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Testing Relativity

Posted by michael on from the rewriting-textbooks dept.

MGDruss writes "NASA are proposing an empirical measurement on the ISS which would test general relativity to a precision within the bounds of superstring (and other) theories to predict deviation." We mentioned the Cassini experiment last year.

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  1. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP!

  2. they SHOULD be working on a cheap booster by intertwingled · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See a rocket a day.

    P.S. www.fourmilab.ch is by far the coolest site on the web.

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    -- SKYKING, SKYKING, DO NOT ANSWER.
  3. Careful by Supp0rtLinux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can only hope they don't use any of the increasingly popular Linux clusters in their tests. Else SCO might sue NASA and then Joe Taxpayer will end up footing the bill for the legal defense.

    The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers

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  5. Speaking of testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- B. Franklin
    Has anyone tested this, or does Slashdot put any old quote at the bottom of the page?
  6. Arthur C. Clarke's Foresight by pipingguy · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Nevermind all those boring sciency-type experiments, I want to see "Space Boobies Unleashed!" (already TM'd by FOX, I hear) on HDTV-enabled widescreen DVD!

    " The problem was considered in the 1973 science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, in which he wrote: "Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. It was bad enough when they were motionless; but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take. He was quite sure that at least one serious space accident had been caused by acute crew distraction, after the transit of a well-upholstered lady officer through the control cabin."

    1. Re:Arthur C. Clarke's Foresight by boltoflightning · · Score: 0, Offtopic


      very nice! well spoken too. thank you.

      I had an idea that would take us into space. whaddya think?

      a spaceship, having these properties:
      There is no energy production required, which sounds kinda strange...
      the propulsion is simple rotation! the idea kinda makes me dizzy!
      neverthuless, it all seems to fit just right inside me hed.

      that sound like a good idea? some refinement is required, but it seems sound to meh.

      no energy production from the idea that you already HAVE the energy.
      you might just be moving it around..

      the propulsion is the motion, conjunction junction.
      what's my function?
      .

  7. thiS is goatsex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you got there. Or 7orwards we must be in a scene and Turned over to yet

  8. NASA "is" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NASA is a single entity. Therefore "is" is the correct term to use.