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  • Is it just me or.....?

    Do armenians not get enough credit? It seems to me that everytime there is something in the american media about an armenian man or woman doing something good, they never mention that he/she is armenian, yet they emphasize, for example, on the armenian identity of a criminal. This story is just another case of an armenian man doing something that is quite remarkable, yet no mention of him being armenian, and we actually get the sense that he is "pure" American, if that term even makes sense.

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    Watchmaker With Time to Lose

    Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory Web Site
    January 08, 2004

    Garo Anserlian, master watch and clockmaker

    They said it couldn't be done. But in the sleepy little town of
    Montrose, California, nestled in the hills surrounding JPL, master
    watchmaker Garo Anserlian of Executive Jewelers is perfecting
    a timepiece for hundreds of Earthlings bound to Mars' irregular
    day. Past the glass cases of what looks like an ordinary jewelry
    store is a workshop where watches are losing 39 minutes a day.

    Rover controllers have to monitor Spirit (and soon, Opportunity)
    all the time; this doesn't just mean 24 hours a day " it means 24
    hours, 39 minutes a day. The martian day is longer than Earth's,
    but this minimal variance can amount to physical and mental fatigue. Every day, team members are reporting to work 39 minutes later than the previous day.

    "Everything on this mission is based on local solar time on Mars," said Julie Townsend, Mars Exploration Rover avionics systems engineer. "From home, during the mission practice tests, it was very difficult to constantly translate Earth time to Mars time."

    Townsend and her co-worker Scott Doudrick, a systems engineer on the project, set out to find a solution for this otherwordly problem. The pair began to ask watchmakers to tackle the challenge but each one turned them away, saying that it couldn't be done unless they placed a large order (10,000 plus) for quartz-controlled watches; they insisted that attempting to convert mechanical watches was not possible.

    A neighborhood store located on a strip of distinct specialty
    shops "not a chain store in sight " Garo's workshop is far from a
    cookie-cutter assembly line. Tables covered with disassembled watches and clocks seem to mirror the intent watchmaker's mind; taking things apart and fixing them is, for him, second nature.

    "When I do something I like to know the maximum about it," he
    stressed. "This is not just a hobby, it is my career."

    A man who found his passion at the age of eight, an underling to
    his father, now guides his own young apprentice, nine-year-old son, David. Clearly enamored of his father, David relayed his own novice clock-making prowess and declared that he would one day take over the store. When he does inherit the business, he will have benefited from his father's finely honed skills, acquired under master watch and clockmakers in Switzerland and Germany.

    Garo acknowledged that the Mars watch request is the strangest he has ever received. It took him about two months to design, fine-tune and streamline the process that would keep the watch on Mars time.

    "Since I was a young child I've put my heart into making very precise time pieces, now I was being asked to create a watch that was slow on purpose " it was going to be a challenge if it was even possible," Garo said. "I spent more than $1,000 trying to figure this out "damaging watches, trying different parts, just searching for a way."

    Watchmaking is a careful process that involves very small parts and wheels. In order to make the watches useful to the Mars Exploration Rover team, Garo had to physically attach additional specific lead weights thus precisely altering the movement of the wheels and hands on certain existing famous-maker wristwatches. Working on the 21-jeweled self-winding mechanical wristwatches was sometimes frustrating.

    "At one point my helpers and I looked at each other and said 'forget it, we're wasting time and money.'" But Townsend and Doudrick wouldn't let him quit. The two came by his shop every week, assuring him that his highly anticipated watches would be a valuable asset to the team.

    Garo finished Doudrick's watch first and after initial testing,
    discovered that it was off by no more than ten seconds in 24 hours Earth time " an amazingly accurate feat for an entirely mechanical watch. Now, when the store is fully staffed, the experts can retrofit and thus create about ten watches per day. After he accommodates all rover team members who wish to own a custom-made Mars watch, he will market his patented rarity to the public.

    Garo watched with million of others as mission control described
    Spirit's near-perfect landing. But his connection to the mission
    was personal.

    "I felt proud; I got goosebumps," he said. "I saw that some of them had two watches on and I thought, one of them was mine! I was proud as an American that it landed and secondly that my watches will be used."

    Used, indeed, by a team of scientists and engineers who looked to a truly old world craft for a solution to a very modern problem. And like the rover team, that faced countless challenges and criticism, Garo gets to say, "I told you so" to those who said it couldn't be done.

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    Baron, I've come to terms with the media a long time ago. It is not an honest purveyor of information.
    Achkerov kute.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Anonymouse Baron, I've come to terms with the media a long time ago. It is not an honest purveyor of information.
      And it pisses me off.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Baron Dants And it pisses me off.
        Me too!

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        • #5
          Well, don't listen to the media, and you won't get pissed off. Get your news from alternative media, not what's mainstream and most likely owned by the 6 Jewish CEOs, oops I'm being "anti-Semetic".
          Achkerov kute.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Anonymouse Well, don't listen to the media, and you won't get pissed off. Get your news from alternative media, not what's mainstream and most likely owned by the 6 Jewish CEOs, oops I'm being "anti-Semetic".
            Yea, I get most of my news off the net now, from different sources, while still following the mainstream media, just to compare.

            As for the jewish CEOs, it is best not to talk about them, because you know, the Jews have had a Holocaust. Thank you.

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            • #7
              baron you mean to tell me that you didn't know about this?

              everyone in pasadena knew it. Infact it was in the Star News and it said local armenian-american helping NASA be on time.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Anonymouse Well, don't listen to the media, and you won't get pissed off. Get your news from alternative media, not what's mainstream and most likely owned by the 6 Jewish CEOs, oops I'm being "anti-Semetic".
                Free press is a constitutional amendment which garuntees our freedom of information with out danger of censorship. We as citizens can thus be truly enlightened and educated as to the events in our great nation. Such policy has kept this nation among the most honest in history. Believe the media Baron and Anon, it will lead you to truth.

                And dont make general statements. All general statements are false.

                Vote for me!



























                (Please, it was a joke , I am now going to surf. Good bye)

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                • #9
                  well you have a great time surfing, and about the watch man

                  this guy has already began marketing the idea, cool another armenian hopeful millionare in the making.

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                  • #10
                    and it's not just the media, it's everywhere, you probably all heard the Damadian story.

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