Joseph Scott Morgan

And you can go into the museum, and this is quite fascinating to me.

And if I'm not mistaken, they have the original rope that sailors used in order to measure knots.

You know how we use miles per hour, kilometers per hour?

Well, you know, for sailors, they use knots.

You know, how fast something is going in a vessel in the water.

Fascinating place.

there's this gigantic red ball there and it's all dented up.

Interestingly enough, because during, I think it was during one of the wars, a bunch of the people that occupied that space up there tried to use this thing as a soccer ball.

And the thing is gigantic, it's metallic and they started knocking it about.

Now it's kind of sealed off and it's got dents in it and everything.

But for years and years,

They have these clocks that are there at at this museum and or actually the spot where time is established and they're set so that.

When it gets to the top of the hour, say at noon, this ball would ascend into the air, okay?

And all of the ships on the Thames, which went all around the world, would send up signals, okay?

to indicate what the time of day was.

It's before, obviously, before we had the ability to even have telegraph to send out messages like this.

And people would go back because, you know, you can go to a variety of different areas all over the world and time is different everywhere you go, right?

So you never know what you're going to find in the Thames.

The reason I'm telling you all of this about this area is that

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