[time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-13 Thread Steve Rooke
Sadly, the Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed in yesterday's, Mon 13th, after-shocks. There were two quite major shocks of 5.5 at 1pm followed by a 6 at 2:20pm centered around the Sumner suberb which is close to Lyttleton. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for tim

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-13 Thread brent evers
Dissapointing - I remember it being pointed out to me as we pulled into port there once. Are there others scattered around the globe? Brent On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Steve Rooke wrote: > Sadly, the Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed in yesterday's, Mon 13th, > after-shocks. There we

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-13 Thread Steve Rooke
I have seen no pictures of the current site but the quakes have downed several more buildings and many more are now added to the list of those that will need to be demolished. It will become a ghost town if this continues to happen. People are sick of the shocks and more are leaving as they are sca

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-13 Thread Dave Brown
o: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed I have seen no pictures of the current site but the quakes have downed several more buildings and many more are now added to

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread David J Taylor
Dissapointing - I remember it being pointed out to me as we pulled into port there once. Are there others scattered around the globe? Brent Edinburgh and Greenwich in the UK, perhaps others as well. http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2009/06/30/7110-1315/ http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/astronomy

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread Jose Camara
y, June 13, 2011 10:36 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed 'Before' and 'after' yesterdays quake - pix of the timeball station plus an item about it that appeared in a subu

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread Pieter ten Pierick
> Pity... Hopefully no one was working on the dismantling when nature decided > to help. > > Soon on eBay - "Slightly used timeball - local pickup only..." You missed the: "Some assembly required" ;-P Greetings, Pieter. ___ time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread EWKehren
I do not think this is funy. Bert Kehren In a message dated 6/14/2011 4:29:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, time-nuts-m...@tenpierick.com writes: > Pity... Hopefully no one was working on the dismantling when nature decided > to help. > > Soon on eBay - "Slightly used timeball - local pick

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread William H. Fite
"Some things are too serious not to laugh about." Albert Schweitzer On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:13 PM, wrote: > I do not think this is funy. Bert Kehren > > > In a message dated 6/14/2011 4:29:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > time-nuts-m...@tenpierick.com writes: > > > Pity... Hopefully no o

Re: [time-nuts] Lyttleton Time Ball completly collapsed

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Rooke
On 15 June 2011 10:13, wrote: > I do not think this is funy. Bert Kehren > > True, and I don't think it was funny for the guy who had a ball that day :) Sorry, only kidding, just couldn't resist, I'm not aware of anyone being injured in that building. I do hope they had already removed the mech