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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."
Is not far behind...
Have you been spinning around a lot lately?
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How many years before we all have to drag ourselves off the couch and go out and readjust our satellite dishes?
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Where are the flying cars?
I want my flying car, dammit!
What is really creapy. I was reading up on General Relativity earlier today.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Why is it that the American government's style of attacking most technical problems seems to involve throwing a lot of money around and doing everything in the most grandiose and impractical way possible? It reminds me of the apocryphal story of the problem of writing in zero gravity, where NASA spent considerable money and resources to develop a pen that doesn't need gravity to feed the ink, and the Russians just took pencils.
During WWII, the Manhattan Project had problems getting copper for the huge electromagnets that they needed to build. No problem- they just went to the Treasury, borrowed 15,000 tons of silver bullion, and wound it into coils! What other country on earth would even have been able to consider such a thing back then? The bomb was a bad thing, etc., but I've always felt sort of proud that I live in a country that's been able to actually do crazy things like that.
... and how exactly are Adam and Eve or Noah's Ark falsifiable or contradictory in any way to modern science?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
We've been inbreeding for a long time, and we've lost (or spread very thin) most of the information that a hyperthetical adam or noah would have had in his DNA. Natural Selection only guarantees that the information in use will remain viable. If a section of DNA is not required there is no selection pressure to ensure it remains accurate, and the information may be lost. Inbreeding is bad because it reinforces the errors that are already there, and reduces redundancy, it doesn't automatically create problems. According to the bible, noah was born less than 1000 years after adam, and after about 10 generations (from memory). Not nearly enough time to develop heaps of nasty copying errors. Also there wasn't only one couple on the ark, there was noah, his wife, their 3 sons and their wives (and maybe some daughters, or younger children, they tend to get ignored / edited out). That's at least 5 genetically different people which should be fairly viable.
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