[time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

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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