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 the earth, >> > > > 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 indeed exists (although ionosphere > would likely to spoil party at some degree). 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.
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