Trust me, you don't want to get on the wrong side of the paramilitary enforcement arm of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.

"Foucault Pendulum", by Randall Munroe, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License

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Trust me, you don't want to get on the wrong side of the paramilitary enforcement arm of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.