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[Vo]:Hard Drive recovered from Colombia solves Physics Problem

OrionWorks
Wed, 07 May 2008 06:24:36 -0700

See:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hard-drive-recovered-from-columbia&print=true

http://tinyurl.com/65vhrq

excerpt:

He [Robert "Bobby" Berg, the lead investigator for CVX-2 and a
physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in
Gaithersburg, Md.] notes that the experiment could have only worked in
microgravity, to prevent the xenon from settling under its
feather-light weight. With NASA's priorities shifting away from basic
research, he says, "this is the sort of experiment that won't be
duplicated for a long time, if ever."

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