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Mapping Gravity

Posted by michael on Wednesday November 21, 2001 @05:22PM 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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... by BrianGa · 2001-11-21 17:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

1% of 500lbs is...
Re:oh that's why by man_ls · 2001-11-21 17:33 · Score: 1, Offtopic

That's so racist, but that's funny. India's not a place I'd care to go to eat, that's for sure. I hate curry, too.