There is just something nice about a 60 year old piece of technology (that is 
still being made and used daily) that can be schlepped by a trained ape (aka 
graduate student) to the remote corners of the earth and back and measure 
something as piddly as gravity to parts per billion resolution... and it is 
totally mechanical (except for perhaps a light bulb).

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> Spring based (relative) gravimeters are NOT yet dead...
>
>    http://large.stanford.edu/courses/ph210/lee1/
>

See, there *is* a need for garage Liquid Helium plants...


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