On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:49:59 +0100, Dr J R Stockton
 wrote:

> In comp.sys.raspberry-pi message , Sat, 15
> Apr 2017 12:17:27, rickman  posted:
>
>> At some point is will be easier to just change the rate of rotation of
>> the earth rather than do all the math required to track it.   lol
>
> See, at , formerly the International Earth
> Rotation Service, which I think was based at the Paris Observatory.
>
> I have a mental picture of a several muscular men, attired variously
> each in his own national dress, all sweating at a large crank-handle
> protruding from the Earth, while being supervised by a beret-wearing
> gauloise-smoking chap with a striped jersey and draped in strings of
> oignons, the Tour d'Eiffel being in the background..

I see a vast bureaucracy of sponging freeloaders.


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