Codename: Clusterfuck -
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
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Thursday, 18 June 2026
quote [ In the summer of 1774, a team of British astronomers working under the patronage of the Royal Society established camp at the foot of a lonely mountain in the Scottish Highlands to conduct one of the most ingenious scientific experiments of the 18th century. ]
Gravitate, the Earth's own weight
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mechanical contrivance said @ 2:51pm GMT on 18th Jun
Neat.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 2:58pm GMT on 19th Jun
I like the idea the other guy had: measure the strength of gravitation by suspending two lead spheres of known mass and seeing how much they lean toward each other at varying distances from each other by measuring the perpendicularity of the wires suspending them.
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