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Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year

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From "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid>
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Subject Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year
Date Tue, 3 Jan 2017 11:27:51 -0600
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On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 06:45:07 +0000
Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sam E <why.should.this@be.email.invalid> writes:
> 
> > On 01/02/2017 02:00 PM, Andy Burns wrote:  
> >> Wolf K wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Paleontologists and such use YBP = Years Before Present.  
> >>
> >> That's only so they can sell a re-print of their books every ten
> >> million or so years.  
> >
> > What if we could determine the exact time of the big bang, and use
> > that?  
> 
> In what frame of reference?

I'm just still getting a big kick out of, "...time of the Big Bang."

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
"When will, "then," be, "now"?"
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