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ISS Local Time Day
The one time of the year when nobody can say that there just aren't enough hours in the day. | |
On ISS Local Time Day - call it November
2nd, to mark the first day of habitation -
we
continually adopt the time zone of
whichever bit of Earth the International
Space Station is currently passing over.
Since ISS makes about 16 orbits per day
that's just under 400 hours crammed into
one
day.
Except it's really still 24 hours, heavily
fragmented.
I'm just off for my 5th breakfast now.
(It's in the public:holiday category, but it
ain't one; how you and your employer
negotiate the overtime rates is up to
you.)
Tracking the ISS
http://news.bbc.co..../nature/7321116.stm
Scroll down to the tracking image at the bottom and leave the page open for about 10 minutes while you get on with other stuff. Come back to it and see from the trail just how far the thing has moved during that time. [boysparks, Mar 30 2008]
NASA ISS Tracking
http://spaceflight....tracking/index.html
[boysparks] link is good, but this one is too (shows whole earth and the line of the orbit) [neutrinos_shadow, Mar 30 2008]
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If there were 400 hours in a day, I'd sleep for 300 of them. |
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I wonder what time they use on the ISS? |
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GMT - and damn right too. Greenwich is still the centre of the world. |
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But why build a quantum clock and only use it for one day each year? I mean, for sixteen days, but only for twenty-four hours... no, I had it right the first time, only... Oh, never mind. |
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