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Reflected Gravitational Waves

WSOGMM sends in an arXiv blog post about reflecting gravity waves. The speculation is that reflected gravity could go some ways toward explaining the odd readings being returned by Gravity Probe B. "In the couple of weeks since he introduced the idea that superconducting sheets can reflect gravity waves, Raymond Chiao from the University of California, Merced, has been busy with a couple of buddies working out how big this effect is... Chiao and co. ask how big the effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet is compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger."

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  1. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, lulz are anti-YOU!

  2. Re:We now know the question to the answer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're an extremely unsurprising fuck.

    Trolls the guy called Adolf Hitroll...

  3. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Linker3000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Likewise:
    Forward deflector arrays
    Tachyon beams
    Crossing the streams.
    . /Meh - Chuck Norris could easily beat 42 sharks with frikkin lasers!

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  4. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sup Dawg, we heard you like Douglas Adams, so we Douglased an atom in the gravity so you can super while you conduct.

  5. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The lulz are like cars and...

  6. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by RMingin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new lulz-killing overlords.

    You must be new here.

    Fixed that for you.

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  7. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris with 42 Sharks with lasers is lulz.

  8. DIE IN A FIRE by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You heard me loud and clear: DIE IN A FIRE.

  9. Re:Cue the Douglas Adams references! by Camann · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *AA lawyers are a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the rebellion comes.

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