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Re: FOGs
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2008 Jan 31, 14:40 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2008 Jan 31, 14:40 -0800
Lu Abel wrote: > > As far as the mind-boggling technology, my favorite is the "lead > balloons." I got a big charge out of that too. Gives new meaning to the phrase "fly like a lead balloon". By the way, I should have made it clear that the Gravity Probe B gyro system uses a star tracker, so the extreme stability isn't entirely due to the exotic gyros. -- I block messages that contain attachments or HTML. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
