[pct-l] RE: Gravity

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Uh....now look;;;there aint no gravity anomalies anywhere that is gonna  move 
your car...sorry...no...not ever...
 
In order to move youre car, Mr Gravity Anomalie is gonna havta over come  the 
inertia of  the car and (more importantly for my example here)  both the 
static friction (car is stuck on road) and the moving friction (the  resistance of 
the bearings, piston vacuum, etc.(anyone pointing out piston  vacuum is not a 
form of friction will be told to get a life.))  
 
Grab yourself a paper airplane,  You know, the kind with the pointy  front.  
Wave it in front of Mr. Gravity Anomalie.  Taunt  him. (nyah nyah...gravity 
ain't been quatified...week force, week  force...nyah, nyah ,nyah...)  Be 
careful because Mr Gravity Anomalie has a  big advantage here.  Since gravity is 
proportional to the mass of the  objects attracting each other, your airplane 
will initially be attracted to  Mr. G. just as the car was.  Release said plane 
out of your  hand.  The moment you release it static friction and moving 
friction will  aproach zero.  (Any aerospace engineers are hereby reminded that Star 
Trek  is on and it's time to get offline.) Airplane will licketyspit start 
sailing  toward Mr G.
 
My point is that if it can move a car, there'd be a lot more amazing stuff  
to observe: confetti flying off your hand on a windless day. 98 pound  
weeklings throwing shot puts record lengths.  52 year old  men, who are slightly 
overweight with a little grey (loves movies,  long walks on the beach, romantic 
dinners, please reply off line) running the  10.2 hundred meter dashes of their 
youth (sigh...)  You don't see reports  like that, but there are lots of 
reports of moving cars...because it's possible  for your eye to not get it right.  
There are in fact true gravity  anomalies, but the forces are measured by 
things like the deflection of metal  foil resting on the point of a pin, nothing 
bigger than that.
 
So you see it just aint so...
 
....this was fun...I haven't enjoyed anything like this since Tom and I got  
into that big arguement at work about what's in the air portion of those super 
 Pasturized MiniMoos we use to add cream to our coffees...it ended when I  
bloodied his nose and screamed that the vapor pressure off milk "solids" was not 
 zero...that showed him... 
 
And in an effort to make this relevant to the PCT...I like the PCT...it's  
cool...