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No More Leap Second?
WerewulfX writes "CNN reports: "In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year." Update yeah, this is a repost. Whatever- it's a holiday. Nothing else to post :)
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Those poor souls who are born on that second aren't going to have a birthday. T_T
Slashdot dupes are, as always, right on time!
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the dupe second?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Who says that the extra second wasn't just deja vu? I know that I could have sworn I saw this post before.
And I only had 107,993 years left before my nefarios plan to come to work a half-hour late every day.
Will we see more el ninjo effects
I hope so! El Ninjo is the bad-assest Mexican Ninja ever!
this article is soooo last year
Spare me please. You all are the biggest bunch of need-something-to-whine-about babies I have seen in a good long time. So what if something was double posted? It takes half a second to scan the headline and realize that its a repeat. You take more time crawling all over each other to be the first to whine/complain/joke about the repeated story. For God sakes, ignore the post if your time is so precious! "HELLO? What is the problem? I doubt I'll donate to Slashdot again!" That is the saddest sentence I have ever had the misfortune of reading. Slashdot pours all kinds of blessings upon us geeks daily and you refuse to contribute BECAUSE A STORY WAS REPEATED? GOD FORBID! Burn them at the stake! They have wasted your precious half of a second! Seriously folks, cry me a river.
One second out of 31536000 is not considered significant.
And all that energy to matter conversion has increased the mass of the Earth. Which has increased its gravatational field, and the effects of everything elses field on it. Thus the earth is moving faster.
Or possibly space dust.
Update yeah, this is a repost. Whatever- it's a holiday. Nothing else to post
Sure there is. You could post about how the Stardust probe is about to enter a comet's tail, or perhaps India's plans for a hypersonic plane, or even the chnaging face of offshore programming...
Someone's overclocking the Matrix!
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
Well the earth is on time due to the massively successful launching into space of all the world's boy bands and all that casts of all the reality shows.
I mean NASA did actually get that done right?
Actually, not only is the article a dupe, but I just saw the old article linked on google news!
My new year's prediction: this article, having found a niche, will be continually resubmitted by clueless slashdot readers, reposted, and picked up by automated news services in a never-ending cycle of google-reader-slashdot that will ultimately threaten the very fabric of the internet itself!!
Hey. It's as plausible of any other prediction I've read today...
Let's try not to let fact interfere with our speculation here, OK?
Each year German scientists leave a beacon along Earth's orbit. This crusty marker stays there until it is picked up next year, and the elapsed time is measured. This year, the time was different than expected. It's called the Hansul-Gretel algorythm.
He Schutze, He Scores!