On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:22 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Chances are that any divergence between the rotation of the earth and UTC is
> unlikely to be noticed by enough people to stop this from happening, if the
> ITU says this "technical adjustment" needs to be made.
The divergence is a secular effect. A small effect - perhaps the ITU can fool
some of the people some of the time. But a cumulative effect - meaning they
can't fool all of the people all of the time.
> The Astronomers are affected the most, but there's not a lot of them and
> their power isn't huge.
Our power may not be huge - but our cause is just.
Rob
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“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail
a leg don't make it a leg.” - Abraham Lincoln
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