tvb wrote: > "Atomic clock scientists suggest shortening minute to 59 seconds" > > This is so bad it's funny. A newspaper headline that's inaccurate by > a factor of, just, 100 million. > > By the way, a number of news web sites have been carrying "earth is > speeding up" and "50 years" stories the past week or so. I've read a > number of them. Ouch. Does anyone know who started it?
I don't know where it started. The New York Post article you mentioned cited this article in The Telegraph, which seems decently written: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/04/earth-spinning-faster-now-time-past-half-century/ Of course the story is mutating as it spreads to more and more news outlets. USA Today just ran this comically wrong headline: Scientists say Earth is spinning faster than it has in decades; a 'leap second' may be added So close, and yet so far... _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
