Thursday 3 October 2013

This Tower Exists Solely for Dropping Things



This Tower Exists Solely for Dropping Things
Oct 3rd 2013, 18:30, by Geoff Manaugh

191v4ogvfwxngjpgThe 475-foot “drop tower” in Bremen, Germany, is not a rocket disguised as a building, but a giant hollow tube used for experimentally dropping things—letting go of objects, watching them plummet toward the ground, and using those nearly 10 seconds of free-fall as a way to study the effects of weightlessness. Fear not that scientists [...]

    







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