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Date: January 24, 2013 08:31AM
Homeless, the earth will not stop rotating within a few millennia.
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/tours-events/2012_Leap_Second%20Press%20Release%20-%20120120.pdf"Confusion sometimes arises over the misconception that the occasional insertion of leap seconds every few years indicates that the Earth should stop rotating within a few millennia. This is because some mistake leap seconds to be a measure of the rate at which the Earth is slowing. The one-second increments are, however, indications of the accumulated difference in time between the two systems."