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A day on Earth is now shorter than 24 hours. Here's why A day on Earth is now shorter than 24 hours. Here's why Earth is rotating on its axis faster than it has in a half-century -- implying that each day on the planet is now shorter than 24 hours. Is this the first time that the planet is spinning faster or has it happened before. Read onto know. advertisement Earth is spinning slightly faster than it has in a half century. (Image: AP) Time is flying quicker this year as Earth is spinning around faster than it has in a half-century. This means each day on the blue planet is now shorter than ...

Mysterious News Briefly — January 6, 2021 A talented auto mechanic is converting an electric Tesla to gasoline by removing the batteries and replacing them with a V8 engine from a 2010 Chevy Camaro. This guy needs to be careful that Elon Musk doesn’t land his next rocket on his garage. The U.S. Congress is demanding a report investigating the December collapse of the iconic radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in order to determine if funding should be approved to rebuild it. Perhaps Congress should ask the secret UFO department to release its data on how many ETs used Ar...

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:57 UTC © Stocktrek Images via Getty ImagesMany of us wish we could get through this difficult year as quickly as possible. Seems the Earth feels the same way — it has been spinning unusually fast lately. 2020 included the 28 shortest days since 1960. Atomic Clocks Expose Earth's Irregular Speed The Earth is an excellent timekeeper: on average, with respect to the Sun, it rotates once every 86,400 seconds, which equals 24 hours, or one mean solar day. But it is not perfect. When highly accurate atomic clocks were developed in the 1960s, they showed that the length of a m...

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