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North Carolina Researchers communicate without wires through 240 meters of solid rock.
tgDaily ^ | March 15, 2012 | Kate Taylor

Posted on 03/15/2012 6:48:40 AM PDT by HenryArmitage

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To: HenryArmitage

A feather and a bowling ball will fall at the same rate in a vacuum. So will a neutrino.


21 posted on 03/15/2012 9:43:31 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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I think there is some argument with that. Some theories state a Neutrino is massless and travels at the speed of light in a vaccum. I don’t think Neutrinos ‘fall’ in the same sense as a feather or a bowling ball. Maybe I just have reached the limit of my understanding of this. I think we can at least both agree that there needs to be more research on the neutrino before anything can be stated with confidence.


22 posted on 03/15/2012 10:07:53 AM PDT by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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To: Moonman62

Never mind, even light is subject to gravity. I don’t know what I was thinking.


23 posted on 03/15/2012 10:10:21 AM PDT by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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North Carolina Researchers communicate without wires through 240 meters of solid rock.

That's nothing. Just last night, I said something to my 17-year old son, and he acted like he actually heard it!

24 posted on 03/15/2012 10:13:09 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Selfishly stealing other people's witticisms for taglines since 2002.)
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To: namvolunteer

>> “U.S. taxpayers paid for this research, it should be expressed in yards, feet and inches. Get the UN and its standards out of the United States.” <<

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Or simply decimal US Survey feet, but Amen!


25 posted on 03/15/2012 11:25:10 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: HenryArmitage

Sounds to me like an antenna transmission system with a beamwidth too small to be practically useful. Aperture size, gain and directivity rules wouldn’t apply here...

It would seem to me a damned difficult thing to point or receive....


26 posted on 03/15/2012 11:28:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: bunkerhill7

But with a beam, you can send the message as a coded modulated signal that only the intended redeiver can recognize. Beats a RR track every time. :o)


27 posted on 03/15/2012 11:48:25 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: HenryArmitage

This is already obsolete- It can be blocked by beams of anti-neutinos.


28 posted on 03/15/2012 11:54:39 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Say uncle neutrinos ?? Who knew?)
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