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Why can the American gesture for the phrase I Love You be confused with a rocker goat?

In the American sign language - Amslen - the sign for the phrase "I Love You" is formed by simultaneously showing the signs of the letters I, L and Y. This combination produces a gesture with three fingers extended (thumb, index and little finger) and two pressed fingers (middle and ring fingers). ). The uninitiated may mistake this gesture of the deaf for a rocker "goat", although in the classic goat the thumb is also pressed to the palm.

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How long are the days?

Depends on the circumstances.

A day is a period of time during which the Earth makes one rotation around its axis. And it's never exactly twenty-four hours.

Amazingly, this indicator can fluctuate in one direction or another for as much as fifty seconds! This is because the speed of the Earth's rotation changes all the time - due to friction caused by synoptic situations, tides, and geological events.

On an average year, a day is a fraction of a second shorter than twenty-four hours.

When these discrepancies were revealed with the help of atomic clocks, it was decided to redefine the second as a fixed fraction of a "solar" day, - more precisely, one million six hundred and forty thousandth.

The new second came into use in 1967 and is defined as "a time interval equal to 9 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-192 atom in the absence of perturbation by external fields." You can’t say more precisely - it’s just too dreary to pronounce all this at the end of a long day.

The new definition of the second means that the solar day gradually shifts in relation to the atomic. As a result, scientists had to introduce the so-called "leap second" (or "jump second") into the atomic year in order to align the atomic year with the solar year.

The last "leap second" (already the seventh since the establishment of Coordinated Universal Time - UTC in 1972) was added on December 31, 2005 at the direction of the International Service for Estimating the Parameters of the Rotation and Coordinates of the Earth, based at the Paris Observatory.

Good news for astronomers and those of us who love clocks to keep pace with the Earth's movement around the Sun, but a headache for computer programs and all the hardware that runs on space satellites.

The idea of introducing a "leap second" met with a strong rebuff from the International Telecommunication Union, which even made a formal proposal to completely abolish it by December 2007.

Of course, a compromise is possible: wait until the difference between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) reaches exactly one hour (somewhere in 400 years) and even then put everything in order. In the meantime, the debate around what counts as "real" time continues.

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