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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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I finally stumped google!
I was watching TV and TMZ came on and they mentioned one of the astronauts and that he was wearing three watches. I really wasn't paying attention to the TV but that little tidbit made me think...What time zone are you in when you're on the moon? Does it change? How do they tell time when they are there or do they just go by whatever time zone they are dealing with back on earth.If we are going to be getting into space travel as predicted I'm thinking this might have to be answered at some point.So now as always I start my Internet search for the answer. For the first time ever in all my years on the Internet, no matter how I worded the question,I could not get an answer.
Has this ever happened before? Now I am am not sure what has me more frustrated the fact that I stumped google, or the fact that I still don't have an answer to my question, or the fact that I have not been out to see Kam in weeks and still have another week to go and I'm about as horny as a women can possibly get?
Life can be very frustrating at times but I promise I will keep searching to find my answer if I have to call NASA! (Although it would be much easier to just call the Challenger space museum and ask them during regular business hours.)I have done two or three space missions there where you are actually reenacting different missions and are in the position of the crew in the shuttle or on the ground and its great fun if you ever get to try it! You would think I would know this answer by now.
So have you stumped google and /or other search engines? Or do you have my answer? Maybe if you couldn't find your answer you can post your question here and have a game of who can find the answer first.Some people are just great at searching and seem to find answers to everything.We even have a few people that make up answers but they sound so believable who cares if they aren't true.lol
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| September 9, 2011, 05:28 |
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Re: I finally stumped google!
i found this bit of info using BING:
The moon has its own time zone
It is possible to tell time on the moon. In fact, back in 1970, Helbros Watches asked Kenneth L. Franklin, who for many years was the chief astronomer at New York's Hayden Planetarium, to design a watch for moon walkers that measures time in what he called "lunations," the period it takes the moon to rotate and revolve around the Earth; each lunation is exactly 29.530589 Earth days.
For the moon, Franklin developed a system he called "lunar mean solar time," or Lunar Time (LT). He envisioned local lunar time zones similar to the standard time zones of Earth, but based on meridians that are 12-degrees wide (analogous to the 15-degree intervals on Earth). "They will be named unambiguously as '36-degree East Zone time,' etc., although 'Copernican time,' 'West Tranquillity time' and others may be adopted as convenient." A lunar hour was defined as a "lunour," and decilunours, centilunours and millilunours were also introduced.
Interestingly, one moon watch was sent to the president of the United States at the time, Richard M. Nixon, who sent a thank you note to Franklin. The note and another moon watch were kept in a display case at the Hayden Planetarium for several years.
Quite a few visitors would openly wonder why Nixon was presented with a wristwatch that could be used only on the moon.
Forty years have come and gone without the watch becoming a big seller.
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| September 9, 2011, 11:43 |
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Re: I finally stumped google!
There are some tricks to using search engines like when your keywords are heteronyms, and for using ellipses in the search phrases.
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| September 10, 2011, 11:13 |
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perveman
111 / male
Tucson, Arizona, US
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Re: I finally stumped google!
All this intellectual stuff just confuses me, and kinda wierds me out. Sort of like trying to fathom never ending space. We, of finite minds, could go insane (no comment plz), trying to imagine, traveling at many light speeds, for millions of years (yes, I have the time), and never arriving to the end. Just freaks me out. 
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| September 10, 2011, 11:26 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: I finally stumped google!
I am pretty good at searching. I have never run across a time that I couldn't find the information I was looking for. Although I have a family member that makes me look like an amateur.I think the issue in this case is there is no real answer. LNH has come up with a persons proposal as to how it would work if, they chose to use the way we figure time on earth as a model. However as it was pointed out to me that because the astronauts are doing things based on the schedule of the people they are working with on earth it is not something that was ever an issue so more than likely never adopted any way as the correct way.I do plan on verifying this at some point even if I have to write to NASA.
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| September 10, 2011, 11:59 |
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Re: I finally stumped google!
Morgan Freeman Through the Wormhole-Science Channel
Episode - "Does Time Really Exist?"
I do so love this series!
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| September 10, 2011, 12:10 |
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By the way, none of this will matter anyway when I finish working through that whole unified theory thingy...
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| September 10, 2011, 12:25 |
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perveman
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Tucson, Arizona, US
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Re: I finally stumped google!
Yes Chazzy, getting back to that finite, or limited mind, if you will. And this has nothing to do with religion, I believe time was created, as we'd go nuts trying to rationlize, or think, or figure out eternity. Ya know, that no beginning, no end deal. Goe's far beyond our intellect. Hope it's ok to describe my belief this way. If not, I apologize ahead of time. But I'll check that program that you mentioned. Speaking of mentioning something......oh stop it perve, take your meds. (I'm glad I reviewed and edited, don't even want a hint of being offencive)
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| September 10, 2011, 12:39 |
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Re: I finally stumped google!
Complete episode listings on Science channel site and wiki...
Morgan Freeman is amazing as the host and narrator, the graphics are really cartoony, but overall...I love this series.
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| September 10, 2011, 12:53 |
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Re: I finally stumped google!
Cool stuff out there, theroies about time being much, much slower nearest the sun, Einstein and relativity, definitions on exactly what is our consciousness, time as another diminsion,
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| September 10, 2011, 13:08 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: I finally stumped google!
When I was searching this I came across a whole thing about Einsteins theory of relativity figuring into this in theory anyway. The issue I have is it seams that no one has officially adopted a "how to tell time in space or even on the moon" (in space it would be even more complicated I suspect.)
OMG, I so need to get laid . I am spending way to much time thinking about this. I must be board! 6 more days!!!I can't stay away this long again.
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| September 10, 2011, 16:26 |
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Grandelf
64 / male
Northern, Michigan, US
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Re: I finally stumped google!
This is a funny one though I am not sure it's correct. I believe you do a map search, on google.. directions from New York to London....and in the directions it will tell you how to get as far as the ocean, then literally tells you to swim so many thousand miles....and once ashore where to go from there! Again I am not sure those are the two cities but I think so....I know I tried other cities after that and those were the only two it worked with....
Well I tried it and now it no longer works.....sigh....it was funny anyway...no, really.
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| September 13, 2011, 06:15 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: I finally stumped google!
I do know developers will put things like that into a site at times to be funny. There was a company (I wish I could remember what one it was ...)that had obviously had so many people complaining about the long menus you get that they did something funny if you really listened to the whole menu. (Maybe it wasn't due to complaints but more because the guy who set it up had a sense of humor.)As you listen the the ever song list of "If you want the _____ department push ___" there was one in the mix that said "If you want to hear a duck quack push ___" And if you pushed the number they said you actually heard a recording of a duck quacking. (Of course I had to test it. lol)I do run into these things every once in awhile.
Computer guys have all kinds of stuff the put into their programs that are hidden for the most part unless you go looking for it. There was a site that used to tell you how to find some of these things. For example a video game that is just an average game but if you do a certain thing or put in a code it opens a secret x-rated level. The sellers do not contract for these.lol My kids showed it to me a long time ago.
The computer chips in your computers many times have hidden drawing on them. They did a whole show on these once. It's just a computer geek secret type of game.
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| September 13, 2011, 07:56 |
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