@πάνταῥεῖ they are technically near feral because they aren't really domesticated yet. That will probably change over the next couple thousand years or so
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog if I was one of the university's biologists I'd trap a few and see if albinism is present at unusually high rates in the university squirrels
Yeah, the exact myth is if you see an "albino squirrel". But there are non-albino squirrels with white fur, that usually hang out around the computer science building.
A radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC) is a clock that is automatically synchronized by a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock. Such a clock may be synchronized to the time sent by a single transmitter, such as many national or regional time transmitters, or may use multiple transmitters, like the Global Positioning System. Such systems may be used to automatically set clocks or for any purpose where accurate time is needed.
One common style of radio-controlled clock uses time signals transmitted by dedicated terrestrial longwave...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I have one on my office wall. The 'two hands' analogue display indcates time, time remaining until [something], at a glance, and from any angle. If I need to know how much time is left before Anne gets home, I glance at the wall clock, not the time display on my taskbar.
I have one with a fake pendulum mechanism: it uses a quartz crystal to keep time, but also has a magnet underneath that repeatedly changes polarity to keep a pendulum swinging.
@Fabby While the Americans could just put up 60 Hz grid frequency clocks in their train stations and be done with it, Europeans were stuck with wind-up clocks due to their 50 Hz frequency. Hence the plot of Hugo.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Well, I suppose that you could describe the system as atomic clocks with a remote display unit. Also, a shyster could point out that the clock was made up of atoms: hydrogen and carbon in the plastic case, silicon in the crystal and chip, copper wiring etc.
I would give up Stack Exchange if I only had something else to fill my time. I would find something else to fill my time if I can only give up Stack Exchange.
If I took all the time I spent mindlessly reloading question lists to look for something interesting and put that into something productive, I could probably retire right about now.