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"Llanzlan Klazmon" |
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23 Aug 2005 05:17:42 PM |
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Gravity Probe B |
In case no one had noticed. Gravity probe B completed its' data aquisition
phase last week. They are completing the mission with calibration tests until
the dewar of liquid helium runs out.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
Klazmon.
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| User: "The Ghost In The Machine" |
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| Title: Re: Gravity Probe B |
24 Aug 2005 07:00:04 AM |
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In sci.physics, Llanzlan Klazmon
<Klazmon@llurdiaxorb.govt>
wrote
on 24 Aug 2005 10:17:42 +1200
<Xns96BC68BA156A5Klazmonllurdiaxorbgo@203.97.37.6>:
In case no one had noticed. Gravity probe B completed its' data aquisition
phase last week. They are completing the mission with calibration tests until
the dewar of liquid helium runs out.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
Klazmon.
Hm...I thought the data acquisition was supposed to last 2
years (730 days). But good; we should see some reasonably
interesting results from all this, if the lay press doesn't
totally mangle it somehow.
But I do have a question. GR obviously predicts a torque
effect from Earth's spinning. What do nBaT and standard
Newtonian theories predict here?
--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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| Title: Re: Gravity Probe B |
23 Aug 2005 05:47:39 PM |
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Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
In case no one had noticed. Gravity probe B completed its' data aquisition
phase last week. They are completing the mission with calibration tests until
the dewar of liquid helium runs out.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
One expects observed frame dragging to have been accurately predicted
by General Relativity to within experimental error. A key datum is
being kept sequestered. The experiment will be blindly calculated to
the end, then the last piece will be inserted to get the answer.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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| User: "Ken S. Tucker" |
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| Title: Re: Gravity Probe B |
23 Aug 2005 11:15:36 PM |
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Uncle Al wrote:
Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
In case no one had noticed. Gravity probe B completed its' data aquisition
phase last week. They are completing the mission with calibration tests until
the dewar of liquid helium runs out.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
One expects observed frame dragging to have been accurately predicted
by General Relativity to within experimental error. A key datum is
being kept sequestered. The experiment will be blindly calculated to
the end, then the last piece will be inserted to get the answer.
Well Al, your cynicism maybe founded, but I hope your
wrong, but the reporting has turned queer, because of
sequester. A fudge would destroy NASA's reputation.
Ken
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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| Title: Re: Gravity Probe B |
24 Aug 2005 02:29:33 PM |
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"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
Uncle Al wrote:
Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
In case no one had noticed. Gravity probe B completed its' data aquisition
phase last week. They are completing the mission with calibration tests until
the dewar of liquid helium runs out.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
One expects observed frame dragging to have been accurately predicted
by General Relativity to within experimental error. A key datum is
being kept sequestered. The experiment will be blindly calculated to
the end, then the last piece will be inserted to get the answer.
Well Al, your cynicism maybe founded, but I hope your
wrong, but the reporting has turned queer, because of
sequester. A fudge would destroy NASA's reputation.
Ken
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
That link and links within it describe the experiment. A key datum is
being kept sequestered. The experiment will be blindly calculated to
the end, then the last piece will be inserted to get the answer.
NASA's reputation is porkbarrel, bureaucracy, situational ethics,
lies, failure, and death. The most expensive boost to low Earth orbit
is the Space Scuttle - some $30/gram net payload. No other booster or
lifter in use approaches that cost. OTOH, the Space Scuttle does have
limited capacity - downgraded day by day for "safety concerns."
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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| User: "Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" |
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| Title: Re: Gravity Probe B |
23 Aug 2005 05:42:43 PM |
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Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
In case no one had noticed. Gravity probe B completed its' data aquisition
phase last week. They are completing the mission with calibration tests until
the dewar of liquid helium runs out.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
Klazmon.
Golly, I *hadn't* noticed. I've been dragging my frame around doing
other things, and the effect of data-collection stoppage in space was
just so small here on Earth, that I missed it.
SBH
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