Earth spinning faster than normal

[underwaterrhymes]

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article264087526.html

I feel like this should be making bigger headlines? *breathes into a paper bag*

[NewOrleans]

Even the earth just wants to get it all over with already.

[Bad Dingo]

What.The.Fuck.

[eponinepontmercy]

Join the club, planet earth.

[TR]

Cool. Go faster and just launch us all off. Honestly.

[Velar Fricative]

WTF

[Deleted]

Apparently this is due to “sloshing” (guessing that’s not a technical term)? Fascinating.

[dancingirl21]

The world is quite literally spinning out of control. Cool, cool.

[pixy0stix]

I want to go back to the 10 minutes before I read this. I don't need something else to worry about.

[noodleoo]

Wait, why are we freaking out about this?  The time it takes for Earth to complete a rotation has probably changed countless times over the centuries.  We only know about it now because we have developed tools to measure it.  It is kind of naïve to think anything natural will be constant with the models we've created for them.

Australian astronomer Fred Watson explained to ABC, saying “when you start looking at the real nitty gritty, you realize that Earth is not just a solid ball that is spinning.” “It’s got liquid on the inside, it’s got liquid on the outside, and it’s got an atmosphere and all of these things slosh around a bit,” Watson told ABC.

[AJL]

We sure can find anything to freak out about, can't we.

[pixy0stix]

Aug 4, 2022 9:51:41 GMT -5 AJL said:

We sure can find anything to freak out about, can't we.

It's nice to freak out about something that is completely different than the regular stuff I freak out about. ::shrug::

[AJL]

Aug 4, 2022 10:43:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Aug 4, 2022 9:51:41 GMT -5 AJL said:

We sure can find anything to freak out about, can't we.

It's nice to freak out about something that is completely different than the regular stuff I freak out about. ::shrug::

😂
I can get behind this.

[wildrice]

1.5 milliseconds faster? I think we will survive that.

[underwaterrhymes]

Clearly the breezy folks didn’t read The Age of Miracles. 😂