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How to Clock a Glacier (nautil.us)
13 points by dnetesn on March 14, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> In the lab, Bortolozzo and his coworkers have been able to detect speeds as slow as 20 millionths of a billionth of a meter per second (20 femtometers per second) with a measurement lasting only one second.

I wonder how difficult it is to perform this on a glacier from a moving plane? Measuring relative velocities is impressive, but then how do you know how fast the plane is moving?


Shoot the rocks beside the glacier?


A really big cold angry fist?




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