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Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move

 

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers.

July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 milliseconds less than 24 hours, according to data from the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and the US Naval Observatory, compiled by timeanddate.com. More exceptionally short days are coming on July 22 and August 5, currently predicted to be 1.34 and 1.25 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours, respectively.

The length of a day is the time it takes for the planet to complete one full rotation on its axis —24 hours or 86,400 seconds on average. But in reality, each rotation is slightly irregular due to a variety of factors, such as the gravitational pull of the moon, seasonal changes in the atmosphere and the influence of Earth's liquid core. As a result, a full rotation usually takes slightly less or slightly more than 86,400 seconds — a discrepancy of just milliseconds that doesn't have any obvious effect on everyday life.

However these discrepancies can, in the long run, affect computers, satellites and telecommunications, which is why even the smallest time deviations are tracked using atomic clocks, which were introduced in 1955. Some experts believe this could lead to a scenario similar to the Y2K problem, which threatened to bring modern civilization to a halt.

Atomic clocks count the oscillations of atoms held in a vacuum chamber within the clock itself to calculate 24 hours to the utmost degree of precision. We call the resulting time UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, which is based on around 450 atomic clocks and is the global standard for timekeeping, as well as the time to which all our phones and computers are set.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/science/earth-spinning-faster-shorter-days

 

 

Isn't this like common knowledge? Being delayed or being faster for a millisecond. Worry if it lasted a full second because  then earth would explode

so we are all getting older faster?

What else can happen in 2025?

Britney ha impact!

 

19 minutes ago, tambora said:

so we are all getting older faster?

Im no Albert Einstien, but maybe we'll age slower. Just thinking outside the box

 

Of course it is I noticed days and years go so much quicker than it did 10 years ago 

So what does this mean for humanity 

good. shorter days means less waiting time for mariah's new album. 

 

let's go lambs.  spin class all together 

 

Edited July 22, 20251 yr by SupremeGoddess

Earth trying to impress the Sun by spinning faster:

 

 

 

We're all gonna ******* die 

Didn't GaGa warn us about this in A Star is Born 

coz my world keeps turnin & turnin & turnin
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Edited July 22, 20251 yr by GaGathaChristie
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So the earth is performing differently in the made up time construct we created 

 

 

 

The best band warned us so long ago

 

 

 

 

The fastest day on record was in June of 2022—surprisingly the same month/year Beyoncé released her comeback #1 hit single "BREAK MY SOUL" 

U better werk gurl

So what does this mean are we gonna die 

If this will make Summer go by quicker, then I'm here for it 

Chappell Roan better stop the world just to stop this feeling 

omg the Demi promo this era is crazy  

This what y'all get for panning Lorde and FLETCHER now we all dying

These are fast times and fast nights

 

Earth is spinning faster, people is aging faster. Time goes by so quickly but no signs of Madonna about releasing new music