I caught a piece on the radio this morning explaining that we're getting an extra pip at midnight when an extra second is added to this year - a "leap second" if you will.
I have to admit to being half-asleep and a teensy bit hungover, so it didn't make a great deal of sense, particularly when they tried to explain that the pips "had escaped" earlier in the year (which sounded frankly terrifying in a boring, sciencey kind of a way), so I'll leave it to someone a bit more coherent than me to explain it...
Happy New Year :-)
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The extra second is because the urning of the world is slowing down.
If it keeps slowing down, surely time wil stop and we'll all live forever.
Then again, who the fuck notices the earth is turning a second slower than it did before.. I mean, when did they get the suspicion it was slowing down; have they been spending 50 years timing the earths rotation and finally - WE'VE LOST A SECOND.
Finally they have purpose.
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