By 2050, will humans pump significant quantities of ocean water towards the poles to reduce leap seconds?
By 2050, will humans pump significant quantities of ocean water towards the poles to reduce leap seconds?
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This market will resolve YES if there exists a project to reduce the frequency of leap seconds by pumping water towards the poles. The project must have resulted in at least one leap second being eliminated - in other words, the earth's rotation must have sped up by at least second relative to expectations without the project.
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I think we'd be more likely to come up with a way of "smearing" the leap seconds across the course of the year. I remember reading somewhere that Google does this.
On the other hand, America is still on the imperial system so who knows if it would get adoption.
I'm sure this could have no devastating and unpredictable effects on ocean life and ocean circulation patterns
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