[thechat] Speed of light may have changed recently

Chris Spruck cspruck at mindspring.com
Sun Jul 4 14:29:12 CDT 2004


On 4 Jul 2004, at 05:46, Martin Burns wrote:

>What kind of physics does NASA use to plan moon|mars landings? 
>Newtonian. Now when they master the metric system, perhaps we'll let 
>them play with relativity ;-)

One word. 

Beagle.

Sorry, and a link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3376193.stm.

/me goes to look at Mars surface photos and soil chemistries. Hey, what's this NASA logo...

Seriously though, hope you guys get back on the space horse, as it were. We shouldn't have *all* the space fun.

Chris




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