My favourite science news today

[caomhinmaca]

We all need to enjoy the day *quickly* today - it's 1.26 microseconds shorter thanks to the Chile earthquake - the earth is spinning faster with more mass shoved nearer the core

Comments

[purplecthulhu]

Damn - and just when the days were getting longer!

[sharikkamur]

If you can still fit the global population on Jersey (isn't that the normal setting for these things) then I wonder if that would be enough to disturb the centre of gravity sufficiently to change the day length by a similar amount.

I love these quirky little science stories - they lead you to ask the strangest questions.