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Interesting phenomenon. Earth's rotation has been slowing down measurably for at least 100 years. UTC is an atomic timescale adjusted by adding or removing whole seconds to keep it in sync with the (fictitious mean) sun. Interesting times.
1 posted on 08/02/2022 3:50:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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No wonder why I’m always running out of time. The days are getting shorter.


2 posted on 08/02/2022 3:53:19 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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3 Gorges Dam. Situation should be remedied soon.


3 posted on 08/02/2022 3:57:33 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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Yes, now being 73, I can recollect that about 50 yeasrs ago at the age of 23 I statrted to feel light headed.


5 posted on 08/02/2022 4:07:26 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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So the increased spin is causing an increase in friction between the atmosphere and the land increasing the air temperature. No wonder it’s hot out there. We are all going to die.


6 posted on 08/02/2022 4:09:17 AM PDT by Purdue77
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At least with the earths spin slowing, there will be less accidents like this...


9 posted on 08/02/2022 4:22:42 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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The world would be a better place if we all just learned from physics...


10 posted on 08/02/2022 4:25:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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All our founding fathers spinning in their graves has affected the global rate of spin


12 posted on 08/02/2022 4:39:26 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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Earth is rotating faster than it has in the last half-century, resulting in our days being ever-so-slightly shorter than we’re used to.

OMG!!!! That's what I thought? This is worse than global warming and/or climate change or even monkeypox! As the spin increases people are going to spin off into outer space! It's time to eat more chocolate chocolate chip ice cream to help tether yo fat ass to the earth. I know. Joe told me so. No joke!!!!!

14 posted on 08/02/2022 5:25:07 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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I went to the doctor.
I said, “Doc, I’m dizzy!”
He said, “Not to worry. It’s just faster earth spin.”


15 posted on 08/02/2022 5:28:50 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (t)
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Ever feel like there’s just not enough time in the day? Turns out, you might be onto something.

Moron!
16 posted on 08/02/2022 5:30:17 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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Damn CO2!


20 posted on 08/02/2022 5:59:37 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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The Democrats suck so much it is equalizing the extra spin.


21 posted on 08/02/2022 5:59:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Well, if Luna does slow the rotation of the Earth and if the orbital distance is increasing 1.5 inches / 3.81cm per year, then Luna is 6+ feet over 50 years! Obviously it is Trump’s fault!

Sarc off!


22 posted on 08/02/2022 6:14:05 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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It's a crisis. Better give up freedom and prosperity stat!
23 posted on 08/02/2022 6:14:30 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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bkmk


25 posted on 08/02/2022 6:18:58 AM PDT by kelly4c
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It’s caused by Jerrold Nadler sliming back-and-forth in the Capitol building.


28 posted on 08/02/2022 6:27:15 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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Fake title by the author.

No, it is not, and the article elaborates.

Good science, bad reporting.


30 posted on 08/02/2022 6:39:46 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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I don’t even know where we are.
They tell me we’re circling a star.
I’ll take their word, I don’t know.
I’m dizzy so it may be so.


32 posted on 08/02/2022 7:23:58 AM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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Stop Man-Made Earth Rotation Change!


33 posted on 08/02/2022 7:24:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Superman will take care of it....


34 posted on 08/02/2022 7:25:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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