[time-nuts] Overheard from NASA
William H. Fite
omniryx at gmail.com
Mon May 9 15:25:37 UTC 2011
Overheard from a senior NASA research metrologist:
"The only reason we're doing it is because we *can* (improving clock
accuracy, said in the context of the aluminum clock). We can already time
so accurately, just as an example, that if we launched a spacecraft today
toward Sirius we could predict its location when the craft arrived many
thousands of years from now, to within a thousand miles or so."
That's not a precise quote but it is a close paraphrase.
Heck, I thought that was why time nuts did it, anyway.
"Because it's there."
George Mallory, 1924
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