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NASA Gravity Probe Set for Launch
The Real Dr John writes "NASA announced
yesterday that its longest running program, Gravity Probe B, was ready and
scheduled for launch on April 17th. The project has taken 44 years to complete,
at a cost of approximately $700 million. The reason for the high cost is that
the probe contains the most sensitive gyroscopic equipment ever created, which
will be used to test Einstein's theory of gravity. Einstein predicted that the
gravity created by a large body warped space-time, but he also predicted that if
the large body was rotating it would create a drag effect on space-time
known as frame dragging. Gravity Probe B will be able to test
Einstein's theory using Earth's relatively small gravitational field because the
instruments are so sensitive."
Kinda like how you can't hijack a plane with a boxknife?
i submitted this story, yet it was rejected...only to be posted as front-page news by michael...?
I'd say that (Although AC is a dumbass, NOTHING has killed billions of people within even a decade's time [guessing]) those at Hiroshima, and I believe Nagasaki, were innocent. Those casualties were mostly civilian. Hate to admit it, but Ami's have done some terrorism as well.
(I reiterate: Not sure if Nagasaki was a civilian target)
I hate grammar Nazi's.
we can only hope for that day!
While I know that you (Avihson) were trying to respond to the AC, it looks (to people viewing with Nesting, and a threshold of 1) as though you responded to this message from CrashPoint:
Kinda like how you can't hijack a plane with a boxknife?
With this response:
we can only hope for that day!
When actually, you were responding to this message from an AC:
Parent comment will be "insightful" when they start confiscating cell phones at security checkpoints.
With this message:
we can only hope for that day!
This is not your fault, Avihson.
I respectfully submit that the Slashdot Threshold system is broken, if it allows mis-interpretations like this. Perhaps Avihson's reply to an AC should not be displayed at all, to prohibit just this kind of "mistaken parenthood" for a post.
Education is the silver bullet.
The threshold system is not broken, I should have included the cellphone remark as a quote.
Now, in retrospect, I feel they should not confiscate cellphones, just remove the batteries, and place the main unit in checked baggage!
The "workaround" is to browse at -1. I stand by my assertion that the Slashdot Threshold system is broken.
Education is the silver bullet.