Lunar Time
Not only do you need leap seconds to keep solar time and atomic time in sync, you'll need a different kind of leap second to keep Lunar atomic time and Earth atomic time in sync, because mass distorts spacetime.
So good luck with that...
Defining lunar time is not simple:
Although the definition of the second is the same everywhere, the special theory of relativity dictates that clocks tick slower in stronger gravitational fields. The Moon's gravitational pull is weaker than Earth's, meaning that, to an observer on Earth, a lunar clock would run faster than an Earth one. Gramling estimates that a lunar clock would gain about 56 microseconds over 24 hours. Compared with one on Earth, a clock's speed would also subtly change depending on its position on the lunar surface, because of the Moon's rotation, says Tavella. "This is a paradise for experts in relativity, because you have to take into account so many things," she adds.
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Posting my "assassination coordinates"... in realtime
Posting my "assassination coordinates"... in realtime
Making a Fremen Thumper
I wanted to build a thumper. Not a movie prop replica, but as real of a thumper as I could manage. One that I could actually imagine getting used. This is the story of how I went about that, and what I ended up making.
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Stanford Torus
There is no sense in which moving people en masse to off-Earth habitats (on Mars or in space) will solve ANY of humanity's extremely pressing environmental or social problems, but I still want to go live in the cool space donut 🥺
If we solve Earth maybe we can have a little space donut, as a treat
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"Asteroid! Coming in from the void!"
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Space Junk
A third piece of space junk has been found in the NSW Snowy Mountains, believed to be linked to a SpaceX craft.
Two other pieces of debris were recently found by farmers at neighbouring properties in Numbla Vale, after a loud bang was heard in the region on July 9. Many of those who heard the bang took to social media to report it across the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW, and as far away as Albury, Wagga Wagga and Canberra. [...]
Dr Tucker said, "This doesn't happen that often, so it's not like you pull out this standard 'space junk landed in my sheep paddock' form. There's a lot of unique work that has to be done."
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