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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Could I make a DOJ Freedom of Information Request for the clock data of NASA's Parker Solar Probe?

The Parker Solar Probe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe will, by 2025, be achieving speeds as high as 430,000 mph, far faster than anything ever achieved by a large, man-made object. As such, it provides a unique opportunity to unambiguously and precisely test the predictions of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Indeed, by the end of 2025, I believe the discrepancy between the passage of time on earth, and the passage of time on the Parker Solar Probe, should have reached nearly a full minute, according to the predictions of Special Relativity, anyway. So, I was wondering if I could obtain data from NASA, through the DOJ Freedom of Information Act, detailing precisely how this temporal discrepancy has developed, over the years. Or, if NASA is actually compensating for this discrepancy, could I obtain information from them detailing at what temporal intervals they are reprogramming the Solar Probe's clock with the correct time, and by exactly how much they are adjusting it.

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