Time and Space Cointest

[+mrjiffy]

Ok, thought I would post a cointest for all those on the forums tonight. The prize will be one Time and Space geocoin to the winner (the one with the Blue center and Orange Glitter outer ring). I am having some troubles tonight with my picture hosting service, so no picture sorry. Its trackable and unactivated.

 

Starting now, all you need to do to enter is post a fact about Time and/or Space to participate. It can be anything, as long as it has at least some element of factual matter within the post. Maximum of three posts (entries) for each Groundspeak member to give everyone a chance. I wll accept posts starting from now until 10PM Eastern Standard Time, at which time I will choose a winner using a random number generator to match someones post under this thread. Thats two hours from the time I made this post.

 

Good luck and have fun.

 

MRJIFFY

Edited May 20, 2008 by mrjiffy

[+Tschakko]

I´ll quote a famous person:

Time is relative

 

Thx for the cointest, I really like that coin

[+gardengorilla]

The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.

 

Hmmm...wonder what kind of experiments they got to do?

 

Thanks for the cointest!

[+Lazer]

According to the dictionary:

 

Time is a noun and is defined as:

 

The system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.

[+surteb]

Thanks for the cointest!

 

The sun is four and a half thousand million years old and in 6 thousand million years or so years, it is predicted that it will finally reach the end of its life.

[+Tschakko]

There are different timezones all over the world, right now here it is about 2.00 am

This is a list of abbreviations of the different timezones :

 

Abbreviation Full name Location Time zone

A Alpha Time Zone Military UTC + 1 hour

ACDT Australian Central Daylight Time Australia UTC + 10:30 hours

ACST Australian Central Standard Time Australia UTC + 9:30 hours

ADT Atlantic Daylight Time North America UTC - 3 hours

AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time or Australian Eastern Summer Time Australia UTC + 11 hours

AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time Australia UTC + 10 hours

AKDT Alaska Daylight Time North America UTC - 8 hours

AKST Alaska Standard Time North America UTC - 9 hours

AST Atlantic Standard Time North America UTC - 4 hours

AWDT Australian Western Daylight Time Australia UTC + 9 hours

AWST Australian Western Standard Time Australia UTC + 8 hours

B Bravo Time Zone Military UTC + 2 hours

BST British Summer Time Europe UTC + 1 hour

C Charlie Time Zone Military UTC + 3 hours

CDT Central Daylight Time Australia UTC + 10:30 hours

CDT Central Daylight Time North America UTC - 5 hours

CEDT Central European Daylight Time Europe UTC + 2 hours

CEST Central European Summer Time Europe UTC + 2 hours

CET Central European Time Europe UTC + 1 hour

CST Central Summer Time Australia UTC + 10:30 hours

CST Central Standard Time Australia UTC + 9:30 hours

CST Central Standard Time North America UTC - 6 hours

CXT Christmas Island Time Australia UTC + 7 hours

D Delta Time Zone Military UTC + 4 hours

E Echo Time Zone Military UTC + 5 hours

EDT Eastern Daylight Time Australia UTC + 11 hours

EDT Eastern Daylight Time North America UTC - 4 hours

EEDT Eastern European Daylight Time Europe UTC + 3 hours

EEST Eastern European Summer Time Europe UTC + 3 hours

EET Eastern European Time Europe UTC + 2 hours

EST Eastern Summer Time Australia UTC + 11 hours

EST Eastern Standard Time Australia UTC + 10 hours

EST Eastern Standard Time North America UTC - 5 hours

F Foxtrot Time Zone Military UTC + 6 hours

G Golf Time Zone Military UTC + 7 hours

GMT Greenwich Mean Time Europe UTC

H Hotel Time Zone Military UTC + 8 hours

HAA Heure Avancée de l'Atlantique North America UTC - 3 hours

HAC Heure Avancée du Centre North America UTC - 5 hours

HADT Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time North America UTC - 9 hours

HAE Heure Avancée de l'Est North America UTC - 4 hours

HAP Heure Avancée du Pacifique North America UTC - 7 hours

HAR Heure Avancée des Rocheuses North America UTC - 6 hours

HAST Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time North America UTC - 10 hours

HAT Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve North America UTC - 2:30 hours

