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Leap Second to be inserted at the end of June 2015

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  • 06-01-2015 8:48pm
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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,457 ✭✭✭✭


    The International Earth Rotation Service has announced (Jan 5th) that a leap second will be inserted at the end of June when there will be 61 seconds in the minute beginning 23:59:00 UTC.

    This is known as a 'positive' leap second - there is provision to 'insert' a negative leap second but this has never happened, largely because atomic clocks run faster than the Earth's rotation but also because of a very gradual slowdown of the Earth's rotation, the media tend to blame the requirement for leap seconds on the latter.

    This will increase the gap between International Atomic Time (TAI) and UTC to 36 seconds.....

    http://datacenter.iers.org/web/guest/eop/-/somos/5Rgv/latest/16


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    FF7 7777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 27 ✭FF7 7777


    A slowdown of the Earths Rotation ya say,

    we can use that to get a precise age on the Earth.

    phys.org/news/2015-01-stars-reveal-ages.html


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,457 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    FF7 7777 wrote: »
    A slowdown of the Earths Rotation ya say,

    we can use that to get a precise age on the Earth.

    phys.org/news/2015-01-stars-reveal-ages.html

    That webpage has nothing to do with determining the age of planets by their rotation periods and it attempts to blast you with popup ads. Not alone that but it actively complains if you have an active ad blocker.

    Can see now why boards.ie stops newbies from posting clickable URLs.


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    Taylor365
    Registered Users Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭Taylor365


    coylemj wrote: »
    That webpage has nothing to do with determining the age of planets by their rotation periods and it attempts to blast you with popup ads. Not alone that but it actively complains if you have an active ad blocker.

    Can see now why boards.ie stops newbies from posting clickable URLs.
    New account= more spam.

    YAY! :D

    Seriously, is this the same person who gets banned after a month of spamming links upon links?

    Aka Streets_of Rage 2 Come_On, aka A Little Baby Elephant


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    INPUT INNPUT
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭INPUT INNPUT


    coylemj wrote: »
    That webpage has nothing to do with determining the age of planets by their rotation periods and it attempts to blast you with popup ads. Not alone that but it actively complains if you have an active ad blocker.

    Can see now why boards.ie stops newbies from posting clickable URLs.
    Did you even read that Article? I noticed you wrongly tell someone that they couldnt record/play to a USB on any TV in another Forum the other day despite it being available for years. And you spend alot of time in that Forum so it looks like you dont take in what you read.

    How do you know theirs a pop up when you're blocking them? Did you read what they have to say about asking you to turn off your blocker?

    Phys is one of the highest quality websites out there for the areas it covers.

    Boards.ie has been serving up very invasive porn pop ups for over a month now, far worse.

    Most of your last few posts in this Forum are fixing those unclickable links posted by newbies aswell lol.


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,457 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    INPUT INNPUT wrote: »
    Boards.ie has been serving up very invasive porn pop ups for over a month now, far worse.

    How do you know that when you only registered last month - Dec 2014?

    You also seem to have mastered the art of searching for people's mistakes (in my case out of >13,000 posts), that's pretty impressive for someone who's only here for a month or less and who has posted all of 37 times.


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    INPUT INNPUT
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭INPUT INNPUT


    coylemj wrote: »
    How do you know that when you only registered last month - Dec 2014?
    What has registering got to with porn ad redirects?

    Thread here anyway.

    boards.ie/thread/2057338557/1



    coylemj wrote: »
    You also seem to have mastered the art of searching for people's mistakes (in my case out of >13,000 posts), that's pretty impressive for someone who's only here for a month or less and who has posted all of 37 times.
    No, like i said. Its a recent post. Looks like you didnt read that properly either.

    No comment on the rest??


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    Mr Bloat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Mr Bloat


    Get a room, lads.


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    #9
    jfSDAS
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭jfSDAS


    Sigh, I really miss "The Weekly World News" tabloid which used to run articles along the likes of ...

    https://books.google.ie/books?id=JO0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=weekly+world+news+earth+rotation&source=bl&ots=JdKwBXO5XC&sig=0h2XM49AEOYWpD7hYbZY3SZZlN0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mF-yVNqEH9Ks7AbcxoCoBA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=weekly%20world%20news%20earth%20rotation&f=true

    I had clipped out some really crazy stories from its pages in the 1990s but can't find that material anymore. The comet crash on Jupiter in July 1994 spawned a great run of articles such as one about how "astronomers" believed Jovian residents were sending S.O.S messages to Earth for help. The messages abruptly stopped and one "astronomer" was quoted as saying he believed the radio transmitter on Jupiter had been knocked out by a piece of the comet!

    John


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