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NASA Gravity Probe Launched

Posted by michael on from the up-up-and-away dept.

ping pong writes "Forty-five years in the making and 24 hours late, NASA launched the $700 million satellite into orbit today to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The satellite, which was inserted into a polar orbit, will spend two months getting ready, then 16 months making measurements." NASA's mission news has more.

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  1. So did Marx ... by vlad_petric · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    But his applied utopia (effectively stalinism) killed about 100M people (see "The Black Book of Communism" by Curtois et al.)

    Sure, many people argue that communism wasn't "true" communism as Marx defined it. But I'd similarly argue that it's impossible to implement what Marx proposed with homo sapiens.

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    The Raven