@neiltyson
Suggestions on what we should do with our leap second?
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@neiltyson i have great plans for my extra secondThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson And computers all over the world hate the moon for that fact. - 1 more reply
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@neiltyson Quickly, we must strap rockets to the earth and push it back into a proper orbit.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Great, my youngest son can celebrate his birthday a teensy bit longer. :-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson, PLEASE stop tweeting physically wrong things! The moon only adds a MILLISECOND per CENTURY. cc@kimberlykowal -
@davidwhogg@neiltyson@kimberlykowal Source? http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/136/5/1906/ … Suggests a change in each day of ~1.7 ms per century. -
@xayma@neiltyson@kimberlykowal My source was order-of-mag est: 24 hours over 5 billion years is 1 ms per 100 years. That's pretty close! -
@xayma@neiltyson@kimberlykowal holy cow 100 yr * (24 hr) / (5e9 yr) = 1.7 ms! -
@davidwhogg@neiltyson@kimberlykowal Moon is slightly more, other effects counteract it. But time is only added to UT1 in seconds. -
@davidwhogg@neiltyson@kimberlykowal So... it's a bit of both? Need leap seconds cause we couldn't define day to be x secs long due to moon -
@xayma@neiltyson@kimberlykowal yes both but moon is subleading
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@neiltyson@JulieDiCaro At least it doesn't happen today...pic.twitter.com/Bzb9JyQDmX
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@neiltyson I really hope a kid in some math class uses leap secs. in the calculation for the # of secs. in a year (http://alanwsmith.com/trick-question--how-many-seconds-in-a-year …)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson So perfectly calibrated, this Universe of ours! Thank you for yet another moment of wonder, Dr.Tyson. :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson and to think, without the moon we might not even be here!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson I will spend mine wisely - 1 more reply
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