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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

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To: Yo-Yo

It’s been proven that clocks actually run a little faster on satellites orbiting Earth. It has to do with gravity being stronger at the Earth’s surface.


41 posted on 04/16/2024 7:07:58 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MNDude
Isaac Newton told us that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

So if we can get everyone in the world to walk in one direction, it will affect the Earth’s spin in the opposite direction.

For how long must we walk? I can’t say, as I cannot find my slide rule. So I’m unable to make any calculations.

As a side note, I guess anyone under 55 has no idea what a slide rule is.


42 posted on 04/16/2024 7:08:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: MNDude
This article was published the same day as an NBC article stating that global warming is slowing the Earth's rotation. But CBS assures us that the Earth's rotation is speeding up.

What a joke. American science used to be a beacon of hope for the future, not just for America but for the entire world. The global warming cult and the pandemic have shown how completely our science community has been corrupted by political ideology. There's nothing leftists cannot turn into absolute garbage.
43 posted on 04/16/2024 7:09:14 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL


44 posted on 04/16/2024 7:09:49 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

OK take your pick... and always be correct..

VMelting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
NBC News ^
Posted on 4/16/2024, 9:20:59 AM by MNDude

Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time.

A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven primarily by human-caused climate change — has caused the Earth to spin less quickly than it would otherwise.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


45 posted on 04/16/2024 7:11:04 AM PDT by Big Bill in TN (Army Vet.here. I know how to fix stupid, but it will hurt!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; dfwgator; Red Badger

[Stop five people on the street and ask them what time it is on their watches. You’ll get five different answers.]

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Does anybody really care?


46 posted on 04/16/2024 7:11:26 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: dfwgator

Oh dang. You beat me to it.

Good work.


47 posted on 04/16/2024 7:12:42 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: Red Badger

That’s beacuse time is relative............

******

See my post #41.
Funny thing is, the older I get, time seems to go by faster….🤔


48 posted on 04/16/2024 7:13:18 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: SaveFerris

"Kromega III. It’s like asking a stranger for the time."

49 posted on 04/16/2024 7:13:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: telescope115
It’s been proven that clocks actually run a little faster on satellites orbiting Earth. It has to do with gravity being stronger at the Earth’s surface.

I thought it was the opposite. Clocks on the ISS run slower compared to Earth clocks because of their higher relative speed causing Einsteinian Time Dilatation.

https://planetary-science.org/astrophysics/time-dilation/

Clocks on the International Space Station (ISS), for example, run marginally more slowly than reference clocks back on Earth. This explains why astronauts on the ISS age more slowly, being 0.007 seconds behind for every six months. This is known as time dilation, and it has been frequently confirmed and validated by slight differences between atomic clocks in space and those on Earth, even though all were functioning flawlessly. The laws of nature are such that time itself will bend because of differences in either gravity or velocity, each of which affects time in distinctive ways. This phenomenon will have significant implications for interstellar or intergalactic travel.

50 posted on 04/16/2024 7:14:16 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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51 posted on 04/16/2024 7:14:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tucker39

The earth has been slowing down since the formation of the moon. When the moon formed the rotation of the earth was much faster, about 10 hours. The orbit of the moon was much smaller and faster. Over time there has been a gradual tidal transfer of earth’s rotational angular momentum to the moon’s orbital angular momentum. The moons orbital period is longer than it had been, but the radius is greater.

Circular orbits net energy and angular momentum increase with increasing radius. The moon’s orbit is not circular, but the same principal applies. The total kinetic energy stored in the earth’s rotation and moon’s orbit is decreasing, but angular momentum is conserved. The lost kinetic energy is dissipated by tidal friction.


52 posted on 04/16/2024 7:15:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: TomGuy

ABC is the lukewarm water.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHohVNaxJ-M&pp=ygUZc3BpbmFsIHRhcCBsdWtld2FybSB3YXRlcg%3D%3D


53 posted on 04/16/2024 7:15:24 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MNDude

Does that mean we’re aging faster.

BTW, the moon is moving farther away from earth as we speak. and the sun is expanding and will die off in about 4 1/2 billion years, but, we all will have been toast 2 billion years before that. We must do something about it, and find a new star and planetary system to move to.

But, we must act soon, before it’s too late.


54 posted on 04/16/2024 7:16:33 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: MNDude

Global
Warming slows the earth!!

Then like an hour later

The earth is spinning faster and we need to adjust the clocks!!

What a bunch of nonsense. Talk
About conflicting science!!


55 posted on 04/16/2024 7:17:21 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan (Repeatedl)
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To: adorno

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you’re older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death


56 posted on 04/16/2024 7:18:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care?

57 posted on 04/16/2024 7:19:08 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Yo-Yo

You’re probably right: I’m going by memory, and it ain’t what it used to be..


58 posted on 04/16/2024 7:20:31 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

a big nothing...compared to changing your clock twice a year..


59 posted on 04/16/2024 7:22:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: telescope115
It’s been proven that clocks actually run a little faster on satellites orbiting Earth. It has to do with gravity being stronger at the Earth’s surface.

And if we could only find a way to enhance this process, we could all live forever.

60 posted on 04/16/2024 7:22:30 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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