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Yes, I'd have cards made lol

I would allege that you were doped up on caesium -133 atoms and never stop complaining about the result.

You'd have to overcome the urge to become that guy who only ever talks about that one vacation he went on.

I would find a way to squeeze it in between my first and last names when introducing myself.

That would go to the TOP of mine. Heck, it might serve as my middle name.

Yet, for @astrokatie.com, it is merely another amazing accomplishment in her already impressively long list of accomplishments.

No one would ever be able to tell me my winged eyeliner was off. I’d be all “I’m really very precise. Do you know how I know-?”

Her next book will be all about how the universe is like a Swiss watch. :-)

Ja genau, when she's in Switzerland and/or Germany.

I would be glad to just tour around CERN. Katie rules.

“I guess I was just at the right place at the right time”

Katie is a badass

My god, just reading her bio makes me exhausted, fair play to her!

Picture a perfect Swiss man sitting in his cubic black leather armchair, the crisp click of his lighter as he flames an unforgivingly precise jay -

I'd probably just talk about the virtues of quartz

Same.

That's topline obit stuff!!

Yes but it gives and takes. Imagine the shit talk from her friends and family whenever she's late for anything from now on.

(Twenty years later) "Remember, when I won the Swiss watch precision contest..."

She’s so cool, damn

“Excuse me, do you know what time it is?” Katie Mack: “You’re goddamn right I know what time it is.”

I went to France and won a pétanque tournament. I have brought it up a few times 🤣

Congrats!

K: That's a nice shed did you build that? Acquaintance: Yep, it took forever. I measured everything three times. I like to be as precise as possible, that's why it's so level and sturdy. You could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist. K: Did I ever tell you about the time I went to Switzerland?

It'd certainly be the most technically impressive thing *I've* done in all my days, give or take a few seconds.

“Honey, how much longer until our favorite TV show comes on?” “ According to MY Swiss watch, it will be on in 14 minutes and 17.437 seconds.” (sigh) “thanks”

This is like when Lori Baker's husband noticed that her Tetris scores from just casually playing were better than the world record at the time: www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...

You'd be obsessed! The Neuchâtel Observatory once clocked a quartz wrist-watch that varied by just 0.0003 seconds/day. Time is wild—explore it in 3D at logidias.com/en/

it is very satisfying just to know this is a thing people do. the world is beautiful

Thank goodness you didn't. That would probably ruin xkcd. 😕

Every conversation would start with, "Remember that time I won a contest in Switzerland for most precisely calibrating a Swiss watch? Crazy, right? Anyways, I'd like the Pick 2 with the club sandwich and cheddar broccoli soup."

Same.

manually to correct for small imperfections. The contest likely involved using those controls to correct any latent errors in the watch movement. It would then be judged by determining how much each contestant’s watch indicated time drifted from some “source of truth” over time.

Booo boooooooo this dad joke

i once got an old fashioned alarm clock in a bag. completely disassembled. i put it back together, but something was binding. it never worked for more than 10 seconds without prodding. that was still a win for me, so i am super impressed. actually being able to tune a probably infinitely smaller one

Katie Mack is stronger than you or I.

This moose has been to SkegVegas and does not wish to repeat the experience. 3:OP>

I'm happy to live in switzerland

It would go on my resume.

If you went on about it too much you‘d deserve a good ticking off.

I'm glad you didn't.