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Welcome to program 348 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:42 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:49 MFSK32: NASA wants a new clock for the moon
  6:05 MFSK64: General Electric completes its demerger*
11:43 MFSK64: This week's images*
27:39 MFSK32: Closing announcements

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From AP via Phys.org:

NASA wants to come up with a new clock for the moon, where
seconds tick away faster

by Seth Borenstein
April 3, 2024

NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track
of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.

It's not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire
frame of time reference for the moon. Because there's less
gravity on the moon, time there moves a tad quicker—58.7
microseconds every day—compared to Earth. So the White House
Tuesday instructed NASA and other U.S agencies to work with
international agencies to come up with a new moon-centric time
reference system.

"An atomic clock on the moon will tick at a different rate than a
clock on Earth," said Kevin Coggins, NASA's top communications
and navigation official. "It makes sense that when you go to
another body, like the moon or Mars that each one gets its own
heartbeat."

So everything on the moon will operate on the speeded-up moon
time, Coggins said.

The last time NASA sent astronauts to the moon they wore watches,
but timing wasn't as precise and critical as it now with GPS,
satellites and intricate computer and communications systems, he
said. Those microseconds matter when high tech systems interact,
he said.

Last year, the European Space Agency said Earth needs to come up
with a unified time for the moon, where a day lasts 29.5 Earth
days.

The International Space Station, being in low Earth orbit, will
continue to use coordinated universal time or UTC. But just where
the new space time kicks in is something that NASA has to figure
out. Even Earth's time speeds up and slows down, requiring leap
seconds.

Unlike on Earth, the moon will not have daylight saving time,
Coggins said.

The White House wants NASA to come up with a preliminary idea by
the end of the year and have a final plan by the end of 2026.

NASA is aiming to send astronauts around the moon in September
2025 and land people there a year later.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-clock-moon-seconds-faster.html
 

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From AFP via TechXplore ...


Swan song for General Electric as it completes demerger

by Elodie Mazein
April 2, 2024

The logo of US giant General Electric in Belfort, eastern France,
on June 3, 2019. General Electric is breaking up into three
entities as of April 2, 2024.

The US conglomerate General Electric, co-founded more than 130
years ago by Thomas Edison, is opening a new chapter in its
history on Tuesday: its break-up into three independent entities
which will then concentrate on their disparate core businesses.

The group announced its "spin-off" project in November 2021,
which was to be carried out in several stages.

An initial split took place in January 2023 with the creation of
GE Health care, bringing together all the health care activities.

The official finalization of the separation comes Tuesday, with
General Electric disappearing in favor of GE Vernova, dealing
with energy activities, and GE Aerospace, the new name of the
late GE.

They will be listed in New York, one on Nasdaq and two on the
NYSE.

There will be no holding company, and the three firms will
publish their results independently of one another.

"As independently run companies, the businesses will be better
positioned to deliver long-term growth and create value for
customers, investors and employees," General Electric explained
in 2021 when it announced the demerger.

Among the "many reasons" for the spin-offs were a desire to
simplify the company by getting rid of non-core activities and
improving performance by withdrawing from low-growth or
low-profitability sectors, Neil Saunders of GlobalData told AFP.

"Within this there is usually always a value play that either
bolsters the share price or creates more value for investors and
owners," he said.

"Managing multiple divisions across disparate areas is harder for
a board of directors," he continued, adding: "It is also harder
in terms of communicating vision and strategy to investors."
Capital allocation

The conglomerate 3M—which manufactures scotch tape and post-it
notes, among other things—has also taken the route of General
Electric's demerger: In July 2022, it announced the separation of
its health-related activities.

The new company, named Solventum, began trading on the NYSE on
Monday.

"This is an important day for 3M and Solventum," 3M chief
executive Mike Roman said in a statement.

"Both companies are positioned to pursue their respective growth
and tailored capital allocation plans," he added.

Like GE, which distributed all the shares in GE Vernova to the
conglomerate's shareholders, 3M distributed all the shares in the
new company to its shareholders.

Both firms gave one share in the "child company" for every four
shares held in the "parent company."

However, the parent company can still retain a stake, usually
with the intention of monetizing it at a later date.

This is what General Electric did with GE Health care, in which
it retained a 19.9 percent stake.

However, its spinoff GE Aerospace now holds just 6.7 percent of
the company, according to a spokeswoman for the group.

"It won't be GE Aerospace's intent to hold this in perpetuity,"
she told AFP.

According to McKinsey, an ancillary business that has become
independent can develop further by doing business with companies
that are competitors of its former "parent company."

Other big names on Wall Street have also chosen in recent years
to spin off certain activities.

For example, the giant Johnson & Johnson has retained its
business-to-business activities and created the listed Kenvue for
its consumer products.

And in June 2021, the breakfast behemoth Kellogg announced its
intention to split into three companies, but in the end opted for
just two: WK Kellogg for cereals, and Kellanova for snacks, which
came into being in October 2023.

"Kellogg's is a good case in point with the company splitting off
its low-growth cereals business from the very fast-growing snacks
business," said Saunders from GlobalData. "But it's not without
its disadvantages."

These include the loss of economies of scale resulting from the
sharing of certain structural functions like accounting and human
resources, or a size effect, as is the case in health insurance.

According to CNBC, some thirty-six spin-offs are planned
worldwide by 2024.

On March 19, British hygiene and food giant Unilever announced
its intention to spin off its ice cream businesses—including Ben
& Jerry's and Magnum—following disappointing sales in 2023.

"A demerger of Ice Cream is the most likely separation route,"
the company said at the time, adding it was seeking above all to
"maximize returns for shareholders."

In Unilever's case, the aim is simplification, Neil Saunders
said, because ice cream operates on "a very different operating
model" from Unilever's other products.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-swan-song-general-electric-demerger.html
 

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This week's images ...



Sunset in Suffolk, England. Photo by Liliane Landor, director of
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The stern of the MV Dali, still aground under the wreckage of the
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Spring flowers at the Overland Park Arboretum near Kansas City.
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Spring flowers at Catalina State Park in Arizona.
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The aurora borealis fills the night sky over Straumur, Iceland.
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Sunset at Ardnamurchan, Scotland. https://tinyurl.com/2aq3yphm
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A man crosses a street downtown Kyiv, April 2.
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The neon sign of the Dublin House bar in New York City.
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Our painting of the week is "Solar Eclipse Painting" by Margaret
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