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Posted by La5eR on Dec-10-2008 05:18:

Add another second to your clocks

WASHINGTON (AP) � With a brutal economic slowdown, 2008 may feel as if it will never end. Now the world's timekeepers are making it even longer by adding a leap second to the last day of the year.

SAUCE:World Press


Posted by Reza on Dec-10-2008 05:21:

no


Posted by r5a on Dec-10-2008 05:35:

^^

you on the tdas tonight reza?


Posted by Vivid Boy on Dec-10-2008 05:35:

one mroe second of being 26..YES!


Posted by on Dec-10-2008 05:45:

Why only one second?


Posted by JD8180 on Dec-10-2008 05:58:

how is new years eve going to work? all hells going to break loose!


Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Dec-10-2008 06:50:

they do this pretty regularly, no?


Posted by Reza on Dec-10-2008 06:53:

quote:
Originally posted by r5a
^^

you on the tdas tonight reza?


played a few.. i go on to see if ur there


Posted by Reza on Dec-10-2008 06:56:

ur not on


Posted by Sunsnail on Dec-10-2008 06:57:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
they do this pretty regularly, no?



The world started adding leap seconds in 1972, sometimes twice a year. This is first leap second since Dec. 31, 2005. This is the fourth year to have a leap day and a leap second.


Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Dec-10-2008 07:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Sunsnail
The world started adding leap seconds in 1972, sometimes twice a year. This is first leap second since Dec. 31, 2005. This is the fourth year to have a leap day and a leap second.


well, look at you! TAs own timepiece...


Posted by Sunsnail on Dec-10-2008 07:07:

Yes, all due to me being able to read!


Posted by Renzo on Dec-10-2008 07:09:

Easily the gayest thing I've ever heard.


Posted by r5a on Dec-10-2008 07:52:

quote:
Originally posted by rT19
ur not on
i totally fell alseep bro. my fault.


Posted by Lira on Dec-10-2008 15:13:

Stupid lazy planet, always slacking off
quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
well, look at you! TAs own timepiece...

You didn't read the article, did you?


Posted by ChemEnhanced on Dec-10-2008 15:17:

Its Y2K all over again


Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-10-2008 15:29:

Damn you, cesium!


Posted by Frenchie on Dec-10-2008 15:32:

quote:
Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
Its Y2K all over again
Let's hope not. What a fuckin' mess people made that out to be.


Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-10-2008 15:34:

I actually found Y2K to be quite hilarious and believe we should continue the tradition by fretting over Y...2K9!

Just you all wait, when we're eating franks n' beans out of a cold can because all of our computer systems crashed similtaneously, I'll be waiting with a great, big Itoldyaso.


Posted by we_R_DNA on Dec-10-2008 15:35:

Add one second to your lives; you earned it due to conforming to a system of measurements that don't actually add up to being based on anything but the oscillations of atoms. So if time is the measurements of atomic oscillations; why the fuck do we need to add a second ? Oh yeah we have 53 + different calendar systems on earth now measuring time..

To even begin to blindly accepting the notion that 1 second should be added to any fucking calendar is laughable; I mean why even waste time saying that you should add time when that amount added does not add up to the amount of time wasted to say to someone to add time.

At any rate what Einstein taught us is that mass warps space time; so if we have to add 1 second does that mean a huge mass appeared near our solar system and warped space time so much we actually are 1 second a head in the future prior to lets say for the past oh 2000 years?

I mean if all these atomic clocks one day started giving out different oscillations all at the same time; could we of passed through a membrane?


Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-10-2008 15:39:

Einstein said a lot of things.


Posted by we_R_DNA on Dec-10-2008 16:12:

ok so now I read the article:

"Most cellular phone providers and computer operating systems check with the world's atomic clocks and update their time to add the leap second automatically,..."


So we are adding 1 second and in binary 1 could be on or off. . . like a dual relationship; On/Off; Electric/Magnetic; Night/Day;

all represented with 1's and 0's

By calibrating all technological devices capable of communicating with this "world's atomic clock;" to have an extra second reminds me of iRobot to some extent.

Self-aware Auto-Know-Tons


Posted by airwalker1 on Dec-10-2008 16:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Einstein said a lot of things.
so did notradamas"just glad he was only a fraction out with his prodicthion" the world ending that is.


Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-10-2008 16:20:

quote:
Originally posted by airwalker1
so did notradamas"just glad he was only a fraction out with his prodicthion" the world ending that is.


This has nothing to do with you - you don't even know how to tell time on a digital clock.


Posted by airwalker1 on Dec-10-2008 16:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
This has nothing to do with you - you don't even know how to tell time on a digital clock.
aw you hert me fealings say sorry and i will forgive you


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