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tavernier

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32. Does that mean I can only hit my snooze button one time?

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Aug 3, 2022, 07:27 PM

Aug 2022

Or I could make it up in the shower by only soaping up one side.
Sigh. I’m not really good at time management. I need a astrophysicist to advise me. Is Brian May available?

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Earth is spinning faster than usual and had its shortest day ever [View all] Nevilledog Aug 2022 OP

Hooray!!!! Y2K all over again! /nt bucolic_frolic Aug 2022 #1

I guess we all must be having fun, right? Tommy Carcetti Aug 2022 #2

Article doesn't go into a lot of detail about tides EYESORE 9001 Aug 2022 #3

That was my totally unscientific first thought. Nevilledog Aug 2022 #6

I wondered the same thing. nt crickets Aug 2022 #9

I don't think so. Disaffected Aug 2022 #16

Think about an ice skater. They increase their spin when they pull their center of gravity inward. fescuerescue Aug 2022 #26

Seems like today is multigraincracker Aug 2022 #4

When the core STOPS spinning... keithbvadu2 Aug 2022 #5

Started accelerating in 2016. Everything that orange piece of amphibian shit touches dies! maxrandb Aug 2022 #7

Mother Earth figures if she spins fast enough all the damn humans will fly out into outer space. Irish_Dem Aug 2022 #8

My first thought as well Bayard Aug 2022 #10

Let Mars have the humans. 6 million years with these pests I am done. Irish_Dem Aug 2022 #19

lol uponit7771 Aug 2022 #22

No one? FSogol Aug 2022 #11

So it's not just my imagination sarisataka Aug 2022 #12

Or Everyone On Earth Can Run In the Opposite Direction All at the Same Time Beetwasher. Aug 2022 #13

Only works if everyone keeps running. Disaffected Aug 2022 #17

What If Everyone Jumped at Once? Oneironaut Aug 2022 #20

It has been pretty windy lately. Kaleva Aug 2022 #14

I built an open-source astromony/weather clock project, and put in special animation just in case... Silent3 Aug 2022 #15

Aren't our time measuring devices more accurate now than 100 years ago? FakeNoose Aug 2022 #18

Dumb article, dumb tweet. Edim Aug 2022 #21

Well, the point is that the 'fluctuations' are trending in the opposite direction muriel_volestrangler Aug 2022 #28

The Earth will be surprised to hear that rictofen Aug 2022 #23

meh. I think the IT impact will be minimal fescuerescue Aug 2022 #24

I would hope no patch is needed; they ought to have the code for a 59 second minute already muriel_volestrangler Aug 2022 #29

Nice. That's even easier fescuerescue Aug 2022 #31

thanks Obama treestar Aug 2022 #25

Pretty soon, we'll all have to wear velcro suits like they do Down Under. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #27

I get irritated ForgedCrank Aug 2022 #30

Same fescuerescue Aug 2022 #33

To give them their due, they do link to the Meta (Facebook) blog which describes the problems muriel_volestrangler Aug 2022 #34

Does that mean I can only hit my snooze button one time? tavernier Aug 2022 #32

Obviously, we've put far too much caffeine in the rivers and oceans. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2022 #35

Clickbait. Tidal drag by the moon has been slowing the earth's spin... JHB Aug 2022 #36