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Caryn Rogers 🦫 @carynjrogers.bsky.social

I watched Carl Sagan a lot as a kid 🤣

aug 30, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social

IIRC there's this also whole "precise clocks let you measure longitude" thing?

aug 30, 2025, 2:14 pm • 4 0 • view
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Caryn Rogers 🦫 @carynjrogers.bsky.social

yep! marine chronometers made the modern world in important ways also time zones, mostly for railways at first iirc

aug 30, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Squiffy-Marie von Bladet, PhD @vonbladet.bsky.social

Exactly this was behind the quest for a reliable maritime clock, as featured in this hit non-fiction book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitu...

aug 30, 2025, 2:24 pm • 3 0 • view