What's More Current Than The Weather? ... Time

DanaC · 01-19-2012, 06:18 AM

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/do-we-reall...p-second-.html

Interesting little debate giong on about the leap second.

Lamplighter · 01-19-2012, 07:49 AM

First Pluto, now the Leap Second... can't depend on anything any more.

tw · 01-19-2012, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

First Pluto, now the Leap Second... can't depend on anything any more.

Even neutrinos are appearing before their time. Don’t count on anything any more. By the time it can be counted, it is not longer there. Time to think differently. What was the past is already the future.

Welcome to quantum physics. The future of kids today (quantum physics) was already. So what is current?

Lamplighter · 01-19-2012, 09:42 PM

Oh wait... One leap second to be added in June,2012, and execution gets 3 year reprieve.

NY Times
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: January 19, 2012

Decision About One Second Is Postponed for Three Years

Quote:

Delegates at an international telecommunications meeting in Geneva
were to decide on Thursday whether to recommend the elimination of leap seconds,
which are occasionally added to the world’s atomic clocks to keep them
synchronized with Earth’s rotational cycles.<snip>

With no consensus among the delegates, officials at the International Telecommunication Union,
part of the United Nations, sent the issue back to a panel of experts for further study.

A revised proposal will be introduced no earlier than 2015.

ZenGum · 01-19-2012, 08:03 PM

You heard about the triceratops, didn't you?

HungLikeJesus · 01-19-2012, 08:06 PM

I think I was sick that day.

ZenGum · 01-19-2012, 08:21 PM

Sick? Dude, you were riding it. I've seen the pics!

ZenGum · 01-20-2012, 05:38 AM

Quote:

A revised proposal will be introduced no earlier than 2015.

This was harder than you might think.

"Chairman, I move that we defer the decision until 2015."

"Anyone willing to second that?"

*meeting winces, stares at their notes...

Lamplighter · 01-20-2012, 07:40 AM

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01-19-2012, 08:21 PM	#7
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Sick? Dude, you were riding it. I've seen the pics! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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