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Old February 20th 12, 02:35 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bill D
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Default Gravity or Space-Time?

On Feb 19, 5:25*pm, Ralph Jones wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:48:37 -0800 (PST), JohnDeRosa

wrote:
Bizzare title right?


It is winter here in Chicago and no soaring to speak of - except for
the Bald Eagles that have just in the last few weeks been seen in the
Fox River valley for the first time in many, many years.


So I was watching a very interesting PBS Nova episode on YouTube about
the latest news and theories in Physics. *One of the concepts
mentioned is that gravity works by warping the space-time continuum.
Whoa. *Because gliders are always falling because of "gravity", I
thought you all might want to study up during this slack season.
Maybe it will help me fly better. *Yeah...right.


Yes, I'm working on a Spacetime Straightening App for smartphones.
Just tap the STRAIGHTEN button, gravity turns off all around your
sailplane, and up you go.

But don't leave it on too long...;-)

rj


Ah, but Ralph, your app will drain the smartphone battery in
femtoseconds. All you need to do is warp space-time to shift the
gravity vector about one degree so your L/D is infinite. The same app
could distort the higgs field to reduce the glider's mass at the
bottom of thermals and increase it as you leave the thermal for in-
flight variable wing loading.