Submitted by samgarita t3_z5nctu in todayilearned
I get my networks time from NIST for free. Working pretty well on Stratum 1. Hope to upgrade to a GPS unit in the future.
Do they know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? It's 1363, right? Right!?
I mean, NIST does other things too….
Every piece of measurement equipment we use must be NIST traecable otherwise we cannot trust the measurement.
Pretty standard instrument stuff
I too saw that YouTube video
YouTube was really pushing that video the last few days. I watched it last night or earlier today.
Father in law worked at NIST (and it predecessor the Bureau of Standards) for 35 years or something. In radio propagation. Got some cool stories about things like color TV. The first specs brought to the government would have rendered B/W TVs useless, and they said "go back and make black and white, and color TVs work on the same frequencies, it can be done." Also, the first draft for the emergency broadcast system had circuitry inside radios and TVs, until they showed how easy it was to hack, so the system changed, and the system was set up via broadcasters, not the devices.
Sounds like a precursor to the Imperial Bureau of Standards. Where there are no small jobs.
….was a matter of time before this circulated. YouTube’s algorithm works like a charm.
Warehouse 13 would like a word with you.
They're also the nation's timekeeepers and weightkeepers and lengthkeepers. (https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm). IIRC if you think your 1kg weight is sus, you can ask NIST for the reference 1kg weight and weigh your 1kg against NIST's 1kg, similarly for lengths. It's NIST's job to ensure their 1kg stays as 1kg and does not lose weight due to any sort of erosion.
If you’re responding directly to the OP then why are you just spouting what you know they already saw in the video?
Cause the rest of us prolly didn't see the video. I sure didn't. But I mean, I would. Tho its a lil odd when you make a comment and get a reply for the benefit of others, and not really a response to yourself. This just kinda seems like the post version of that, lol.
>Do they know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop
If industry needs to know this standard, NIST can find out! Sounds like a cool job too.
NIST is tasked with helping keep the US economy healthy and growing. For example, they help define the Inch, which is essential in building when carpenters, plumbers, electricians, architects etc. all need to trust that they are all working with the same basic understandings. When different professions have different standards, they can't really work well together.
NIST also has done significant work with fire fighting on the importance of controlling flow paths, optimal fire attack strategies, etc.
I am glad when people add info in the comments in a place called Today I Learned, because I am actually here to learn things.
How about you?
> Pretty standard instrument stuff
Bud-um Tiss!
> Got some cool stories about things like color TV. The first specs brought to the government would have rendered B/W TVs useless, and they said "go back and make black and white, and color TVs work on the same frequencies, it can be done.
B&W TVs being able to use the color signal, and later mono TVs being able to use the stereo signal was always such a cool bit of engineering.
I love that the audio method especially: an L+R signal and then an L-R signal that the stereo TVs use to create L and R signals through addition for L and inversion and then addition for R.
Sorry if I offended anybody I was just being lazy. LOLz, you get older in the tooth and it's hard to remember what rabbit holes you've been down. I recommend the Veritassium channel if anyone's interested in weird science bits. (no affiliation just a fan)
Dug up the link I referred if anyone's interested. There's even a reference they sell for the common diet. Weird but interesting stuff. Bests~
I used to live across the street from NIST. They have a small nuclear reactor there, I think to make Cesium for atomic clocks. Anyway, about 6 or 7 years ago they cataloged their basement and found so much equipment that had been developed there but was unlabeled that they put out a call to former and retired employees to please come help them figure it out.
Hey I feel ya, plus sometimes you just might not realize how you come across. Mix that with being annoyed or something and it's easy to come across the wrong way on reddit. Though I gotta be honest, when I saw your comment I didn't think it was gonna even be downvoted lol, I certainly didn't downvote you. Thanks for the link!
The other day I did something kinda like that, but worse actually and didn't realize in the moment I was actually being an ass. Shit happens. That's what my mom always told me, haha.
Consider2SidesPeace t1_ixx2qu0 wrote
Hey OP! I saw that same video on YouTube today. Peanut butter that's over $1k for a jar. But what you're paying for is the scientific data they have gained and the precise way it's mixed. It's not sold to be edible it's sold to be a referance of peanut butter.
Why buy this? For 1k$? It's precisely made and uniform. Therefore if you have a machine line that has detectors on it for certain amounts of fat and sugars and other ingredients you test the line with this.
Ed. Sorry was being lazy. Link below to REF vid.