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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Would this affect our lives on Earth?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Most likely indirectly, like how GPS has to account for satellites not matching the passage of time on earth due to relatively.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

You can now be more accurately late for work. Or your coffee is more accurately taking a long time to come out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Relativistically.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If they can predict earthquakes and eruptions more accurately, as suggested in the article, then yes for all the people who don’t die.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I better not have to buy a new watch because of this.