[time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

William H. Fite omniryx at gmail.com
Wed May 11 13:12:06 UTC 2011


I suspect that was his point, beneath the hyperbole.

And, yes, we will.



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com>wrote:

> It's NASA's job to push technology.  That was half the
> reason for the moon project.
>
> If we get a $5 10-14 XO we'll find a use for it, no?
>
>
>
> On 05/09/2011 08:25 AM, William H. Fite wrote:
>
>>  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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