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Xairos Newsletter: November 15, 2021
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Xairos Newsletter: November 15, 2021
✍️ Theme of the Week

Lunar Standard Time
Before you can settle into your new moon base, you need to have an accurate moon clock.
Lunar and deep space missions all need accurate time synchronization over very long distances to function properly.
For one, it is key enabler for the planned Cislunar Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) network.
This isn't needed for driving directions (yet), but it is necessary for getting to the moon safely: maneuvers, rendezvous operations and docking; entry, descent, and landing; and surface operations all require accurate position and timing.
Timing is also critical for lunar and deep space navigation and scientific missions, including mapping the gravity of the moon.
So once you are settled in: is one day on the moon 24 hours or 29.5 Earth days?

Last Week's Theme: The Data Traffic Jam

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Can better timing synchronization help reduce carbon emissions?
Consider that synchronization improves the efficiency of data centers reducing their energy consumption, which is estimated to account for between 1 percent to 3.5 percent of the total worldwide carbon emissions.
This was discussed at last week's 2021 OCP Global Summit, where Facebook and NVIDIA claimed that a "recent test showed that making the timekeeping 80x more precise (making any time discrepancies 80x smaller) made a distributed database run 3x faster — an incredible performance boost on the same server hardware, just from keeping more accurate and more reliable time."

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