Poul, you'd have more people paying attention to your "arguments" if you stopped making up statistics (the number of astronomers on either side of an issue) or pretending that "reasonable" persons are on your side of the argument, and the people opposed to your argument are the unreasonable ones.
On 01/28/2011 07:10 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message<[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:- It is the attempt to pretend otherwise that is causing the friction.If you want to boil it all the way down there, the friction started when Harrisson built his 4th clock, and ever since astronomy has lost relevance for timekeeping. Leap-seconds is the last fig-leaf that still connects astronomy with timekeeping and thus a minority of astronomers keep fighting a fight that most reasonable astronomers have accepted as lost.
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