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If you’re on terra firma, it’s pretty obvious when you need to grab your make-out partner. But how, asks Slate’s Explainer, do you know when to celebrate “when you’re hurtling through time zones at 17,500 miles per hour?”<\/p>\nIf you’re on terra firma, it’s pretty obvious when you need to grab your make-out partner. But how, asks Slate’s Explainer, do you know when to celebrate “when you’re hurtling through time zones at 17,500 miles per hour?”<\/p>\n
The obvious answer is something like: “you don’t pick a single<\/i> moment, you celebrate once over each of the 30 different time zones in an all-day, space beer<\/a> kegger.<\/p>\n The actual answer is a little less exciting. The ISS astronauts set their clocks to Coordinated Universal Time, which is the same thing as Greenwich Mean Time, just with a cooler name. That means they were debating if it’s “two thousand and ten” or “twenty ten” at the same time Londoners were doing so back here on Earth.<\/p>\n But they still got some<\/i> time zone-hopping fun: the ISS crew celebrated New Years with mission controllers in Moscow and Houston when the clock struck midnight in those cities. [Slate’s Explainer<\/a>]<\/p>\n If you’re on terra firma, it’s pretty obvious when you need to grab your make-out partner. But how, asks Slate’s Explainer, do you know when to celebrate “when you’re hurtling through time zones at 17,500 miles per hour?” The obvious answer is something like: “you don’t pick a single moment, you celebrate once over each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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