HAY Heure Avancée du Yukon North America UTC - 8 hours

HNA Heure Normale de l'Atlantique North America UTC - 4 hours

HNC Heure Normale du Centre North America UTC - 6 hours

HNE Heure Normale de l'Est North America UTC - 5 hours

HNP Heure Normale du Pacifique North America UTC - 8 hours

HNR Heure Normale des Rocheuses North America UTC - 7 hours

HNT Heure Normale de Terre-Neuve North America UTC - 3:30 hours

HNY Heure Normale du Yukon North America UTC - 9 hours

I India Time Zone Military UTC + 9 hours

IST Irish Summer Time Europe UTC + 1 hour

K Kilo Time Zone Military UTC + 10 hours

L Lima Time Zone Military UTC + 11 hours

M Mike Time Zone Military UTC + 12 hours

MDT Mountain Daylight Time North America UTC - 6 hours

MESZ Mitteleuroäische Sommerzeit Europe UTC + 2 hours

MEZ Mitteleuropäische Zeit Europe UTC + 1 hour

MSD Moscow Daylight Time Europe UTC + 4 hours

MSK Moscow Standard Time Europe UTC + 3 hours

MST Mountain Standard Time North America UTC - 7 hours

N November Time Zone Military UTC - 1 hour

NDT Newfoundland Daylight Time North America UTC - 2:30 hours

NFT Norfolk (Island) Time Australia UTC + 11:30 hours

NST Newfoundland Standard Time North America UTC - 3:30 hours

O Oscar Time Zone Military UTC - 2 hours

P Papa Time Zone Military UTC - 3 hours

PDT Pacific Daylight Time North America UTC - 7 hours

PST Pacific Standard Time North America UTC - 8 hours

Q Quebec Time Zone Military UTC - 4 hours

R Romeo Time Zone Military UTC - 5 hours

S Sierra Time Zone Military UTC - 6 hours

T Tango Time Zone Military UTC - 7 hours

U Uniform Time Zone Military UTC - 8 hours

UTC Coordinated Universal Time Europe UTC

V Victor Time Zone Military UTC - 9 hours

W Whiskey Time Zone Military UTC - 10 hours

WDT Western Daylight Time Australia UTC + 9 hours

WEDT Western European Daylight Time Europe UTC + 1 hour

WEST Western European Summer Time Europe UTC + 1 hour

WET Western European Time Europe UTC

WST Western Summer Time Australia UTC + 9 hours

WST Western Standard Time Australia UTC + 8 hours

X X-ray Time Zone Military UTC - 11 hours

Y Yankee Time Zone Military UTC - 12 hours

Z Zulu Time Zone Military UTC

[+BrierPatch]

Time & Space:

There is so much space to cache and so little Time!

Theory of relativity informs us that time and space (The where and when) are relative to gravity and movement. I can never seem to defy gravity with movement and cover enough space in the least amount of time to reach all the caches that are planned. perhaps if I had an H.G well's time machine I would be FTF on all the caches.

Alas I will have to use my limited time to cover as many caches as soon as possible if not possibly sooner!

[+surteb]

If you put Saturn in water it would float.

[+BrierPatch]

Time & Space:

There is so much space to cache and so little Time!

Theory of relativity informs us that time and space (The where and when) are relative to gravity and movement. I can never seem to defy gravity with movement and cover enough space in the least amount of time to reach all the caches that are planned. perhaps if I had an H.G well's time machine I would be FTF on all the caches.

Alas I will have to use my limited time to cover as many caches as soon as possible if not possibly sooner!

[+surteb]

 

This composite image of the Messier 81 (M81) galaxy shows what astronomers call a "grand design" spiral galaxy, where each of its arms curls all the way down into its center. Located about 12 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation, M81 is among the brightest of the galaxies visible by telescope from Earth.

[+Tschakko]

Another spacefact before I gotta go to bed, my third and last one :

 

Our universe is still expanding!

 

 

I have fun attending this cointest I am a huge fan of SciFi, this is just my topic

 

Now I am off, dreaming to win this cointest

 

P.S. I could enter much mor detailed facts, if it only were in German language

Edited May 20, 2008 by Tschakko

[+ThePetersTrio]

Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961, became the first human being in space and was the first to orbit the Earth.

 

Thanks for the cointest.

[+bearly_sane]

M45 also called the Pleiades is where the emblem for the Subaru cars was drawn from. It is also referred to as the Seven Sisters although most people only see 6 stars. This object is commonly mistaken for the dippers.

[+ThePetersTrio]

Laika (from the Russian Лайка, a breed of dog, literally meaning, "Barker" or "Howler") was a Russian space dog (c. 1954–1957) that became the first earthling to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray, originally named Kudryavka (Russian: кудрявка, literally meaning, "Little Curly-Haired One"), underwent training with two other dogs, and was eventually chosen as the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into space on November 3, 1957.

