Founder: Darwin Randall Crum (1931-1999) Chairman: Darlyne Olimb Crum Vice Chairman and site maintainer: Randall Munroe |
As our first project since reconstituting the Society, ASCG Labs has developed an advanced Gravity Detector, capable of determining whether or not there is gravity. Details here. |
Do you have an idea of how to conserve gravity in the home? Do you have a success story? Do you want to draw attention to an egregious and easily avoidable waste of gravity? Send it to me at rmunroe@gmail.com and I may publish it on this site. |
Promote ASCG - Bumper sticker & shirt Gravity Detector - ASCG Labs project Proposal: Washington Monument Proposal: Sears Dock Gravitonian - January 1980 Gravitonian - January 1982 OMNI Magazine Coverage Crosscurrents Coverage Questionnaire - Do you have a gravity problem? GRAVITONIAN, Jan. 1982 |
The Society was formed by a group of concerned citizen-scientists who felt the need to alert the public to mankind's ultimate disaster. The incessant irresponsible squandering of man's most precious terrestrial resource by an unthinking, unknowing populace has to be stopped! Consider the following:
A gruesome picture? It is indeed! Can something be done? It can, and the American Society for the Conservation of Gravity is doing it. Our activities fall into three broad categories:
The Society has, in fact, established a policy of avoiding governmental sponsorship. We can envision the establishment of the Department of Gravity, with a twenty-billion dollar budget, thousands of bureaucrats, consultants and ne'er-do-well politicians. Even then, our gravity would undoubtedly all end up in Georgia, complete with a totally incomprehensible tax and coupon system. Our Society feels that this problem is a matter best handled by the intelligent individual. We urge you to do your part. A few easy steps, taken by enough concerned people, will suffice to stave off disaster. We urge you to support the Society, join in its activities, teach your friends and neighbors what they can do, and above all, conserve our most precious terrestrial resource.
The American Society for the Conservation of Gravity was formed by my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, in March of 1980. Once a strapping organization, it had all but fallen apart since his death, surviving only in stacks of papers and pamphlets in attics and filing cabinets. I have begun the process of creating the Society anew and continuing my grandfather's essential work in educating the public about the terrible menace we all face.
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We are also researching the construction of advanced Gravity Detector, which will be a handheld device to determine whether or not there is gravity in a location. |
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Contact Randall Munroe is currently currently studying toward a degree in physics and mathematics at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He can be reached by email at rmunroe@gmail.com. He is the author of the webcomic xkcd.com. Drawings, unless otherwise noted, are by Llovable Lloyd Teitsworth |