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Undertoad 09-04-2018 05:31 PM
It's an atomic clock -- it's literally made of atoms!

tw 09-04-2018 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by sexobon (Post 1014449)
There are stations at two locations, WWV and WWVB in the state of Colorado (longwave broadcasts) and WWVH (shortwave broadcasts) on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii.
Meanwhile most electronics do not use 60 Khz. Where stations are located says relevant. Stations in those two locations service then entire US and territories - millions of appliances.

Meanwhile what makes it all work? Cesium. NIST is now under siege.

Never mind.

sexobon 09-05-2018 07:48 PM
So, you're like saying, millions of appliances are too much to sacrifice for champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

Let them eat cesium, peasant.

Gravdigr 09-06-2018 04:54 AM
I cesium what you did there.

tw 09-06-2018 10:22 AM
Ayn Rand got it all wrong. The future is not in blue-green steel. The future is in cesium. The NIST has also transported cesium atoms. This long before Captain Kirk was born.

xoxoxoBruce 09-07-2018 02:00 AM
Cellerites, lurkers, and google bots, lend me twenty bucks.
For I have come to bury cesium, not praise it.

tw 09-07-2018 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1014591)
For I have come to bury cesium, not praise it.
Always bury cesium 137.


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