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Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.
CBS News ^

Posted on 04/16/2024 6:26:08 AM PDT by MNDude

Earth's changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.

For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second — called a "negative leap second" — around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday.

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To: AnotherUnixGeek

It’s not just the leftists. It’s those who believe that their own perceptions dictate what reality is. So anything they believe in the rock inside their cranium is to be respected as true and inviolate.


81 posted on 04/16/2024 8:08:51 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: SaveFerris

It’s 25 or 6 to 4.................


82 posted on 04/16/2024 8:12:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: adorno

Always wondered what would happen if some large Jupiter sized hard object hit the sun and blasted off a chunk of the nuclear fusion sun whose trajectory headed straight toward the earth.


83 posted on 04/16/2024 8:14:52 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Stop five people on the street and ask them what time it is on their watches. You’ll get five different answers.

And if you see someone look at their watch, and then ask them the time, 9 times out of 10 they will look again.

84 posted on 04/16/2024 8:17:07 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: Red Badger

I prefer the Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall version but got used to hearing the radio version


85 posted on 04/16/2024 8:20:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MNDude
So, which is it?

Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.

or

Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping

86 posted on 04/16/2024 8:21:38 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: MNDude

Or the Earth is flat and there’s nothing to worry about. 😉


87 posted on 04/16/2024 8:23:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I have an atomic clock on the porch, in my home office, my bedroom, the living room, the bathroom, and 2 in the kitchen, two of the atomic clocks are conventional looking clocks with second hands.

I also wear a wrist watch and of course the computers in every room.


88 posted on 04/16/2024 8:40:26 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Fresh Wind

“”””And if you see someone look at their watch, and then ask them the time, 9 times out of 10 they will look again””””

Some, or many, would do it for the precision, but that is still quite an observation you made, that will be fun to point out to people.


89 posted on 04/16/2024 8:42:53 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Stop five people on the street and ask them what time it is on their watches. You’ll get five different answers. I don’t really think one second is that big of a deal.

There are applications were a second really does matter, but mostly not.

Leap seconds happen occasionally, and can go forward or backwards, though to date, all have gone forward.

Here's a chart of leap seconds to date that I put together some time back...

Announced leap seconds to date
YearJun
30
Dec
31
Total
1972+1+12
19730+13
19740+14
19750+15
19760+16
19770+17
19780+18
19790+19
1980009
1981+1010
1982+1011
1983+1012
19840012
1985+1013
19860013
19870+114
19880014
19890+115
19900+116
19910016
1992+1017
1993+1018
1994+1019
19950+120
19960020
1997+1021
19980+122
19990022
20000022
20010022
20020022
20030022
20040022
20050+123
20060023
20070023
20080+124
20090024
20100024
20110024
2012+1025
20130025
20140025
2015+1026
20160+127
YearJun
30
Dec
31
Total
Total111627
Current TAI-UTC = 37

90 posted on 04/16/2024 8:51:20 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: MNDude

Global warming.


91 posted on 04/16/2024 8:55:16 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: ansel12

Same here. I’ve had the atomic wristwatch for about five years. Wore out and broke the wrist band. I could not believe I was able to find the same exact watch band that goes on the watch on Amazon. Got an atomic wall clock in the dining and living room. I wouldn’t be without them.


92 posted on 04/16/2024 9:14:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gun show sales aren't the problem, public school zombie walkers are the problem.)
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To: Sacajaweau

One of the things I really miss about Arizona since I moved to Texas. Wish Texas would get off that daylight savings time BS.


93 posted on 04/16/2024 9:17:17 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gun show sales aren't the problem, public school zombie walkers are the problem.)
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To: Getready

Nuclear fusion only takes place deep, deep, in the core of the sun. The specific power of the sun is about the same as rotting bale of hay, about quarter of a watt per meter cubed.

A cubic meter of hay has surface area of 6 meters so the power per square meter is 0.25/6 = 0.042 watts per square meter.

The sun has a volume of 1.412 x 10^27 cubic meters and a surface area of 6.09×10^18 square meters, or roughly 2.32 x 10^8 cubic meters per square meter of surface area or 6 x 10^7 watts per square meter, or roughly a billion times more than the hay bale per square meter.


94 posted on 04/16/2024 9:39:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: MNDude

Follow the science. It’s slowing down and speeding up at the same time.

Kind of like global warming will cause the next ice age.


95 posted on 04/16/2024 10:02:29 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: MNDude

NBC + CBS = Earth’s rotation remains unchanged.


96 posted on 04/16/2024 10:09:37 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: MNDude

Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4231510/posts?page=1


97 posted on 04/16/2024 11:08:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ClearCase_guy; MNDude; null and void; dfwgator; SuperLuminal; MtnClimber; FlingWingFlyer; V_TWIN; ..

https://www.time.gov/


98 posted on 04/16/2024 11:30:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Nice twofer!



99 posted on 04/16/2024 12:30:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MNDude
U.S. Constitution

Article 1. The Congress shall construct a thermostat to control the temperature of planet earth.

Article 2. Every hour, the Congress shall adjust that thermostat.

Article 3. The Congress shall set the maximum level of the oceans.

Article 4. The Congress shall set the miles per Kilowatt.

Article 5. The Congress shall set the rotational speed of the planet earth.

Article 6. The Congress shall set the size of The Ozone Hole.


100 posted on 04/16/2024 12:40:03 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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