What's a then thousandth of a second here or there, Cin? That's frelling awesome! The rotation of the Earth changed measurably from that.

Well, I want all the clocks recalibrated, so I live longer, on paper, then.

Hee!

Huh, the United Christian Children's Fund whipped up a new segment to their usual commercials pretty darned fast. They just did one talking about how "23,000 need children died last night," and how we need to chip in to help the ones still alive. That's some good response time.

Also? THUNDERSTORM!!! Like, multiple lightning strikes and stuff. This is the first on that's come close to being a real thunderstorm since I moved out here.

I was born before Cindy. The Earth moved slower then. In two millenniums from now, my experience of life will be nearly a full day richer in experience than Cindy's. She still will beat me to punch lines.

Sean will still be more pithy.

There is some kind of really obscure lesson, here.

cute nephew, Sara!

I was born before Cindy. The Earth moved slower then.

No, it was moving faster. Overall the earth continues to slow down. This speedup is just a short-term exception to that.

And the moon continues to move away from the earth. (This is in fact related to the earth slowing down.) At some point in the future the moon will be too far from the earth to cause a total eclipse of the sun.

At some point in the future the moon will be too far from the earth to cause a total eclipse of the sun.

Also, it will be too far away to keep us from not flipping end-over-end constantly. Gonna be a lot of fun when that happens.

The day has been getting longer and longer by about 0.0016 seconds each century. >[link]

Oh, so it will take more than half a century for the earth to slow down to the speed it was before the earthquake.

Also, it will be too far away to keep us from not flipping end-over-end constantly.

I'm sure we will have giant magnets embedded in the earth's crust to prevent that....

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I was born before Cindy. The Earth moved slower then.

No, it was moving faster.

Well, I hear that, before the rock-what-would-become-the-moon hit us, they think we were spinning pretty slowly. But Gus probably isn't that old. Not that "Older than the Moon" doesn't have wicked cool potential.

giant magnets embedded in the earth's crust to prevent that....

We already have that, tommy, it's called an iron core. More likely, huge supercooled magnets placed in geosynchronous orbit around the earth, to replace the gravitational pull of the moon.