Actually, it was a joke, not an exposition on general relativity's
explanation of gravity. It derives from the era of SX-28's and 75A4's.
Mass or not, they would hold your desk down.
I now live in NW NV, also earthquake country, and our bookcases and
furniture are indeed tied to the studs. Nevertheless, my FP-1030A is
doing a good job of holding my desk to the floor. :-) Possibly, we all
need to lighten up a little.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
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On 10/29/2015 5:11 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
Extra mass does not help in a gravity outage. It would just make more
momentum as the power supply was flying away from the earth
(centrifugal force from the earth’s rotation). It might be useful in
a gravity brownout. But maybe not.
In earthquake country, we do have something like a gravity outage.
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake had peak accelerations of 1.8g
horizontally and over 1g vertically. That is why we bolt the house to
the foundation, because the foundation could drop so fast that the
house would hang in the air and come down in not quite the same spot.
Oops.
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