Days are getting longer. Scientists don't know why(theconversation.com)

15 pointsby loudtdarrowقبل 4 سنوات7 comments

Days are getting longer. Scientists don't know why

https://theconversation.com/the-length-of-earths-days-has-been-mysteriously-increasing-and-scientists-dont-know-why-188147

8 comments

ncmncmقبل 4 سنوات

Last I heard, days were getting unaccountably shorter, such that they were threatening to impose a reverse-leap second, or "lop second", with a select minute only 59 seconds long, rather than 61 for the usual case.

noviaقبل 4 سنوات

Covered in the article. They got shorter and now they are getting longer.

Provenقبل 4 سنوات

Such incompetence!

They should recruit some climate scientists - those guys know everything and can predict what will happen in the distant future.

zhxshenقبل 4 سنوات

Dzhanibekov effect / tennis racket theorem. The flippening is nigh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x5UiwEEvpQ

akomtuقبل 4 سنوات

Scientists should keep an eye on activity in the Pacific Ocean, and earthquakes around it.

rednerrusقبل 4 سنوات

Why?

karmakazeقبل 4 سنوات

Another Kaiju reference?

fdsffaef334قبل 4 سنوات