"Officials were originally thinking of candles, but then decided a flame at the top of the white column was a cliché and so they put in a blue ball instead."
Yep ... We've started a dedicated thread on the incident:
Didn't see that till later!
It's weird, a bit creepy, but not enough to move house.
Yes, fuzzballs do exist, and they are all under my bed.
It would be creepier if the doll's head itself told the owner to move out.
Possible explanation for the Pioneer anomaly?
My guess is "no", because the canonical 'Pioneer anomaly' alludes to the spacecrafts' rate of acceleration rather than any deviation in trajectory.
Acceleration is a change in trajectory. A moving target that you would have hit, but dont because you speed up, would be an example. In this case a space probe would be in a slightly different location vis a vis gravity wells, which would have an effect.
I'm sure my wording/phrasing is incorrect, hopefully the idea was clear.
It all sounds like a load of ballistics to me.
I hope the flea got a tetanus shot after that.
