Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread David C. Partridge
The problem is to fit the x-ray pulsar into the spacecraft without a) killing everyone and b) collapsing the spacecraft under its gravitational field :-) Regards, David Partridge -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Jim

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Why xray pulsars? Millisecond pulsars have shown themselves to be very accurate - wouldn't an ensemble of those be a better choice? Jim On 10 May 2011 13:45, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: I wasn't intending to cast aspersions... I was more giving an example of somewhere that atomic

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Javier Herrero
I suppose that Jim refers to receive the signal from the already avaliable and conveniently fitted ones (at a safe distance from the spacecraft and users :) ) instead of having one on-board Regards, Javier El 10/05/2011 12:22, David C. Partridge escribió: The problem is to fit the x-ray

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Steve Rooke
On 10 May 2011 22:56, Javier Herrero jherr...@hvsistemas.es wrote: I suppose that Jim refers to receive the signal from the already avaliable and conveniently fitted ones (at a safe distance from the spacecraft and users :) ) instead of having one on-board Just to point out, I guess you may

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/11 3:43 AM, Jim Palfreyman wrote: Why xray pulsars? Millisecond pulsars have shown themselves to be very accurate - wouldn't an ensemble of those be a better choice? Jim I think it's an energy/flux density thing. you need a big antenna to detect the millisecond pulsars.. bigger

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/11 3:56 AM, Javier Herrero wrote: I suppose that Jim refers to receive the signal from the already avaliable and conveniently fitted ones (at a safe distance from the spacecraft and users :) ) instead of having one on-board Yes.. I've been working on a portable one in my garage...I

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Javier Herrero
El 10/05/2011 15:10, Steve Rooke escribió: Just to point out, I guess you may have overlooked the smiley at the end of David's post. I did not ;) Did you see mine? (I was just too tempted) Regards Javier -- Javier

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Steve Rooke
On 11 May 2011 01:21, Javier Herrero jherr...@hvsistemas.es wrote: El 10/05/2011 15:10, Steve Rooke escribió: Just to point out, I guess you may have overlooked the smiley at the end of David's post. I did not ;) Did you see mine? (I was just too tempted) I don't blame you but did you

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread Javier Herrero
El 10/05/2011 16:22, Steve Rooke escribió: On 11 May 2011 01:21, Javier Herrerojherr...@hvsistemas.es wrote: El 10/05/2011 15:10, Steve Rooke escribió: Just to point out, I guess you may have overlooked the smiley at the end of David's post. I did not ;) Did you see mine? (I was just too

Re: [time-nuts] Overheard from NASA

2011-05-10 Thread 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*

Re: [time-nuts] Distribution amp

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/09/2011 08:17 AM, Bob Bownes wrote: I know it has come up in the past so I thought I would check here before hunting one down in the outside world. Anyone have a suitable distribution amplifier that they are looking to part with? My consumer device count has exceeded my source capability.

[time-nuts] SVN49 - she's finally put into a deep sleep

2011-05-10 Thread Pete Lancashire
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