Navy Astronaut Mark Kelly's space worn CONA Breitling auction begins...

[xj220]

I find this an interesting sociological trait we have - to ascribe value to an inanimate object based on someplace it has been before we owned it. It's as if by possessing it, our minds believe that somehow we too have been where it has been. It's an odd kind of delusional behavior.

In all honesty, if I was some super famous person (assuming I wasn't loaded to begin with), I'd buy tons of stuff, wear it once during something and then sell it on ebay to make beaucoup bucks. You know there's going to be people out there who will buy it. The key will be not to flood the market and drive down value. "Here's the watch I wore when I took a shit in the back of a P-3 while on a training mission off the coast..."

 

[HAL Pilot]

Now that is probably the best argument against buying it. I bet Speedmasters that went to the moon sitting in museums today would probably run if you wound them up. Big investment for something that may or may not last a lifetime.

And if they didn't run after you wound them up, being a automatic/mechanical movement, any good watchmaker could fix them.

 

[scoolbubba]

Doesn't time work differently in space? Think I read that on a recent Cracked.com article. It's where I get 90% of my knowledges.

 

[yakboyslim]

Doesn't time work differently in space? Think I read that on a recent Cracked.com article. It's where I get 90% of my knowledges.

I had to do all the Lorenz transformations and all that special relativity crap in physics courses. It never makes sense. Time makes no sense, it's a good thing we all move so slow (in the relativistic sense), ETA's would be a lot harder if you had to include the Lorentz factor in everything.

 

[MasterBates]

Basically, in non nerd terms, the watch, in space will appear to have run slow when brought back to earth, even though there is nothing wrong with it.

 

[jmcquate]

I thought that was the point of Zulu, yes? Anyhow, I find this an interesting sociological trait we have - to ascribe value to an inanimate object based on someplace it has been before we owned it. It's as if by possessing it, our minds believe that somehow we too have been where it has been. It's an odd kind of delusional behavior.

Reminds me of this:

Brett

They used Mission Elapsed Time (MET), which is a flexible time zone based on the launch time of the shuttle mission.

 

[yakboyslim]

Basically, in non nerd terms, the watch, in space will appear to have run slow when brought back to earth, even though there is nothing wrong with it.

And if the space-watch is traveling very fast the space-watch will look slow from earth, but in space the earth-watch will look slow. Wrap your brain around that one.

 

[MasterBates]

It's not hard. You are always traveling through time, space or a combination of the both. Relative to Earth/SOL, we are moving very slow through space, so it's mostly time. Go damn near the speed of light, and time slows down, even though it's perceived as normal where you are.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Doesn't time work differently in space? Think I read that on a recent Cracked.com article. It's where I get 90% of my knowledges.

I think I found my new signature.

 

[EODDave]

OK someone else hurry and bid. I really dont have 33K to blow on a watch.

 

[helolumpy]

what time do you set your watch to if you're in space? is there some sort of uber-zulu? or do you have to just keep changing it every three to five minutes?

I realize you were joking, but duing the Falklands conflict, the Royal Navy kept all their clocks on London time (zulu) even though they were three time zones ahead.
That would be like deploying from Norfolk and keeping your clock set to Eastern time even though you were in the Med.

But to your point, what time do Astronauts set thier clock to? They leave from Canaveral (Eastern Time) but Mission Control is In Houston (Central Time). Or do they all work on zulu time?

 

[jmcquate]

I realize you were joking, but duing the Falklands conflict, the Royal Navy kept all their clocks on London time (zulu) even though they were three time zones ahead.
That would be like deploying from Norfolk and keeping your clock set to Eastern time even though you were in the Med.

But to your point, what time do Astronauts set thier clock to? They leave from Canaveral (Eastern Time) but Mission Control is In Houston (Central Time). Or do they all work on zulu time?

STS used Mission Elapsed Time (MET). ISS uses Zulu.

 

[helolumpy]

I started surfing looking to find my own answer and learned they use Universal Time which comes from the Naval Observatory... So I guess you could say that Astronauts are on "Navy Time"!

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/international-time-scales-and-the-b.i.p.m

 

[insanebikerboy]

[quote="MasterBates, post: 684651, member: 10106"Go damn near the speed of light, and time slows down, even though it's perceived as normal where you are.[/quote]

It slows down for someone looking from the outside in, not for the person at that speed. Hence the "relative" part of "relativity!"

 

[MIDNJAC]

STS used Mission Elapsed Time (MET). ISS uses Zulu.

Pretty sure I'd be the guy to forget to press start on the stopwatch while I was on the launch pad....