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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.

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  1. Ban Free Speech! (Sc0re:5, Patriotic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    PATRIOTS!

    America needs you!
    • Criticism of George W. Bush
    • Criticism of Israel
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  2. Re:Cheap shot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. Re:Scientists crossing fingers, pacing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    100,000 dead residents of Hiroshima agree: E definitely equals MC squared.

  4. Re:Scientists crossing fingers, pacing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, don't forget the 75,000 or so in Nagasaki ...

  5. If you're moving awy from ./ at the speed of light by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This would appear to be a first post.

  6. Build a system that even a fool can use and only.. by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a fool will want to use it.

    YAY LINUX GO FIRST PSOT!

  7. What, no Bush bashing? by N8F8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A space story without Bush bashing? Is this a lefty holiday or somthing?

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    "God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
  8. Re:Excuse me? by spellraiser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check the times. I posted mine 17 mins before BlueUnderwear. By the way, this is nothing personal against anyone - I'm just boggled at the mods here sometimes.

    Oh yes, and the lame google link ... it may be lame to some, but that doesn't mean that the post is Offtopic, just a failed joke :P

    My point is that it's no more Offtopic than BlueUnderwear's musings about Einstein, now is it?

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    I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
  9. Re:That's a lot of money to spend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If your driving an SUV on 'instruments only', going off a cliff is the best thing you can do for mankind.