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*2005 will be 1 second longer than any year since 1998. The additional second will be added in the final hours of December 31. They're not anticipating problems with most computers.
A total of 32 "leap seconds" have been added since the 1970s, which makes the year over half a minute longer.
scientists noticed that atomic clocks and the astronomical clock of the earth's rotation do not always match up. Markus Kuhn of Cambridge University said that the gravitational pull of the sun and moon can change the rotation by causing shifts in the earth's core, and major earthquakes can do the same thing.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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