Use the Force, Luke!
Well that is a pretty worthless article.
There was absolutely no information in it.
I think they’re being sucked back by the imploding black-hole that is Obama’s popularity....
What is NASA doing spending time on that when their job is Muslim outreach?
How much do we now need to study this new force?
Scientists tracking the distant probe (now some 11 billion kilometres from Earth), say that the probe’s speed, presently 43,400km/h, is being reduced by the force by almost 10km/h per century. Not much but entirely noticeable and worthy enough that scientists, like Dr Duncan Steel of Salford University, is speculating this cosmic tug could question whether we know enough about gravity, the universe and everything. [Telegraph]
Bush’s fault! If only he had signed the Kyoto protocols...
Uhhhhh, wouldn't solar radiation be trying to speed it up and wouldn't gravity be trying to slow it down?
Maybe the solar radiation (outward force) is less than expected at that distance and therefore gravity (inward force) is having a greater effect?
It's called "Chuck Norris."
bflr
Never mind that. Where is the planet with the green skin Orion girls?
Only the vast quantity of data on speed and distance in these two probes could have found this anomaly. Even the Voyagers couldn't show this, due to differences in their design. [I don't recall for sure, but I think its because one pair is spin stabilized and the other is not.] When this was first reported as an unexplained deceleration it was expected that careful analysis would find an overlooked conventional explanation; new science was a possible cause, but the least likely one. In context then, this article implies that more conventional possibilities have been ruled out and that exotic causes, like brand new (to us) forces of nature are being seriously considered.
Personally I think the adult civilizations in the universe slapped a quarantine on us to avoid bail out requests from Obama.
Must be V-ger.
Friction is too obvious?
(There’s gotta be regions of gas out there - even on Earth we have giant gasbags like Obama and Al Gore.)
This is not new. Came out a few years ago. Looks like they don’t know all the answers, eh? If they had any sense, they would be questioning their precious equations, not looking for a “new force.”
I’m sure Al Gore will be able to make something of this in his global warming B.S. rant! Come on Al tell us this is proof that we’re destroying ourselves and we have to give you all our money to save us from ourselves!
Bush’s Fault.
Update that.
Palin’s fault.
No, no, from this moment on, everything is Boehner’s fault.
>> NASA scientists say they may have discovered a new force of nature<<
It’s the TEA party movement! Duh!