Terrestrial Time : Terrestrial time
Terrestrial Time (TT) is the modern time scale that is used instead of ephemeris time, which is obsolete. TT was introduced by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1991 as the coordinate time scale consistent with the theory of general relativity for an observer on the surface of the Earth. For all practical purposes, it is equal to:TT = TAI +32.184 s
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this rope and crawled along. I was desperate, I knew they'd soon be
the water.html">water.html">water several times, but I got to the barge.html">barge.html">barge.html">barge at last. It was
thirsty--I looked for something to eat; there was nothing but the
boat brought men, one for each barge, and there were sounds of steam.
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barge's edge, so that the sparks and smoke blew away over the water.
mist, like a big.html">big bird flapping its wings; there was a good smell of
took a pitchfork and prodded the straw.html">straw.html">straw. Then I stood up. I couldn't
black beard. I pointed to the fire.html">fire.html">fire and said 'Give me some, brother!'
sat by the fire, and ate black bread and turnips, and drank coffee;
him well--he spoke a dialect from Hungary. He asked me: How I got
looked down at me, sucking his pipe. He was a big man, he lived
the whole thing. When I had done he just grunted. I can see.html">see him now
naked arms. He drew me some water, and I washed and showed him my
on the barge in the mist, with our feet to the fire, smoking; now and
never forget that day. The steamer was like a monster with fiery
the fires were; we couldn't see the bank, but now and then a bluff
paint and canvas that day!" He sighed.
"It was early Spring, and the river was in flood; they were going to
soon as the mist began to clear, the bargeman hid me in the straw.
happened, and I slept in the straw. The next day I lay out on the
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