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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike S) writes:
: At 06:36 PM 7/16/2005, Robert Lutwak wrote...
: >As for concern that people in 10,000 years won't conform to having the sun
come up 15 minutes earlier, I'd say y'all are underestimating the power of
adaptive evolution.
: Innumeracy or deliberate and egregious understatement? AM and PM
: would be reversed in about 1/2 that time. I'd say y'all are
: underestimating the problems a very fundamental change in the basis
: for timekeeping will create.
I assume that you are looking at:
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
Also, the following is a good resource
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html
Also, not everyone is arguing for the outright elimination of leap
seconds. Only for them ceasing to be random events with < 6 months
notice. No need to get so beligerent in your discourse.
Warner
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