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From: Bill Arden (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 23:34:28 EDT
This thread has gotten me to thinking ...
The best thing about a liquid artificial horizon is that it is
gravitationally driven to be flat and level, but it suffers from breezes.
The best thing about a mirror artificial horizon is that it's permanently
flat, but it's hard to make it level.
Has anybody tried floating a mirror on a liquid bath? You could glue it to a
piece of styrofoam, and if it were only slightly smaller than the pan it's
floating in, there wouldn't be much room for wind to disturb the liquid.
I haven't tried it (this is just a gedanken experiment) - has anybody else?
Regards,
Bill Arden
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