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In this household, we obey the laws of physics! Tuesday before last, we mentioned that two scientists had announced what they claim is the first accurate measure of the speed of gravity.
Now, Emperor_Alikar writes "In an article on Space.com, many physicists have criticized the current work on the speed of gravity, calling it 'nonsense' and 'simply incorrect.' Many of them still doubt the claims made by Fomalont and Kopeikin even before the results were even announced. Many of the physicists still hold on to the idea that gravity works instantaneously no matter what the distance, an idea that originated by Newton, but that was argued against by Einstein."
Back from the back from the back from the dead. Checkers writes "Spacedaily.com posted the following two stories about Iridium today. The first story is about the DoD committing the first of three renewal options that will use Iridium through 2005. The second story related story is about an agreement inked between Iridium and Harris Corp. that allows Iridium the right to use Harris' OS/COMET satellite command and control system for the life of the Iridium satellite network."
E.T. was also into this scene. In re: matt simpson writes "Another fantastic Speak & Spell modder is Dave Wright of the band "not breathing". You can check his work out, among other modifications to toys, at www.carrionsound.com Dave has made speak & spell/math/read for Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto, and many other bands. Figured you might be interested in other neat synth hackers :)"
Further evidence, never a good time to buy. SpinnerBait writes "It's seems like Serial ATA Controllers have been on the market forever but where have all the Serial ATA Hard Drives been? The wait seems to finally be over, as HotHardware shows with this review and showcase on a pair of new Seagate Barracuda V Serial ATA drives. This article covers benchmarks with the product in single drive configurations, as well as RAID 0. In addition, they show performance on two different SATA controllers, from Promise and Silicon Image. And oh, those nice thin neat little SATA cables! Gotta love 'em."
We've had a few articles about Serial ATA; I hope it lives up to its reputation.
Just to add to the confusion ... probejockey writes "A current article in the Globe and Mail claims SCO will start collecting licensing fees from some Linux users, not all Linux vendors as previously reported here."
Birds of a feather, separate rooms. Finally, Declan McCullagh sent in a few interesting links yesterday regarding the RIAA and its announced opposition to mandated DRM technologies:
"First, here are the photos from today's press conference.
Second, the supposed news of today's announcement was that the RIAA would no longer pursue mandatory-DRM technologies like the Hollings bill. But it was the MPAA that was behind Hollings from the beginning (September 2001). And when Hollings finally introduced his bill in March 2002, it was the MPAA that endorsed it, while the RIAA pointedly did not."
Thanks to Declan for the links.
Wasn't smart enough to get in, either ... Finally, thanks to the several readers who alerted me by email and in comments that the school variously rendered Cal Tech, CalTech and other things even worse is in fact properly spelled "Caltech."
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" Homer mutters this when Lisa, bored at being out of school, creates a perpetual motion machine.
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Disclaimer: The above statement probably includes half-truths, because real truth is too complicated.
No, it just changes what the physicists tell you.
It looks like the Carrion Sound is now officially dead. Gotta love a site whose title describes its hosting status.
That would be a BAD THING. I line with current US economic thinking BAD THINGS do not exist. So your question is not a valid question. You must be a terrorist supporter...
Finally, thanks to the several readers who alerted me by email and in comments that the school variously rendered Cal Tech, CalTech and other things even worse is in fact properly spelled "Caltech."
And of course, "Caltech" is pronounced: sall-TEESH
Glad I could clear that up!
The thing is, you wouldn't know the Sun disappeared till 8 minutes after the fact anyways. Wouldn't it be so cool that here we are whizzing off into space for 8 minutes while the sun is still shining brightly.
"What's this strange force pulling us off into space?"
"It's actually the lack of the sun's gravity. The sun must've disappeared!"
"Let's enjoy the last 8 minutes of sunlight while we can! Woohooo!"
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TClevenger wrote:
If the Sun suddenly disappears (hypothetically), would the Earth continue to hold its orbit for 8 or so minutes, or would it go whizzing off into space instantly? Does this new "Speed of Gravity" research change that answer from what it was, say, a year ago?
If the sun disappeared now the Earth would instantaneously...how you say, 'whizz off' into space instantly. But if the sun would have disappeared, say, last year, then the sun would have maintained orbit for 8 minutes THEN it would 'whizz off'
Fat people are harder to kidnap.
An interesting question like that deserves an interesting answer. Too bad it's "we don't know".
:)
Welcome to the wonderfull world of science, where a smart person can ask more than a more informed person can answer
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
People, we need to boycott this insidious attempt by Micro$haft and the evil **AA along with Senator Disney and the BSA to control our PCs! Join the EFF, delete your Windows partition, and FIGHT BACK against this menace! Power to the people!
oh, Iridium? oops, never mind.
sulli
RTFJ.
hehe, you can assign negative values to people using the karma bonus. That's pretty nice, you can now mod down the big-swinging-cock-because-i've-got-karma people. :-) yaaa
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
Check your user preferences, messages. Readers decide how much the bonus is worth. Set it to 1 instead of the default, 0, and you'll see the old behavior.
Today's exercise in open source user-friendliness is making a major change to score display with no notice or explanation. After all, users can simply download the current Slash code from SourceForge CVS, grep for "No Karma Bonus", see what variable the checkbox sets and work back through the source to figure out why display seems to be broken. Oh! It's just a new preference that needs to be set!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
You made a typo in your post.
I believe what you meant to say was "My entire understanding of physics comes from half-remembered articles in Scientific American that I didn't really understand."
ZFS: because love is never having to say fsck
Maybe those 2000 posters are the ones with software using Linux-ABI.