NA$A spends $239M to discover gravity


iconNASA scientists at Lockheed Martin have discovered gravity in a way that would make Isaac Newton beam with pride.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A nearly completed, $239 million weather satellite suffered significant damage when it toppled to the floor as it was being moved at a Lockheed Martin plant, officials said Tuesday.
Apparently, someone forgot to make sure that the sensitive scientific instrument big paperweight was properly bolted down. I had thought that NASA had already discovered gravity, when the Mars Observer plummeted to the Martian surface after a simple newtons-pounds math error.

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Nobody has ever done a successful calculation using newtons. F=ma is no help; in fact it's the trouble. A proper metric system would have gravity be 1.

Posted by: Ron Hardin at September 11, 2003 10:20 AM

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