[ksaj]

I just sent an email to my old high school buddy. I'm sure this is incorrect, and I've asked him for his remembrance of something we did on a lark.

One night David Letterman did an episode where throughout the show, the camera(s) did a full 360 degree revolution.

When the show was half-way through, it was of course, upside down. So we turned the television upside down.

I personally don't remember anything unusual about the way the show appeared, other than that the TV was upside down, and then on its side for a few minutes at the 45 minute mark.

If he responds within a reasonable time, I'll follow up to mention if he remembers this the same way I do.

[hammyhavoc]

People frequently rotate CRTs for arcade games. They're fine.

[ksaj]

Actually, this is a perfectly good point - arcade games had their CRTs on a 45 degree angle, some on portrait and some on landscape direction, and they showed no "intermediate" effects that you'd expect if this gravity claim was true. There were even "table" video games where the CRT was 90 degrees upward, which should have really messed things up if this gravitational effect was at all true.

Likewise, remember the green swooping radar of days gone by? In wartime, those regularly got a wild ride through gravity, and yet you never hear of them having a problem with it.

I'm really thinking this article's "throw-away" comment is really worth throwing away.

[toast0]

> Likewise, remember the green swooping radar of days gone by

Monochrome CRTs don't have a shadow mask or an aperture grille, and no degausing or need for it. Certainly, magnetic fields will interact with the electron beam of a monochrome CRT, but if it's the earth's magnetic field, it will be uniform over the whole screen, and not a big deal.

[LocalH]

They most likely also degauss the tube while in the vertical orientation.

[hammyhavoc]

I've never needed to. Just tried it and didn't make any perceivable difference.