 

Laika died a few hours after launch from stress and overheating, probably due to a malfunction in the thermal control system. The true cause of her death was not made public until decades after the flight.

 

Although Laika did not survive the trip, the experiment proved that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness. It paved the way for human spaceflight and provided scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.

 

[+BrierPatch]

I just remembered!

 

Because [E=MC squared] We would need to know the reletive mass of the coin in question so that we can calculate how it would effect the amount of space we have to cover in the limited amount of time.

 

Now if it had no mass it would be timeless.

[paganfrog]

The biggest objection to the theory of time travel is that if it were to become possible, we would already have experienced the effects of the alteration of memorable events in our history.....but the main trouble with that theory however is that when events in our past change, so does our perception and therefore our memories of those events change also. (assuming we were existing within a type 2 universe)

Basically, if that were true, then time travel could be happening to us on a regular basis and we would remain oblivious as our past reality would contently remain in a flux state.

Theoretically I could have already won this cointest, and written this from the future!

 

Not 100% fact, but 100% recognized quantum theory.

For 100% fact, it is 0129hrs GMT when I wrote this.

[+BrierPatch]

Oh no! caught by my wife In a cointest!

 

She is helping me reduce my mass by taking my Oreos........

[+Frank n Beck]

The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova.

 

Thanks for the cointest!!

[+BrierPatch]

Paganfrog:

I get it I actually won this contest and you have gone back and changed all our perceprions of it, so that now I can't remember I did. Your clever!

[+Frank n Beck]

If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.

 

Thanks for the cointest!!!!!!!!!!

[+joranda]

Space the final frontier.

[+BrierPatch]

If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.

 

Thanks for the cointest!!!!!!!!!!

 

IF I sang in space you would be thankful you could not hear me!

[+BrierPatch]

Space the final frontier.

 

To Boldly place chaches where none have been placed before

To explore strange new forrest's

To be bitten by strange new bugs

[+Butterfly_lady]

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

Le Corbusier

 

Space - to be (oneself - to spread one's wings)

Light - to see clearly (not just physically)

Order - to know oneself (and where one stands in relation to all)

[+Mr.Explorer3]

Here is the next USA mission into space.

 

Date: May 31

Mission: STS-124

Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery

Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A

Launch Time: 5:02 p.m. EDT

Description: Space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124 will transport the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module - Pressurized Module (JEM-PM) and the Japanese Remote Manipulator System (JEM-RMS) to the International Space Station.

[+Terrier Team]

You can thank the space race with russia for the tubes that our toothpaste comes in.

[SCYoli]

VOYAGER NCC 74656

"FOR I DIPT INTO THE FUTURE, FAR AS THE HUMAN EYE COULD SEE, SAW THE VISION OF THE WORLD, AND ALL THE WONDER THAT WOULD BE."

 

Space the place between my hubby's ears.....

[acadiahiker]

As we all learned in grade school: the Sun is 93 million miles away.

[+Terrier Team]

The flag that they placed on the moon notice how it looks like it's waving in the wind. As you know space has no atmosphere so how could that be?

 

I'm perty sure the flag was made out of plastic and bent to look like it's waving in the wind

[+Team TeeKay]

Believe it or not; Canada has a space program and their mandate is as follows:

 

To promote the peaceful use and development of space, to advance the knowledge of space through science and to ensure that space science and technology provide social and economic benefits for Canadians.

 

Troy

[+GATOULIS]

Space!!! As you all know, the planets in our solar system got their names from the ancient Greek gods! Zeus, was named like that from the ancient Greeks, because it was the biggest planet! Mars, because its color was red, the color of war! Afrodite....because it was beautiful, Poseidon because it is blue....

 

Of course, according to historians, planets were "discovered" much later, but.....is that what really happent???

 

Suturn, is Kronos in Greek!

As you all know, it was rings around him! scientists examin them and said that they are left overs, from older satelite planets or Saturn, that were destroyed - turned into pieces, because of the great powers, forces of the big planet Kronos!

 

But why ancient Greeks named that planet after the father of Ancient Greek Gods?? Why???

 

Kronos was also a great god! his father was Ouranos (sky) and his mother was Gaia (earth). He managed overthrow his father, and he bacame the ruller of the universe, but he was afraid that he would probably had the same end! So, he started eating his children! who were his children??? some of the ancient Greek gods! His last child was Zeus! Her mother, managed to cheat Kronos, and instead of Zeus, she gave him a rock! kronos was sure that Zeus was in his stomach, but he was hiden in Crete island! when he became a man, he managed to take the throne from his father Kronos, and to free his brothers and sisters from Kronos belly! One of them was Zeus later wife, Hera!

