[ntp:questions] DUT1 frolics
Brian Garrett
mgy1912 at cox.net
Thu Jan 11 19:32:26 UTC 2007
<shoppa at trailing-edge.com> wrote in message
news:1168539410.021721.307030 at p59g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Brian Garrett wrote:
> > <shoppa at trailing-edge.com> wrote in message
> > news:1168449737.067356.215990 at p59g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> > > Want me to fly over to Germany and get the Earth Rotation Service back
> > > on the ball?
> >
> > You'd better have good cell phone connectivity, 'cause the IERS is in
Paris
> > ;-)
>
> That's what I thought too, but then I went to iers.org and found out
> that they rotate the earth from Germany now. Or at least the Central
> Bureau is in Frankfurt.
>
> Tim.
>
I got fooled by the .fr domain on their bulletins. It looks from the
website like they've got offices all over the place.
Oh, well. Since when do Parisians need a scientific agency to prove that
the world revolves around them? :)
<hides>
Brian
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