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15 08 2006 John Victor Cooper

G.M.T. (Greenwich Mean Time)

Greenwich Observatory.

According to my watch this was only 2 seconds out.


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1moremile12-Sep-2006 22:22
Did you let them know it was faulty so they could jump right on a repair job? Not a second to lose.
John Cooper12-Sep-2006 22:14
Explanation is too sensitive to publish here, sent by secure comms.
Dave Beedon12-Sep-2006 19:29
The second hand stopped briefly every time it advanced to the "next second." However, upon reaching the top of the dial ("12"), it stopped for twice as long as elsewhere. Perhaps I WAS put in a trance, but my memory of this odd behavior is vivid. Trust me.
John Cooper24-Aug-2006 09:33
Dave, possibly you misunderstand the concept of a "second" hand.
They move 6 degrees, then stop for one second, then move again.
They tend to do this forever, until some external influence changes the pattern.
It is possible to enter into a form of trance, if you stare at the hand doing this long enough. I had lots of practise at this in the very distant past when I was working ?
Dave Beedon24-Aug-2006 07:26
Seeing this reminds me of many public clocks of Germany in the 1970s: their second hands always stopped for one second upon reaching the end of a minute. To this day I am baffled by this. Why did the hand stop for a second before beginning to register the next minute?
John Cooper18-Aug-2006 08:06
I get a lot of those magnetic anomalys in my fingers Dave.
I would say just over 3 feet diameter.
Dave Beedon18-Aug-2006 01:23
A magnetic anomaly in Renton caused an extra "p" to be entered even though I never touched that key.
Dave Beedon18-Aug-2006 01:22
This appears top be about 2.5 feet in diameter.
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