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Comment Re:Economy of Scale (Score 2, Interesting) 283

by BigPappa on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @07:14PM (#31002570) Attached to: The Upside of the NASA Budget

As for automated rendezvous, the Russians have been doing this for years. Just buy it from them.

Problem is the Russian one sucks bad. Seems like 8/10 times the ISS crew has to bring the Progress ships in manually anyway.

Gamma Ray Anomaly Could Test String Theory 128

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 24, 2007 @10:02PM from the finally-experimental-data dept.

exploder writes "String theory is notorious for its lack of testable predictions. But if the MAGIC gamma-ray telescope team's interpretation is correct, then a delay in the arrival of higher-energy gamma rays could point to a breakdown of relativity theory. A type of 'quantum lensing effect' is postulated to cause the delay, which is approximately four minutes over a half-billion year journey." Ars's writeup is a little more fleshed-out than the Scientific American blog posting.

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