[time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

[Magnus Danielson]

On 10/25/2010 10:16 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote:
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>> Normally, the brain dies from lack of oxygen to maintain cellular
>> activity. Not only is this not instantaneous, it is the cause of
>> stories of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel that are told by
>> those who have been brought back from legal death.
>>
>> Two observations:
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>> You can't have everything. Where would you put it? (S. Wright)
>>
>> It would take an extraordinary ego to believe that anyone would
>> care about your exact time of death.
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> If you want a sub-microsecond time of death, sit on a bomb like Major T. J. "King" Kong in "Dr. Strangelove," and get your friends to time and triangulate the prompt radiation. That should be good to a few 10's of nanoseconds.

The GPS satellites NUDET payload does this and then transmit their 
measurements on the L3 band. They pin down the place of blast to within 
a few 100 m so it gives a fairly good precision in time-measurement.

The L3 band is at 135*10,23 MHz by the way. Radio-astronomers have 
learned to hate it, despite the filtering being done to keep the radio 
astronomers happy. There is some interesting papers to be found relating 
to way of cancelling the L3 signals out of the observations.

Cheers,
Magnus