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  Mario Physics: measuring Mushroom Kingdom gravity
Mario Physics: measuring Mushroom Kingdom gravity
mariogravity.jpg This is what we like to see: something to rival Dan Bruno's Mother 3 musical malarkey and Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D.'s fantastic 2007 Halo Science 101 (key finding: "For a Halo with a radius of 5,000 kilometers to simulate one Earth gravity, it would have to spin with a tangential ...
Halo Wars Original Soundtrack Announced and Dated
news.teamxbox.com — The Halo Wars Original Soundtrack 2disc set features over 50 minutes of the adrenalized and sublime original... score from the Halo Wars game. (more) Halo Wars Original Soundtrack Announced and Dated
‘Halo’ Wedding A Success — ‘Teammates For Life!’
‘Halo’ Wedding A Success — ‘Teammates For Life!’
multiplayerblog.mtv.com — Yes, that's Master Chief officiating a wedding ceremony. I spent Saturday down here in Orlando attending Desirai... Labrada and John Henry's Halo Wedding, which went off with barely any hitches. We'll have video from the wedding here and on MTV on ... (more) ‘Halo’ Wedding A Success — ‘Teammates For Life!’
www.videogameslive.com
videogameslive.com — After selling out scores of shows in front of hundreds of thousands of fans around the world,... Video Games Live is proud to announce the live WORLD PREMIERE of the music from the Halo 3: ODST trailer. The music will be given the full symphonic Video ... (more) www.videogameslive.com
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Today on Offworld
Boing Boing Gadgets — Today on Offworld we saw an elaborate scientific study on gravity's weight in Super Mario's Mushroom Kingdom, looked at vintage game ads that brazenly promoted their (actually non-existent) gratuitous violence, and saw one developer doing recruitment ads very right. We also read how the head of Harmonix wants to revive their original cult music-game Amplitude and move onto the iPhone, played Oregon Trail and other Apple II classics in our browsers, read more vintage tales on the making of ...

Today on Offworld
Boing Boing — ... Today on Offworld we saw an elaborate scientific study on gravity's weight in Super Mario's Mushroom Kingdom, looked at ...

The Physics Of The Mushroom Kingdom Are Worthy Of Research [Science]
Kotaku — ... Mushroom Kingdom. So he and his students took each Mario game, tracked how long it took Mario to fall from a pre-determined height, and charted the results. They found that, with each passing Mario game, the Kingdom's gravity gets closer and closer to matching that found in the real world, though it should be noted that the plumber's rate of descent "even on the newest consoles, is still extreme". Acceleration Due to Gravity: Super Mario Brothers [The Physics Factbook, via Offworld ]

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