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Measuring Gravity in Your Basement

Posted by michael on from the 9.8-m/s^2 dept.

Jack Durian writes "John Walker, the founder of Autodesk/co-author of AutoCAD has some fun playing pretend experimentalist, measuring gravity in his basement."

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  1. Try to use known problems by Monsieur_F · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I would go to the building superintendent and
    offer him a brand-new barometer if he will tell me
    the value of G"

    --
    McCartney fans pay bus tickets. [...] Lennon fans too, with discretion.
  2. Unpatriotic by kippy · · Score: 3, Funny

    How could we let a traitor like John Walker tell us how to measure gravity.

    It's unamerican!

    --
    Blaze a trail to the New World
  3. How about... by jo42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    John Walker come up with a device to measure the Density of Larry Elison?

  4. Re:He designed autocad, and it shows by TwP · · Score: 3, Funny

    As for black holes, they have no magnetic fields. It's part of the "hair" that they shed on their formation. The only physical properties they have are angular momentum, mass and charge.

    Ahem ... along with angular momentum, mass, and charge, black holes also have color: black!

    *rimshot*

    Poor QCD humor, but induldge me -- my company is turning into a dot-bomb.