Gravity Probe B is to be commended on the great job they have done. The Gravity Proble B experiment from conception to present has spanned over 50 years based on my guess without going back and looking up any dates. In order to do more in finding answers about our universe would require setting goals and making the quest for this knowledge a priority within the world community. Still, this kind of discovery takes time and the 50 years Gravity Probe B has dedicate will be money well spent as the mean to discover the universe evolves.

What has been gained from the Gravity Probe B experiment lays another stone on the foundation for which the next experiment will come.

Regards,

LelandJ


>>Yep, calibration and clean-up of the data transmitted back to earth from the experiment has taken on a life all its own, and given some unexpected effects interfering with the gyroscopes, which require additional adjustments to the data, make me wonder how accurate and unbiased the final results will be.
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>I am not so worried about the accuracy - it does seem they are doing a great effort to verify everything, and not make unfounded claims.
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>I was merely thinking, whether it would have been easier to go to Jupiter (a black hole or neutron star being too far away for now). But I am not so sure about the feasibility.