[ntp:questions] Re: Bulletin C 28 -- NO positive leap second at the end of December 2004

Mxsmanic mxsmanic at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 14 03:59:16 UTC 2004


Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes:

> Maybe pumping all that oil from those equatorial countries and moving
> it to higher latitudes wasn't such a bright idea after all.  I guess
> we'll have to move something of roughly equal mass from our latitude
> back there to return to the old moment of inertia.  Oh wait a second.
> George Bush already did that last spring.  Are we seeing any slowing
> down of the rotation yet?

It takes quite a mental preoccupation to see an opportunity for
irrelevant political comment even in scholarly discussions of the
planet's rotation.

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