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Mr_bogey
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FEBRUARY 5
February 5, 1924.
This is the day the Greenwich Time Signal, better known as the pips, was first introduced.
If you have ever listened to BBC radio, you have heard them: six tones before the hour. The first five are short and evenly spaced. The sixth is longer. The important detail is that the start of the final pip marks the exact top of the hour. Not the end. The leading edge. That's some pretty cool design. The pips exist so time can be synchronized by sound, originally tied to clocks at the Royal Observatory, anchored at Greenwich, where the Prime Meridian lives.
Precision in time... Be still my beating heart!
Here is the technical wrinkle that makes it even better. Today the pips are generated from atomic time, but depending on whether you are listening via analogue radio, digital radio, television, or streaming, they may arrive slightly late because of transmission delays. The BBC actually publishes how wrong they are by platform. I love this deeply. It is an honest admission that perfect time exists, and humans experience it with latency. As a physicist, precision is absolutely my thing. As a human, I enjoy that even our most exact systems still have to negotiate reality.
Day 5: post a song that has any kind of ticking, counting, or time reference in it.
February 5, 1924.
This is the day the Greenwich Time Signal, better known as the pips, was first introduced.
If you have ever listened to BBC radio, you have heard them: six tones before the hour. The first five are short and evenly spaced. The sixth is longer. The important detail is that the start of the final pip marks the exact top of the hour. Not the end. The leading edge. That's some pretty cool design. The pips exist so time can be synchronized by sound, originally tied to clocks at the Royal Observatory, anchored at Greenwich, where the Prime Meridian lives.
Precision in time... Be still my beating heart!
Here is the technical wrinkle that makes it even better. Today the pips are generated from atomic time, but depending on whether you are listening via analogue radio, digital radio, television, or streaming, they may arrive slightly late because of transmission delays. The BBC actually publishes how wrong they are by platform. I love this deeply. It is an honest admission that perfect time exists, and humans experience it with latency. As a physicist, precision is absolutely my thing. As a human, I enjoy that even our most exact systems still have to negotiate reality.
Day 5: post a song that has any kind of ticking, counting, or time reference in it.
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Day 4: Post a song from a Disney movie
Mulan - Reflection
IYKYK
Mulan - Reflection
IYKYK
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Day 5: post a song that has any kind of ticking, counting, or time reference in it.
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Day 5: post a song that has any kind of ticking, counting, or time reference in it.
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Day 5: post a song that has any kind of ticking, counting, or time reference in it.
Russians - Sting
Russians - Sting
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Day 5: post a song that has any kind of ticking, counting, or time reference in it.
Great prompt. Soooo many great songs, it's tough to choose. Gonna go a little obscure and pick one where one of my favorite artists pays tribute to the memory of another.
Ben Folds - Late
Great prompt. Soooo many great songs, it's tough to choose. Gonna go a little obscure and pick one where one of my favorite artists pays tribute to the memory of another.
Ben Folds - Late
