[LucyT]

More at Link, with Photo.

[Genoa]

Give or take a billion.

[KC_Lion]

[Gefn]

Wow. This is really interesting.

Bookmark.

[Steely Tom]

There’s no MSM source I take more seriously than MSNBC.

[ronnie raygun]

Common core no doubt used for this calculation

[humblegunner]

However, as science blogger Colin Schultz points out

That settles it, because all blogs are true.

[CrazyIvan]

And I’ll still wake up tired.

[BenLurkin]

AGW’s fault!

[LucyT]

Tonight will be the longest night in Earth's history

[dfwgator]

Women and minorities to be hardest hit.

[Lorianne]

Wow, 15/millionths on a second more time to get stuff done before Christmas! Thanks Earth!

[huldah1776]

I want to know what causes the days to be shortened during the tribulation. It saves lives but just want to know how.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The longer the night, the better I see.

[Rummyfan]

Should one stay up and enjoy it, or take the opportunity for extra sleep?

[Velveeta]

Par for the course, since this has been the longest 6 years in history. ;-)

[IDFbunny]

Climate change.

[headstamp 2]

STOP GLOBAL er, SLOWING!!!

[PUGACHEV]

I’m not sure that this is correct. If, at some point in the past when the Earth was warmer and ice at the poles melted, would not the melted ice water flowed into the oceans, increased their depth, and thereby increased the circumference of the Earth at its widest point, the equator? If the Earth became wider at it equator for any reason, would that not affect the Earth’s angular momentum and thus slow its rotation. Later, of course, when the ice once again accumulated at the poles, the planet’s rotation would speed up, like a figure skater drawing in her arms.

[editor-surveyor]

“Science blogger Colin Schultz” is spouting assumptions not supported by any hard evidence.

We’ve no fixed point from which to measure Earth’s rotation speed, and who is to say that meteor impacts haven’t increased our rotation speed?
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[Gideon7]

In the not-too-distant future (geologically speaking), the moon’s orbit will drift
far enough away for a total solar eclipse to never happen. Today the moon’s apparent diameter is just barely wide enough to fully cover the sun, and then only rarely and with a shadow only a few dozen miles wide for only a few minutes.