...in another couple million years.

Do you think we need to worry? 😀🤭😂😊😆🤣

87 posted on 07/30/2022 5:12:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: aimhigh

I had so much more to accomplish…alas….What I could have done with that 1.59 millisecond.


88 posted on 07/30/2022 5:18:00 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: aimhigh
Y'know, I thought I missed 1.59 milliseconds of the day not long ago.
89 posted on 07/30/2022 5:45:37 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Mark17

90 posted on 07/30/2022 8:23:18 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Alfred E? 😆🤪🤗


91 posted on 07/30/2022 8:29:34 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: aimhigh
"The Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever"

Young earth is believed to have revolved every four hours, so the headline is complete horsepuckey.

92 posted on 07/30/2022 11:03:34 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: aimhigh

The “quickening”?


93 posted on 07/30/2022 12:54:18 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Donate often, it is our FReeping ammo. Help keep the supply train rollin', be a monthly donor. )
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To: aimhigh
Fertilizer with too much nitrogen in the substance, free markets, hot showers, policies along with sound reasoning combating scarcity, and vehicles/houses, buildings, etc... powered by "fossil" fuels are at fault.

World Economic Forum will solve this issue by next Tuesday.
94 posted on 07/30/2022 1:00:00 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...


From season 4, episode 2, "In Ramada Da Vida." Featuring the song "World Turning" by Fleetwood Mac, as covered by Leo Kottke.
World Turning - The Drew Carey Show (Remastered in 1080p) | Josh's Spare Account
World Turning - The Drew Carey Show (Remastered in 1080p) | Josh's Spare Account

95 posted on 07/30/2022 5:26:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: TexasGator
Somebody tried to lift an aircraft carrier up 7 feet in the air using super magnets again. Probably the Stupid French since they are known to have both of those.

World's most powerful MAGNET is ready to be shipped to France for a nuclear fusion project that will replicate reactions in the SUN to create 'the ultimate clean energy source

96 posted on 07/30/2022 11:18:27 PM PDT by Hell to pay
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