Challenger’s resting place
On January 28, 1986, at 11:30, A.M. just one minute after lift off, the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in an explosion. After pieces of the Challenger were examined, they were lowered into their permanent storage area in the Minuteman missile silo at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
This year’s International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust is dedicated to the children – girls and boys who faced sheer terror and evil.
2012 to have leap day and leap second
INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)
SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE
SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
61, Av. de l’Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
e-mail : services.iers@obspm.fr
http:// hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc
Paris, 5 January 2012
Bulletin C 43
To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time
UTC TIME STEP on the 1st of July 2012
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s
The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2012 July 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 34s
from 2012 July 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 35s
Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date.
Daniel GAMBIS
Head
Earth Orientation Center of IERS
Observatoire de Paris, France
January
“More than anything else I am painfully aware that I have no idea what I should do, or what he may ask of me”
Well shit, that doesn’t sound good.
“to scream, faint, dash about in mobs”
So…fabulous orgies, or?
“He had not answered the priest’s question.”
Well, Fuck. Looks like I’ll be spending some time with a catholic priest this year.
Or a Mormon one. Cause they aren’t old at least.
“His lecture - part lecture, part stand-up act - called ‘Spores Illustrated’ helped me understand some of the biology despite myself.”
I’m going to have sex with mycologists and it will involve spores. And we will do spore prints with semen and/or menstrual blood instead of ink.
Well, THIS is perfect:
“A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.” - Weetzie Bat
“II. FAMILY”
WHAT EVEN
“In which a ring of sunlight surrounds the disk of the Moon.”
