I’m not sure why, but for some reason I found this very cool. I need to think of ways to make up for the lost Microsecond though, I hate to think of all the lost productivity this will add up to, I may be cheated out of 1/20th of a breath before I die, that is unacceptable.
Between that and going on daylight saving time next week, I’m going to be losing sleep. I’ll be like a walking zombie.
And you know what that signifies…
Au contraire, my dear chap! If the earth’s rotation has changed, and each day has become 1.26 microseconds shorter, that doesn’t mean that your biological clock has changed by the same amount. So you will be living longer! Instead of living something like 29200 days (approx. 80 years), you will be living 29200 days + 0.2 seconds (assuming you live approx. 40 years+ after the earthquake).
Isn’t the rotation of the Earth slowing due to friction with the moon? How many years did the Earth just gain before becoming tidally locked with the moon?
That’s going to totally fuck up Social Security.
Which raises the vexing question of how best to use this extra time. On the one hand it’s hard to think of something useful to do with it, but on the other hand one wouldn’t want to just… waste it.
Point-of-order: Zombie jokes belong in threads pertaining to the Haiti earthquake.
Eight hours will now be more than one-third of day; I think the extra 0.42 microseconds working should be paid at time-and-a-half.
I wouldn’t celebrate the extra per-lifetime 0.2 seconds though; everyone reading this has already blown that bonus and more. :smack:
Indeed. Chilean earthquakes should bring on potato jokes, including couch potato and mouse potato jokes.
A hunger for brains?
Isn’t “walking zombie” redundant? Isn’t that one of the main problems with zombies is that they are walking around and not being good little dead people?
That’s to distinguish me from the zombies that are swimming, biking, or dancing.