Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-02 Thread Arne Kristian Jansen
Federico Lorenzi skrev: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Ilja O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:26 PM, cdr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?)

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-02 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
IHMO, Doris and Poséidon precision is also pretty astounding, albeit not so well-known ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DORIS_(geodesy) . Rodolphe Le dimanche 01 juin 2008 à 23:04 +0200, Philippe Guillebert a écrit : cdr wrote: the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, Hey, According

atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread cdr
And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?) the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, to receive the one in Colorado (or Hawaii, 3330 in Canada..), youd need some chip like Si4735

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread Ilja O.
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:26 PM, cdr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?) the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, But why there are no clocks at the orbit? They could

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Ilja O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:26 PM, cdr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?) the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting

RE: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread Tim Newsom
To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?) the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, to receive the one in Colorado (or Hawaii, 3330

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread polz
On Sunday 01 June 2008 21:33:15 Ilja O. wrote: But why there are no clocks at the orbit? They could be useful enough. E.g. if there are several of them each on predefined geostationary orbit we could do lots of useful things with them! For example, we could prove that general relativity

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread Philippe Guillebert
cdr wrote: the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, Hey, According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS ), every GPS satellite carries an atomic clock, providing every receiver on earth with really precise clock. The radio clock systems you describe are different and kinda

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread AVee
On Sunday 01 June 2008 21:33, Ilja O. wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:26 PM, cdr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And portable thermonuclear bomb. Just in case. (Well, phone is already hand interface to several orbital atomic clocks, isn't it?) the atomic clock(s) arent orbiting the earth, But

Re: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread Ilja O.
Huh, I'm a little confused about whats being spoken about here, but the GPS satellites are effectively giant orbiting atomic clocks, its the basis of GPS. Hey, According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS ), every GPS satellite carries an atomic clock, providing every