Since the first leap second was added in 1972, scientists have added leap seconds every few years. They’re added irregularly because Earth’s rotation is erratic, with intermittent periods of speeding up and slowing down that interrupt the planet’s millions-of-years-long gradual slowdown.
“The rotation rate of Earth is a complicated business. It has to do with exchange of angular momentum between Earth and the atmosphere and the effects of the ocean and the effect of the moon,” Levine says. “You're not able to predict what's going to happen very far in the future.”
But in the past decade or so, Earth’s rotational slowdown has … well, slowed down. There hasn’t been a leap second added since 2016, and our planet is currently spinning faster than it has in half a century. Scientists aren’t sure why.
(Of course Soyjak saintits how will you know anything outside popscience)
https://astronomy.com/news/2022/02/earth-is-spinning-faster-now-than-it-was-50-years-ago
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“The rotation rate of Earth is a complicated business. It has to do with exchange of angular momentum between Earth and the atmosphere and the effects of the ocean and the effect of the moon,” Levine says. “You're not able to predict what's going to happen very far in the future.”
But in the past decade or so, Earth’s rotational slowdown has … well, slowed down. There hasn’t been a leap second added since 2016, and our planet is currently spinning faster than it has in half a century. Scientists aren’t sure why.
(Of course Soyjak saintits how will you know anything outside popscience)
https://astronomy.com/news/2022/02/earth-is-spinning-faster-now-than-it-was-50-years-ago
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Astronomy.com
Earth Is spinning faster now than it was 50 years ago
Compensating for the lost time may prove challenging for scientists.
As bought-and-paid for, self appointed slack hecklers (naming themselves fact checkers) attempt to debunk studies and medical professionals who are blowing the whistle on the dangers of the COVID mRNA shots, the reality is starting to awaken many who have been injured or lost loved ones to the deadly, experimental shots. Now, a new study shows that the Pfizer mRNA COVID shot becomes DNA in the body in just 6 hours!
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/new-study-shows-pfizer-mrna-shot-becomes-dna-in-just-6-hours-video/
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/new-study-shows-pfizer-mrna-shot-becomes-dna-in-just-6-hours-video/
The Washington Standard
New Study Shows Pfizer mRNA Shot Becomes DNA In Just 6 Hours (Video)
As bought-and-paid for, self appointed slack hecklers (naming themselves fact checkers) attempt to debunk studies and medical professionals who are blowing the
In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists.
In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists.
In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
BBC News
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
Sleeping in one eight-hour chunk is a very recent phenomenon, and lying awake at night could be good for you, according to scientists and historians.
How Rockefeller monopolized the medicine industry and “falsified” traditional medicine like chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy, holistic medicine, Chinese medicine and herbal medicine.
https://meridianhealthclinic.com/how-rockefeller-created-the-business-of-western-medicine/
https://meridianhealthclinic.com/how-rockefeller-created-the-business-of-western-medicine/