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Frame Dragging by Earth Reconfirmed
smooth wombat writes "After 11 years of watching the movements of two Earth-orbiting satellites, researchers found each is dragged by about 6 feet (2 meters) every year because the very fabric of space is twisted by our whirling world.
The results, announced today, are much more precise than preliminary findings published by the same group in the late 1990s.
The researchers say their result is 99 percent of the predicted drag, with an error of up to 10 percent. The details are reported in the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Nature."
derr... my brain thought "what? frame dragging? story about networks or something?"
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After 11 years of watching the movements of two Earth-orbiting satellites, researchers found each is dragged by about 6 feet (2 meters) every year because the very fabric of space is twisted
The researchers say their result is 99 percent of the predicted drag, with an error of up to 10 percent
I think my head just exploded
....I can't find the @!#% TV remote. Time to diet, I guess.
Table-ized A.I.
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Tysons Equation explains this:
ch/(c - ke^n)
Where c is speed of light, of course, h is a coefficient representing the fabric and this is a quotient where k is a coefficient to the constant e (~ 2.7) and raised to n which is a variable for mass or changing objects in space.
Sanders developed a corollary for this saying:
f-r/e^d
where f is the temperature in space in farenheight and r is the change, divided by e, again, to the d, which is similar to n, but loses its delta value.
It's a lot to grasp if you don't know physics well, but what they say is that objects do indeed get entangled in the fabric of space time and move, due to gravity. Neat stuff...really. Hehehe.
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"lol.. kind of sad really.
Read this hours ago on CNN, doesn't seem too interesting yet."
Where did you think the submitter got the story, you insentive clod!
From the CNN article:
"Ciufolini's team analyzed millions of laser signals bounced off two satellites, called LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2. Both are highly reflective spheres not designed to do any work of their own. They look like 2-foot-diameter (0.6m) golf balls and contain no batteries or electronics."
Space Balls?
My framerate has been dragging too but I don't see the relevance of satellites to this issue. I've got cablemodem so satellite internet latency cannot be the problem.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Your local junior high science fiction club would be a good place.
it's really a sad state of affairs when a glorified weblog isn't able to report news faster than a multibillion dollar media corporation with reporters stationed all over the globe.
Existence is not necessarily based on STRAIGHT FACTS. Sometimes distorted truths or twisted lies partially belie the evidence in plain view.
The accuracy of TRUTH has been determined to suffer a truth variance. Politicians are known to spin yarn and alter the very fabric of space, time, and facts usually accepted without question. However, due to their dragging the truth so far as to rip the facts from the framework, the results are about only 10% accurate.
There is a margin of error of this report of about 4.8992.2333.285%
This truth is NOT to be tisdorted, nor dispooted.
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Not to be pedantic, didn't we learn that conversions in spacecraft need to be more precise?
Sincerely,
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From the CNN article: Black holes [are] typically much more massive than Earth.
In reality it is just the Vogons doing an interstellar highway survey. Guess what, we are in the way!
My favorite one of all time is: Yo Mama's so fat when she jumps up in the air she gets stuck.
I don't think so. Legislation is not the answer to every problem.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
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I got frame dragging when playing Doom 3, so I updated to a GeForce 6800. The planet just needs to do something similar.
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wanna bet the next few episodes of star trek enterprise are gonna talk about how "the frame dragging around us is warping the space time continuum!" it'll probably be the nazis fault too...
Pencils fill the confined atmosphere with graphite dust. You don't want layers of graphite on your circuit boards.
They US/SU should both have just used either wax crayons, or etchasketch.
FP.
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This just confirms what I've always known - that very fat people should not be allowed on fair ground rides that spin very quickly.