Gravitational Attraction
What would happen if two people out in space a few meters apart, abandoned by their spacecraft, decided to wait until gravity pulled them together? My initial thought was that …
Word of the Day: Micromort
I'm not starting a new "word of the day" series, but I did learn this
work today from the following video on risk analysis:
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PtQ67urG4
It's an entertaining introduction to risk analysis, and they use the word micromort, referring to a measurement of the quantity of an action which gives you a 1 in a million chance of dying. The website is www.understandinguncertainty.org.
