Good morning.
It’s a mild day ahead for Whitewater, with a high of sixty-two degrees, and a chance of afternoon showers.
Today will be the third in a series of either groundbreaking ceremonies or openings for the Innovation Center. For posts about that project, see Innovation Center/Tech Park. After these many months, a building with tens of thousands of square feet now has about 780 square feet rented for a private concern (and even then, one that has some workers with publicly-paid work elsewhere).
That’s 97-98% public, but only 2-3% private, in a town with a dozen greater, more urgent needs.
The truth about how all this will turn out, though, isn’t to be found in the contemporary commentary on the project, but in a pithy remark from a long-dead Roman. More on that later today.
Over at Science News, there’s a video map of the earth’s gravitaional field — it’s not all uniform, but irregular —
Gravity varies from place to place because of many factors, such as the presence of mountain ranges, the bulge around Earth’s equator, and the moon’s gravitational influence. The new snapshot comes from the European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite, launched in 2009 to map the geoid. GOCE dances along at the top of the atmosphere, using six special accelerometers to measure, many times a second, how the Earth’s gravity tugs on the spacecraft.
PLANETARY PULL from Science News on Vimeo.