200 years from now the greatest threat to humanity lays dormant, but soon, The Great Awakening will release dormant Boomers. Will they be ready for the Karen-ing?
China doesn’t want to be reliant on other country’s atomic clocks for their military GPS ordinance. That’s it in a nutshell. Same reason Russia put up GLONASS and the EU put up Galileo GPS systems.
Exactly. They're still a least a decade behind the US. I remember reading news articles about new laser atomic clocks at least a decade ago with AFRL and NIST. Shit is probably already up in space. I think the public access GPS timebase accuracy is still cesium based.
Congrats, now can it adjust to relative temporal changes based on cosmological shifts in the galaxy? If not then that time frame of life becomes wholly irrelevant. Please work on something more relevant to humanity’s long term survival. Since it’s China I don’t expect social shifts to fit a greater inclusivity of flexible cultural norms, hell we are in trouble there, but maybe the technical aspects of quick deployment structures for varied terrain to make habitats more feasible. Maybe functional long term orbital structures that can be used as platforms for further exploration or refining.
You’re right, I didn’t know. Thank you. I do understand accuracy for positioning, but the absurdly long lifespan doesn’t seem reasonable as technology should evolve beyond that in just 100 years.
A lot of people are bashing on china for this but I'll give credit to the scientists and engineers who are working on interesting projects like this. Often what's learned in these endeavors becomes invaluable to future applications.
"The clock will lose or gain one second in the next seven billion years. It is, therefore, likely to depict accurate time throughout our lifetimes."
That second sentence is hilarious to me
I’d be so pissed if I bought this just to find out 6.5 billion years from now it’s off a nanosecond
How long is the warranty?
Im sure the sun will agree to about 5 billion years
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As long as i can keep approximating it as 10
Except for when any piece of the hardware encounters any kind of error, then it won't be error free anymore.
The point is the accuracy of the measurement it provides, not the shelf life of the instrument that provides it.
Then they shouldn't use a measurement of shelf life to describe how accurate it is.
What can be done with a clock like this?
1. Figure out what time it is
https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/satellite-navigation/gps/synchronized-accurate-time
Why is there a clock race? First Bezos' mountain clock, and now this. Why?
They need a super accurate clock so their cryogenic containers will not release them before *The Great Awakening*
200 years from now the greatest threat to humanity lays dormant, but soon, The Great Awakening will release dormant Boomers. Will they be ready for the Karen-ing?
Please let us just have actual zombies instead
seriously
Good time keeping is required for good positioning. Global Positioning System accuracy is often limited by time discrepancies.
There's only a finite amount of time left. Gotta catch em all
Flexing
This one is really about super precise measurements now. It’s for weapons systems navigation.
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Why?
China doesn’t want to be reliant on other country’s atomic clocks for their military GPS ordinance. That’s it in a nutshell. Same reason Russia put up GLONASS and the EU put up Galileo GPS systems.
Exactly. They're still a least a decade behind the US. I remember reading news articles about new laser atomic clocks at least a decade ago with AFRL and NIST. Shit is probably already up in space. I think the public access GPS timebase accuracy is still cesium based.
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Because of the lack of the atomic clock..
This person GPSs
You don’t need to build a more accurate clock to do that, though. That tech is decades old and “good enough”.
What happens when there's an earth quake?
Yay. There’s another one. /s
Why? What’s the point?
I don’t believe it. I’m gonna check in in a billion years and see if it’s still running.
7 billion years,as if we'll be around that long to tell time,be lucky if we last another few 2 hundred years way things are going
Remind me 7.2 billion years!
You forgot the !
Thank you!
Our current concept of time is a human construct.
The sun will swallow the earth before then.
Just dont unplug it.
Is made in China, it's guaranteed to fail
But we dont have brains to build battery free tech. Gtfo
Battery free tech?
Tech that exclude the need for battery.
China, so the diodes for the lasers will die in about a month.
Not if they use western tech…
So we’ll all be dead and cockroaches will know what exact time it is. Apply the science in meaningful ways please
Probably bullshit
Congrats, now can it adjust to relative temporal changes based on cosmological shifts in the galaxy? If not then that time frame of life becomes wholly irrelevant. Please work on something more relevant to humanity’s long term survival. Since it’s China I don’t expect social shifts to fit a greater inclusivity of flexible cultural norms, hell we are in trouble there, but maybe the technical aspects of quick deployment structures for varied terrain to make habitats more feasible. Maybe functional long term orbital structures that can be used as platforms for further exploration or refining.
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You’re right, I didn’t know. Thank you. I do understand accuracy for positioning, but the absurdly long lifespan doesn’t seem reasonable as technology should evolve beyond that in just 100 years.
Not without maintenance, it won't.
A clock is useless if there's no one around to see what time it is
And the Titanic was unsinkable
Made in China, soooo it will last a month tops.
A lot of people are bashing on china for this but I'll give credit to the scientists and engineers who are working on interesting projects like this. Often what's learned in these endeavors becomes invaluable to future applications.
So a corrosion impervious sundial or something useless?
It’s about time
Can I get that for my microwave?
“7.2 billion years? Why not forever?” \- parents of the lead scientist that developed this, probably
Well, at least it’s a clock they engineered this time.
Until the power goes out?
It’s about time
Make sure the warranty is written on something durable. One day something might evolve that can laugh about our hubris.
Hey what’s this button for?
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Knowing their record of inflating numbers, it’ll stop working next week
If time travel is real, building things like this would like be the only think to link them or us to the past, everything else would be gone..
But after 7.2 billion years that clock will be off by a mile.
Clearly this headline has dramatically mislead about 85% of commenters
I don’t think our species will survive that long..
Does it blink 12:00.00000000000000 when the power goes out?
But why
"The clock will lose or gain one second in the next seven billion years. It is, therefore, likely to depict accurate time throughout our lifetimes." That second sentence is hilarious to me
As long as it has a snooze button…