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Default Mount Etna eruption closes airports and 'knocks clocks 15 minutes fast'

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:06:25 -0400, LilAbner wrote:

Well uh Iguess since boats go to Sicily this can be a rec boat post?

Eweueeuwee.
Little green men?



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...utes-fast.html


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The local power grid must have lost count of their cycles for whatever
reason. Clocks will run either fast or slow as a result. Power grid
operators must produce exactly the same number of AC power cycles
every day for that reason.