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    Time Dilation: Is it Counterintuitive?

    What about gravity, as the stationary clock D has no gravity, where the osccilating clock ranges from 1g to 0g to 1g? In orbit, the clocks speed up (relative to the surface) as gravity drops, and slow down as the speed increases. Has this been tested, the effect of decread gravity on a clock...
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    Could a Magnetic Lift System Be the Future of Rocket Launches?

    Easy Fred, Rutan has earned his props! His was a really slick development to throttle a solid rocket. Understand, this motor cannot be turned off, just throttled back. It is only good for short flights as the fuel continues to smolder until spent, and when it is ‘off’, it requires ignition...
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    Is nonconformity a sign of immaturity?

    I would suggest that immature = convenient insult that isn’t particularly vulgar on the face of it, and so can be handed out with little fear of rebuke, and some non-conformists are fairly obviously differentiable from the majority of the populace. Being obviously different from the majority...
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    Why following Gossip and Fashion really is a Matter of Life and Death

    From all I’ve seen, there is no particular gender difference in quantity nor quality for either gossip or fashion, and both appear to pre-date civilization (homo-erectus has been found, I believe, to have traded tool flint and body paint over great distances – I’ll bet they traded gossip as...
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