 

Of course, Egyptians new a lot about astronomy, Messopotamian civilazations knew a lot, and Mayas in Southern America too! So... who actually discover the planets in our solar system????

[acadiahiker]

The official TIME of sunrise this morning in my home town was 4:56---And it get worse! For two weeks in June, official sunrise is 4:43

[Theotokos]

Almost all of the Oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere has been produced by living organisms. Oxygen accounts for 21% of our atmosphere, with Nitrogen making up 78%, and a mixture of other gases composing the remaining 1%. Oxygen only occurs as a minor constituent in the atmospheres of other planets in our Solar System.

[+geocachingdragon]

Star wars was released 25 May 1977

[Theotokos]

It currently takes radio signals approximately 35 minutes to get from the Galileo spacecraft to Earth. Galileo, in orbit around Jupiter, is over 635 million kilometers (about 395 million miles) from Earth.

[+NeverSummer]

Similar things have been said, but I'll add my own clarification...

 

Time is an invention. It only exists because we, as humans, have decided to make it so.

 

How will you spend your "Time"?

[acadiahiker]

Sputnik, the first artifical satelite, was launched by Russia on Oct.4,1957.

[+PengoFamily]

Interesting facts about space:

 

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.

[+PengoFamily]

2nd interesting fact about space:

 

If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all

[+PengoFamily]

3rd interesting fact about space:

 

If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.

 

Thanks for the cointest!!

[dimkasmir]

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

[Theotokos]

Due to the natural curvature of space, the shortest path between any two objects is never a straight line, but a curved line called a geodesic. An example of this is that we can see stars that are located in a straight line behind the sun appearing near the edge of the sun. This occurs because the strong gravitational effect of the sun curves space in such a way that the shortest distance for light to travel is the geodesic path curved around the edge of the sun. An earth-based analogy is that aeroplane flight paths follow geodesic paths instead of straight lines around the curved earth surface to save both time and fuel. Bernhard Riemann defined space as a 'topological manifold of an arbitrary number of dimensions' in 1854, unlike our perception of space in 3 (straight) dimensions. This geometry is a fundamental part of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

[+North Fork Seeker]

The crescent moon appears 1 To 5 days after the new moon.

[RedShoesGirl]

string theory is the first theory of everything, unifying all we know about physics — time, space, gravity etc. — and quantum mechanics. in effect bridging the gap between the two. there are 11 dimensions and an infinite amount of parallel universes.

 

rsg

Edited May 20, 2008 by RedShoesGirl

[+GATOULIS]

TIME.... Well, according to a theory, a time travel is very dangerous!

Why?

 

there are theories saying that you can not change history, but what about if you can? If you go back to time, find someone, who is baby at that time, but I know that when he grow up, he will be the worst person, maybe someone who is going to be responsible for the deaths of millions, or someone who started a great war!!

If I go back in time, when he is a baby or a child and.... what would happen????? Will I create a parallel univesre?, will I make things worse? Will I be the reason of destroying everythin in the future, where for me is...today????

 

And....if I go back in time, and meet myself....isn't that anorthdox??? 2 persons that are actually one, in the same universe......

 

And....at last, if I go back in time, and accidently kill my grandfather when he is young and not married.....then my father will never exist, so I will never exist, so....how I went back in time?????????

 

Did I confused you????

 

Well... if time travells exist, can someone bring me a mount10bike geocoin, when they were not so famous????

[+North Fork Seeker]

The rings of saturn are made up of pieces of ice billions and billions of them.

 

 

THANKS FOR THE COINTEST

Edited May 20, 2008 by North Fork Seekers

[+derschlings]

Light travels about 0.98357106 feet (just a rough estimation ) in just 1 nanosecond.

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doesn't seem quite so fast now does it?

[dimkasmir]

Mongolia once used to have 3 time zones- now it uses one time zone UTC/GMT + 08:00.

[+dhenninger]

The atomic clocks on board the satellites in the GPS system are accurate to within a few nanoseconds of each other.

 

The combination of the effects of general relativity and special relativity have cause the GPS satellite clocks to gain 38 microseconds a day, which unless accounted for, would make the GPS system almost useless.

 

So time is VERY important to finding little boxes in the woods

[+Fishnic]

marty mcfly had to drive his delorean time machine under a wire suspended across a street as lightning struck the clock tower in order to generate the 1.21 jiggawatts of pwer necesary to power the flux capacitor