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NASA Gravity Probe Launched
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.
could this post be considered a relatively first post?
We fail to understand the gravity of this situation.
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
The experiment uses three key components: a spinning sphere, a telescope and a star.
One of these components can't be had from Sharper Image : can you guess which?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"E had just better equal MC squared...E had just better equal MC squared..."
"The experiment uses three key components: a spinning sphere..."
ding ding ding ding ding!
is this going to be like Event Horizon where the probe travels to Hell and back and then kills most of us?
And vanished. It awoke to find itself trapped in other probes' bodies, facing mirror images that were not its own. Its only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from its own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only the probe can see and hear. And so the probe finds itself leaping from orbit to orbit, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time, that its next leap will be the leap home
> will spend two months getting ready
Sounds like my girlfriend.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
if they can really trust the data gathered from something built by products of one of the supposedly worst education systems in the world :P
Hey, but at least it is the most expensive...
Who said we're going to share the information? The secrets of relativity are ours, and the rest of the world can just go on thinking that e=mc^2! Suckaz!
What most people don't know is that it was actually launched last week.
Its experiments of relativity caused it to move close to the speed of light forcing the effects of time dilation to make it appear as if it was delayed 24 hours, when in reality it was launched long before its scheduled date.
Admit it, this post has something to do with today being 4/20, now doesn't it?!!!
Jeez, first the 9/11 probe, now this. Does governmental inquest know no bounds?!
This story is depressing. Gravity brings me down.
Sounds like my Girlfrind when we go shopping...
I am become Troll, destroyer of threads
well it *is* 4/20 after all...
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a spinning sphere, a telescope and a star Well, if one of these would have been left aside, the production costs could have been used to make a whole movie (2hrs) on the Moon, .. if there remains any land not already sold : )
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Please explain the downside of SUVs plunging off cliffs...
Helium balloons want to be free.