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Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks might have to skip a second to keep up.
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Posted on 04/16/2024 6:26:08 AM PDT by MNDude

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To: dfwgator

That’s what I have to do just to fix my current cheap watch

Love it - but keep on bumping the buttons - next thing I know, it’s all wacked-out in some other mode

Armitron - think I paid $5 for it - still going on the same battery for at least 5 years now

Got a 2nd one on deck- it’s still rolling too 5 years - it’s in the original packaging/case next to the computer

I love the watches - except that the buttons stack the pushes - I wish they’d time out on the push after a few seconds - then the watch wouldn’t go into crazy modes

I’d read the instructions - except they’re about the right size for microfilm

I’ve actually got a couple of very nice watches - prizes

BUT don’t want to wear them in case of scratches

Bought a Steve Harvey watch (LOL) when I got a couple of new suits - was gonna bling-bling - well, the watch needs a battery now - and the suits pretty much sit idle


61 posted on 04/16/2024 7:22:48 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

Yesterday, they said it was slowing down.


62 posted on 04/16/2024 7:25:49 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Yo-Yo

The slowing has absolutely nothing to do with relativistic time dilation. It is difference between an atomic clock at sea level, co-rotating with the earth’s surface and time determined by rotational rate of the earth.


63 posted on 04/16/2024 7:27:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Yo-Yo

What you posted is exactly right. Many many non-eclipse moons ago, I did a talk for the astronomy club I belong to about this very subject.


64 posted on 04/16/2024 7:28:30 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! đź”­)
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To: MNDude

It was not long ago that scientists were saying the earth was spinning slower than it was a century earlier.


65 posted on 04/16/2024 7:29:39 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: MNDude

I’m so confused!


66 posted on 04/16/2024 7:30:18 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It is a HUGE deal and people don’t know it. Many of our modern systems require millisecond (maybe microsecond) accuracy to keep GPS properly working, atomic clocks synched, utility frequency regulation synched and lots others.


67 posted on 04/16/2024 7:30:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: MNDude
I will send these two stories to people on my email list just in case some are still using the major networks to find their news. As Mark Twain said, “If you don’t read the papers you are uninformed. If you read the papers you are misinformed”.

NBC news reports: Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping. 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.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/melting-ice-slowing-earth-rotation-may-affect-time-rcna145009

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

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spinning-time-second-removed-world-clocks/

68 posted on 04/16/2024 7:31:44 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: MNDude

Tell Chuck Norris to do his roundhouse kicks in the other direction.


69 posted on 04/16/2024 7:32:18 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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The most recent stuff I came across concerning this matter had to do with subduction fault earthquakes.

In these, a tectonic plate is forced under another. This makes the earth smaller. A tiny bit smaller, with the mass moving towards the core. It is the figure skater spinning and pulling arms in versus out. Pulling in speeds them up.

This stuff about the ocean is likely stupid. Average ocean depth is 12,000 feet (call it 2 miles). Radius of the Earth is 3950 miles. If you added a foot to sea level that would be a change of 0.008% depth, and that ocean total is 0.004% of the radius. So this melting stuff is 0.008% of 0.004%.

My money is on tectonic plate subduction. The spin is increasing a bit.


70 posted on 04/16/2024 7:34:16 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: MNDude

Just waiting on the usual Congress critters to raise the alarm about being thrown off the planet due to the increased spin rate.


71 posted on 04/16/2024 7:34:23 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Pete Dovgan
Global Warming slows the earth!!

The icecaps have been melting since the last ice age. The displacement of that mass from poles towards the equator will increase the moment of inertia of the earth, and the earth has been slowing measurably for at least two thousand years. Ancient historical records of eclipses going back to the Babylonians clearly show this. Long before SUVs. Sir Edmund Halley thought that the orbit of the moon was speeding up, but today we know that the moon's orbit is slowing, slightly, and the earth's rotation is slowing even more.

72 posted on 04/16/2024 7:34:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The slowing has absolutely nothing to do with relativistic time dilation. It is difference between an atomic clock at sea level, co-rotating with the earth’s surface and time determined by rotational rate of the earth.

No, I'm not saying that the Earth spinning faster has anything to do with time dilatation. Telescope115 and I were talking about clocks in orbit compared to clocks on Earth.

73 posted on 04/16/2024 7:37:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo

Which has nothing to do with thread?


74 posted on 04/16/2024 7:41:23 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Which has nothing to do with thread?

It did get sidetracked, yes.

75 posted on 04/16/2024 7:42:14 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MNDude

I thought I was dizzier than usual!


76 posted on 04/16/2024 7:42:21 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Yo-Yo

Been there, done that. You might enjoy this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experiment#:~:text=The%20Hafele%E2%80%93Keating%20experiment%20was,atomic%20clocks%20aboard%20commercial%20airliners.


77 posted on 04/16/2024 7:45:07 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: MNDude

Certainly caused by “climate change”


78 posted on 04/16/2024 7:54:29 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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79 posted on 04/16/2024 7:56:20 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: MNDude

Distance traveled in a light-year is gonna increase obviously.


80 posted on 04/16/2024 8:03:00 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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