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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."
I thought it had to do with some new rendering techinique in HL2.... then i realized it was just boring old space-time stuff...
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
....I can't find the @!#% TV remote. Time to diet, I guess.
Table-ized A.I.
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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?
Stupids mods... this should be funny, not informative. "Chicken" ... "Sanders" ... "Fred" ... it's obviously a joke.
A real 'clucker' of a joke, in fact.
Not posting anonymous, so that I can receive the karmic flogging I deserve for making this meta-comment.
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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.
From the CNN article: Black holes [are] typically much more massive than Earth.