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Mapping Gravity

Posted by michael on from the slim-fast dept.

overThruster writes: "No, you don't need to drink the water... Gravity is less strong in India--enough so that you weigh almost 1% less there. See BBC story about NASA's gravity map." Here's another story about the mission, and the GRACE home page (or NASA's less-informative page).

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  1. Re:okaaaaaay by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, then it would be cheaper to ship things FROM there, since you get more than a ton per ton. And you could get on the plane with 70 lbs. of stuff, and when you arrive in (wherever) laugh uproariously at the ticket agent, dancing around and saying "ha HA! I have 71 pounds in my bag!"

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  2. Indians, Lawsuit against General Mills! by Phrogz · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The contents of this package are shipped by weight, not volume. Some settling may have occured."

    They're consistently defrauding India. Honeycomb's big (yeah yeah yeah) but it's not quite AS big in India? Sue sue sue! :)

  3. Re:Gravity and height by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try Viagra.

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  4. Well, I already knew this. by tlipcon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, in my physics classroom it's about 30% as strong as anywhere else. I proved it myself in a lab last week- it's about 3.2 m/s^2 in our corner of the room!

    Strangely enough, it's just about 9.8 up front. I guess the earth is pretty aspherical.

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  5. Strong man. by thetechweenie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that why those people stand on their heads over there? You see all of these Hindu guys doing handstands for days and the like... I knew there was I reason I can't do a handstand. Damn that unfair gravity!

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  6. Gravity is not a 'force' per se by Dave21212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when you think about it. But that's another topic. You want a demonstration of force, try the weak nuclear force. When you drop a ball of off a building, it accelerates (~9.8M/s/s) but when it encounters a weak nuclear force (the atoms in the 'ground' where it 'hits') it effectively 'stops'

    In other words, it's not the fall that kills you, it's that sudden stop at the end ;)

    Gravity smavity... let's investigate something interesting

    (in all fairness, my buddy's father is a nuclear scientist who holds the current best measurement for Big G, but I still can't believe it's a 'force' per se)

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  7. Aha! by cygnusx · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Gravity is less strong in India...

    So *this* explains the Indian Rope Trick!
    :-)