On the elimination of leap seconds
You’re probably already familiar with the xkcd webcomic, but if you’re not following the author’s “What if?” blog, you really should be. It’s like MythBusters, but for hypotheticals way too grand to actually test. If you’re into science or maths, you’ll love it, but even if you’re not, you’ll still find it approachable, hilarious and fascinating.
Today’s post, for example, answers this question from a reader in Germany:
Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earth’s rotation is slowing down. Could we speed up Earth’s rotation, so that we do not need Leap Seconds?
Clicky clicky!
just a note – your text ‘clicky clicky’ is ironically not clickable… ;P
Correct. I figure the whopping big link called The Heading should suffice.
apparently not… u know we all have 5 second memories, and if it takes longer than that to read to the end of your post, we’ve already forgotten a heading even exists…
also – usually a blog heading is a permalink to THAT post, not another website…
You don’t read many blogs, if you believe that to be the case ;) Linkblogs are pretty common these days. Daring Fireball started it all.
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i tend to read them in my reader… and i never bother to click the heading because i assume im already there
Lucky you’re not an old dog then :) (I got confused by it at first too.)