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Mysterious Force Holds Back NASA Probe In Deep Space
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 2-10-2002
| Robert Matthews
Posted on 02/09/2002 6:34:49 PM PST by blam
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To: strela
"Very funny, Scotty. Now turn the tractor beam OFF."My nominee for quote of the week.
To: blam
cosmology ?????? .........Avon and Mark Kay aware of this ?
serious side, very kewl read. I wonder if Art Bells great scientific minds are on this yet ?
Stay Safe !
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posted on
02/09/2002 6:57:25 PM PST
by
Squantos
To: mad_as_he$$
Correction that is "Veeja".
To: eno_
Do you think the "gold plated aluminum" pressing of a man and woman "done to scale" has a woman with Hillary's ass?
Maybe it is just some Senator trying to force them to come back for an upkeep or refurbishment at one of their local constituent run businesses?
To: Pistolshot
This is a serious and/or critical discovery. It would help us understand the laws of space/time and the effects that they have when the interact outide of certain gravitational and speed effects. This is very... very... very... interesting.
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posted on
02/09/2002 6:59:41 PM PST
by
vannrox
To: strela
Sorry strela I just realized I was logged on under my wife's screename; "glick & burnett live on.".
To: jlogajan
...drag due to interstellar gas... My initial thought too. Perhaps related to the same force that initiates/starts up/creates comets as well?
To: *Space
bump
To: jlogajan
"drag due to interstellar gas" Impact and accretion of cosmic debris would about fit their measurements IMHO.
"Look here brother-who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now is that a real space probe or is that a Sears space probe?"
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posted on
02/09/2002 7:02:03 PM PST
by
mrsmith
To: GreenLanternCorps
Yeah, Yoda, that's hilarious. Will you leave the dang probes alone now?
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posted on
02/09/2002 7:02:06 PM PST
by
Pistias
To: blam
Dr Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing works."If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation," said Dr Laing, of the Aerospace Corporation of California.
Looks like another round of Trolling for Dollars.
To: Rebelbase
lol
To: blam
To: blam
This is obviously due to cosmic warming.
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posted on
02/09/2002 7:07:01 PM PST
by
Ragdaltx
To: big ern
Replying to "Glick & Burnett ..." was an interesting experience as well. For some reason, I had to type in the ampersand manually to get it to work.
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posted on
02/09/2002 7:10:55 PM PST
by
strela
To: abwehr
Plus, call me nuts, but I think the scientists would have thought of that....I highly doubt some Freeper speculation will arrive at a possibility they have not thought of....
To: blam
To: blam
I believe this effect can be blamed on Enron!
To: rwfromkansas
Maybe not gas or dust, but, there are only two (well, 2.5) things that would meet the known facts (i.e., apparent immunity to the inverse square law). The first would be in effect the opposite of a "force", i.e., a
resistance (such as gas or dust). Now, a resistance
can be created, I believe,
by a force, i.e., magnetic braking and so forth. Whether or not that's likely I cannot speculate.
The other thing (or thing and a half) would not really violate the inverse square law, but only seem to violate it. That thing would be an attractive (or repulsive, hence the "and a half" literary vehicle :)) force with a source located so far away as to make the force gradient so gradual as to be below any threshold of measurement. (At close range, the gradient is very steep, at long range, it becomes increasingly consistent.)
So, perhaps there's a large, (perhaps dark) object located somewhere far to the other side of the Sun from the probe, exerting a slight pull, apparently constant due to the great distance from the probe.
However, if the effect is seen on two probes that are aimed in different directions relative to the Sun, then it would shoot that theory down.
Maybe it's just the aether wind, flowing towards the Sun. :)
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posted on
02/09/2002 7:24:19 PM PST
by
Don Joe
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