Real-time Mind Control Zombie Zot

http://www.MindControlUSA.com ^ | 12/23/06 | BibleBabe1

[fanfan]

It’s a very odd feeling.

I didn’t like it at all.

[darkangel82]

Hmm...
How do you know it’s really 2008? And how do you know any of us are really are? Maybe we’re just floating out in space somewhere(well, this is the Flying Castle after all)

[darkangel82]

are really are= are really here*

[fanfan]

You are more right than you know......

How do you know it’s really 2008?

I don't know, I guess I just take it on trust. Other cultures count time differently, so for them, 2008 is meaningless.

And how do you know any of us are really here?

Exactly. Where is here, anyway?

Maybe we’re just floating out in space somewhere

At the speed of 600,000 miles per hour, as a matter of fact.

[fanfan]

On-Time Earth Baffles Scientists Experts: Planet's Speed Through Space Should Slow Slightly, But Hasn't

(AP)

A phenomenon that has scientists puzzled

Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia. To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year.

For 28 years, scientists repeated the procedure. But in 1999, they discovered the Earth was no longer lagging behind.

At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia. But he said they don't have a good explanation for why it's suddenly on schedule.

Possible explanations include the tides, weather and changes in the Earth's core, he said.

The leap second was an unexpected consequence of the 1955 invention of the atomic clock, which use the electromagnetic radiation emanated by Cesium atoms to measure time. It is extremely reliable.

Atomic-based Coordinated Universal Time was implemented in 1972, superseding the astronomically determined Greenwich Mean Time.

Leap seconds can be a big deal, affecting everything from communication, navigation and air traffic control systems to the computers that link global financial markets.

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What is time? That is the question.

[fanfan]

Apparently these guys know what time it is.

Not nearly as exciting, IMO.

[NicknamedBob]

"What is time? That is the question."

Sundials work best.

Scientifically speaking, of course. Since the referenced article is talking about measuring the length of a day according to the rotation of the Earth, a sundial by definition gives an accurate reading.

It also works on Mars. Although Mars has a slightly different rate of rotation, the sundial gives a completely dependable indication of local noon. Midnight is more problematic.

Our particular orbit, out here in the asteroid belt, was chosen to be as close to four years in duration as possible. That makes calculating back and forth slightly easier.

At four years, (4 X 365.25 days = 1461 days), and an estimated 186,000,000 miles from the Sun, our local speed of orbit would be two pi times 186,000,000 miles / 1461 X 24 hours.

I get approximately 33,330 miles per hour.

By comparison, Earth is rocketing along.

[fanfan]

Midnight is more problematic.

Why?

[NicknamedBob]

Midnight is more problematic.

"Why?"

At midnight, on Mars, or in your garden, you need to take a flashlight with you to read the sundial.

[fanfan]

ROFLOL!

Thanks, Bob.

You always make me laugh.

:-D

[sionnsar]

Sionnsar is pretty sneaky, eh?
I thought I’d entered a time warp when I got here.

You did. *\;-)

[sionnsar]

LOL!

[rottndog]

Happy New Year Fan!

[rottndog]

So this is the New Years Undead Thread.

Only for another 61,400 posts...

[rottndog]

What is time? That is the question.

I believe a scientist of some note once said time is your place in space.

[rottndog]

First official thread killing of 2008.

[NicknamedBob]

What in just an hour?

I’m digesting a wonderful dinner.

[Monkey Face]

You are too hard on yourself!

Just call it a “thread knock-out.”

[Professional Engineer]

Ooops, we are going to be interviewed.

So you've been to Roswell too.

[Professional Engineer]

Current temperature fifty degrees Fahrenheit. I think that's ten Celcius. No snowmen.

It's supposed to hit 25 here tonight. I love negative numbers.