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On 8 nov, 09:54, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
> "Minister: (rising) Mr Pudey, (he walks about behind the desk in a
> very silly fashion) the very real problem is one of money. I'm afraid
> that the Ministry of Silly Walks is no longer getting the kind of
> support it needs. You see there's Defence, Social Security, Health,
> Housing, Education, Silly Walks ... they're all supposed to get the
> same. But last year, the Government spent less on the Ministry of
> Silly Walks than it did on National Defence! Now we get  348,000,000 a
> year, which is supposed to be spent on all our available products. (he
> sits down)."
>
> Sad news indeed. More sad news:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;sessionid=K1U0KTMW3ZX...
> "Last week, an American probe began an 18-month mission to put
> Einstein's prediction to the test, 90 years after he unveiled his
> ideas in Berlin. Gravity Probe B was blasted into space from the
> Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and
> will orbit the Earth for more than a year. The $700 million joint
> mission between Nasa and Stanford University, conceived in 1958, uses
> four of the most perfect spheres ever created inside the world's
> largest Thermos flask to detect minute distortions in the fabric of
> the universe.....Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, said: "The
> project's a technical triumph, and a triumph of the persistence and
> lobbying power of Stanford University. But its gestation has been
> grotesquely prolonged, and the cost overruns have been equally gross.
> I recall hearing a talk about the project from Francis Everitt
> (principal investigator) when I was still a student - and it was
> already well advanced. "Back in the 1960s the evidence for Einstein's
> theory was meagre - just two tests, with 10 per cent precision. But
> relativity is now confirmed by several tests, with precision of one
> part in 10,000. It's still, in principle, good to have new and
> different tests. But the level of confidence in Einstein's theory is
> now so high that an announcement of the expected result will 'fork no
> lightening'. "Moreover, if there's an unexpected result, I suspect
> most people will suspect an error in this very challenging experiment
> rather than immediately abandon Einstein: There's now so much evidence
> corroborating Einstein, that a high burden of proof is required before
> he'll be usurped by any rival theory. "So the most exciting - if un-
> alluring - outcome of Gravity Probe B would be a request by Stanford
> University for another huge sum of money to repeat it."
>
> http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12867-astronomys-future-brigh...
> " Constellation-X has been part of NASA's Beyond Einstein programme,
> but in September a National Research Council advisory panel said that
> programme should be focused on understanding dark energy. That left
> the Constellation-X proposal in limbo, and its fate probably will not
> be decided until 2010, when an expert review panel is set to recommend
> NASA missions for the coming decade. At best, that could mean a launch
> for the mission, which is expected to cost $2.1 billion dollars,
> around 2020. That leaves NASA with only one modest X-ray mission in
> the queue - NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), which will
> study high-energy X-rays."
>
> Pentcho Valev

dear / CHER Pentcho Valev,

j'ose espérer que ton anti-budget est moins important...

tonton Albert.