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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>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>
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> 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> 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> 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 … Continue reading <\/a>
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