Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan 188
angry tapir writes "The problems at Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear plant have had an unexpected impact on the country's ability to keep time: a transmitter that sends the national time signal to many thousands of clocks and watches has been forced offline making the timepieces a little less reliable than usual."
Caesium clock versus wild Caesium (Score:4, Funny)
Very sorry for being 28 picoseconds late! The radioactive Caesium in the air put out my atomic clock
Thanks for getting my hopes up... (Score:2, Funny)
"Nuclear Crisis Stopped" is not a good way to lead off a story on Japan.
My short attention span plays horrible games with me.
Re:Caesium clock versus wild Caesium (Score:3, Funny)
Very sorry for being 28 picoseconds late!
Only 28 psecs? Curses! That's still not enough to let us fool your millisecond trading systems.
Igor, it is necessary to calibrate our earthquake generators a second time.
Yes, let us triple the taco fuel!
Re:This site has really jumped the shark (Score:0, Funny)
Sadly yes. The site does tend to more fluff, slashvertising, idle shit and biased politics articles than anything really interesting. I'm betting that by 2012 we'll have videos of cats on here.
Perhaps the new dysfunctional slashdot design should've clued most of us in that we should be leaving for something new.
O hai thar! Welcome to Catdot.org!
Re:This site has really jumped the shark (Score:5, Funny)
It's sharks all the way up.
Re:Won't somebody think of the censors! (Score:2, Funny)
And don't get me started on those times when the Bart and Lisa are late for school!
Yes! We have to ban every episode showing schools. Many Japanese children don't even have a school anymore!
Bob Marley again... (Score:3, Funny)
I thought we should have no fear for atomic energy, mon, cause they could not stop de time!
Re:This site has really jumped the shark (Score:5, Funny)
I'm betting that by 2012 we'll have videos of cats on here.
Or photos of CAT 5s, at least.