[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Mon Sep 15 10:08:00 EDT 2008


On Sep 15, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Tony Finch wrote:


> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>>

>

>> The only thing natural about the metric system is that humans have

>> ten fingers and the quadrant of the Earth something approximating

>> 10 megameters.

>

> The latter was an artificial and deliberate design choice. Nothing

> natural about it.


Some would say the same about the former :-)



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