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Mount Etna eruption closes airports and 'knocks clocks 15 minutes fast'
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| updated at 8:42 AM on 11th July 2011
Posted on 07/13/2011 11:57:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/13/2011 11:57:38 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
Oddity ping.
What’n’ell would make MANY digital clocks run faster?
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:05:31 PM PDT
by
FrogMom
(There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: FrogMom
A lot of digital clocks are synchronized based on the frequency of the electrical grid. It the eruption knocked that out if wack it could mess up clocks.
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:07:46 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
4
posted on
07/13/2011 12:14:16 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps digital clocks are the natural prey of volcanic eruptions?
It could happen. :)
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:16:30 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
(Mr. Obama can't count.)
To: mnehring
Can’t they just turn back the clocks and regain the 15 minutes? /s
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:17:14 PM PDT
by
donozark
(Beware the Imposter from Mombasa...)
To: mnehring
>>>A lot of digital clocks are synchronized based on the frequency of the electrical grid. It the eruption knocked that out if wack it could mess up clocks.
Explain the watches running fast also mentioned in the article...
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:18:50 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: RexBeach
>>>Perhaps digital clocks are the natural prey of volcanic eruptions?
Like tornados prey on trailer parks :)
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:20:00 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: mnehring
A lot of digital clocks are synchronized based on the frequency of the electrical grid. It the eruption knocked that out if wack it could mess up clocks. <speculation>
For that to happen, the grid would have to have been operating at higher than its normal frequency. Assuming they use 50 Hz power and the grid running at 55 Hz, the clocks would run 10% fast. To gain 15 minutes, the grid would have to have been running that fast for over two hours (actually, 150 minutes). (I'd think that some alarm at the power stations would have been going off for that entire time.)
</speculation>
9
posted on
07/13/2011 12:20:05 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: FrogMom
The volcano obviously bent space-time in the vicinity.
To: Keith in Iowa
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:21:18 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
(Mr. Obama can't count.)
To: mnehring
I just noticed that digital watches were affected as well. I have no idea how that could, in any way possible, be related to the grid.
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:23:15 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Keith in Iowa
Actually a lot of clocks and watches use a quartz crystal to keep time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_watch
maybe the magnetic fields or some other interference is messing up the frequency the crystals vibrate?
13
posted on
07/13/2011 12:24:08 PM PDT
by
bigtoona
To: BenLurkin
Imagine Europeans showing up for work early
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:26:30 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
To: BenLurkin
Sicilians are pissed, it caused them to suddenly start showing up on time to all their appointments.
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:26:32 PM PDT
by
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:28:47 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
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To: Defiant
Maybe we should have a volcano put in Washington. That would keep Ø from runnig habitually late for meetings and events.
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:34:28 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/13/2011 12:49:43 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: BenLurkin
The Local Don was pissed.
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posted on
07/13/2011 1:41:21 PM PDT
by
JimC214
To: RexBeach
Now we know what happened to the FR posting time indicator.
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posted on
07/13/2011 1:53:32 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
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