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1) Global Warming
2) Bush’s fault
falling under the influence of V’ger?
Dr Kaku mentioned a couple weeks ago that several papers are in preparation because of this anomaly and the slingshot anomaly. Don’t know if this is part of that work.
Laid to rest? After accounting for a third of the anomaly? Pretty sloppy science I'd say. Tiny fractions of a percent anomalies have lead to enormous discoveries.
Are they saying it’s caused by “Global Warming?”
Unless they can show some kind of consistent vector for these “heat emissions” they have a problem with this theory. Such emissions would radiate with an essentially equal force in all directions in a globular pattern averaging out any thrust.
So much for escaping the Solar System!
All your Pioneer are belong to us!
Hitchhiking thetans from the van Allen belt?
I can't tell if you're kidding, man. Radiation pressure is real, heat causes thermal radiation.
(Einstein derived the formula E = mc2 as an addendum to his 1905 paper on relativity, actually reasoning that the mass of radiation is related to its energy, m = E/c2 from considerations of radiation pressure.)
Most of the radiation pressure on objects in space is caused by reflection of solar radiation. Reflection actually imparts twice the impulse that absorbtion does. Absorbed radiation is ultimately reradiated, but perhaps not as directionly, some component of the scattered velocity in the same direction as the incident, thereby partially cancelling the effect of absorbtion.
Radiation pressure is never more than a few millionths of the effect of gravity, but integrated over time, the effect is measurable.
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