NaturesMuse Sunnyside Up
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Global warming is messing with our clocks.
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://phys.org/news/2024...
01:04 PM - Mar 28, 2024
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RA
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By one second per year, which is about how much time I'm going to waste worrying about this. 😆
01:07 PM - Mar 28, 2024
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NaturesMuse Sunnyside Up
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“Slightly” here is a funny term: The rotational period of the Earth, on average, slows by only 2 milliseconds per day over a millennium. However, the continual slowing represents a rotational power loss of 3.7 terawatts, about half the capacity of all human power plants combined.
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01:11 PM - Mar 28, 2024
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