For everyone who has wished for more time (and who hasn’t?), you’re about the get your wish.
This momentous year of 2008 will NOT end at the stroke of midnight. Instead, a “leap second” will be added on to the last minute of the year.
According to the Daily Telegraph of London http://tinyurl.com/6yk3f2 , this tweak is being done because the earth is gradually slowing down as it spins on its axis. It will be the 24th such adjustment since 1972.
This leap year of 2008 already was lengthened by an extra day on February 29. The extra second will make it the longest year since 1992.
Now you have more time. What will you do with it?
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Awesome post. Crazy world. I must Google this. Surely astrologers & physicists alike must be abuzz.
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