The ePiC rAMblInGs of Justisengard

So I am checking Google News this morning and see this in the Tech section.

Tick tock … tick: Extra second added to 2008

The world’s official timekeepers have added a “leap second” to the last day of the year on Wednesday, to help match clocks to the Earth’s slowing spin on its axis, which takes place at ever-changing rates affected by tides and other factors.

That slowing spin of the Earth’s axis is the part that was a bit alarming.  I really hope that this is normal.  You know unlike that ‘natural’ melting of the polar icecaps, the regular extreme weather and the much warmer than normal (or should I say typical 70F Christmas) in North Carolina.

So we get an extra second.  Hopefully this does not mean IT people have to rush out and patch all the servers to account for this. 

Talk about timing.  Just a couple of weeks before the release of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Fireball Sparks amazement in Canada

Check out the video.

It would seem from the article (First Moon Picture Back from China’s Chang’e Probe) that everybody in Asia is in a space race.

Already, an Asian space race is well in gear, with Japan’s moon probe a
few weeks ahead of Chang’e in lunar orbit, an Indian probe planned, and
a South Korean lunar exploration project announced just last week.

So when we all going to come together under one multi-national space agency and invent warp drive?

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Just shows that we do not always know everything that we think we know.

justisengard dugg this:

“Ironically,” says Barsoum, “this study of 4,500 year old rocks is not about the past, but about the future.”

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