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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. 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
  2. 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.