bach37strad
We live inside a dream. But who is the dreamer?
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Delays in network infrastructure. While most signals going between large nodes/hubs will be fiber optic, there’s quite a few old school copper connections between you and the time server that will slow things down. My ping to my closest node, with all my fiber and cat5e connections is still 20ms.
You’re probably better off using a cellphone time than a desktop computer to a website, since the cell network accounts for the difference in time dilation between us and the satellites (Einsteinien relativity amitright?) supposedly well enough for network infrastructure to work.
You’re also getting to “is the processor in the watch fast enough” territory. That’s a bit beyond me though.
Unless time.whateverthefuck is running their own cesium clocks, which I doubt. The gshock should be more accurate when synced. 60khz radio waves sent by NIST travel at the speed of light. That is standard em radio propagation. Your computer meanwhile theoretically does, it runs through God knows many nodes, bounced around until it finally gets back to you. I guess they could try to establish your location and correct, but eh…
Now let’s talk about why your watch can’t transmit. Well it could, but you’d need to carry around a giant antenna and a few kilowatts worth of rms power generation to even be heard over normal background noise at any reasonable distance. The wwvb towers in Denver host an antenna that is electrically one quarter wavelength (1250meters) but obviously not actually that long because that’s 10x the towers. They use a series of coils and stretch horizontally to make up for the rest. They power this antenna 24/7 at 70kw. Part of the reason it’s in Denver is central location to the country for best average timekeeping. Height above ground also rules when it comes to radio waves.
Im not going to go into the code that’s actually transmitted because even as a HAM operator I don’t know it all myself, but just know that it uses a system of 1s and 0s by pulsing the carrier wave to tell ever clock that’s listening “it will be 2:35pm in… 3…2…1…NOW”. Feel free to watch this much less baked youtuber explain.
The reason your watch will always be off by the speed of light at best is the radio station doesn’t know where every single person is and can’t send out 300,000 signals to tell each one what their specific time is.
Let’s gloss over the fact that by the time the light gets from the screen to your eyes, it’s TECHNICALLY wrong anyways…
If your interested check out NIST and WWVB website. Thats actually one of the things that got me interested in radio. side note I always wear a radio controlled casio. Sometimes a g. Mostly a field style lcw m100.
Torque is a measurement of rotational force. Brooms would technically have thrust. If I remember my high school physics, a Broom would need at least 980 Newtons of thrust to liftoff your average sized witch.
As far as covers go, it’s new it’s creative, and would still sound good if you’d never heard the dire straits. I dig it man.
Fun fact: Mark Knopfler, the lead guitarist from the Dire Straits is also a pretty incredible classic country musician. He’s put out at least a couple albums playing with Chet Atkins, on account of their similar fingerpicking styles.
Yeah that’s basically your classic American barber. Gossipy, usually bored, willing to hang around, joke and talk. That’s what I love about actual barber shops, guys in my neighborhood will just hang around there too if their friends/neighbors are getting a cut. It’s usually a one hour experience minimum, even though the cut takes 15 min and cost $12.
I always thought the joke was that after almost 400 years, the barbershop experience was the same. You could replace Capt Picard with Andy Griffith and Mot with Floyd and no one would blink.
