[154521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Jul 5 13:47:38 2012
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From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:46:56 -0700
To: Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>=20
> And, by the way, the deformations and exchanges of angular momentum
> that drive Earth rotation variations are probably the best understood
> global geophysical processes there are. Absolutely no magic is
> required.
Not the tectonic ones. The deeper geophysical ones yes, but tectonics is ir=
regular. We understand the underlying plate segment motions well but they e=
xpress very irregularly over year-decade scales.
George William Herbert
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