Word: blob
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...transmit data continuously. But next year NASA will launch the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite, and place it in permanent orbit between the earth and the sun. Moment by moment, ACE will sample the solar wind and, almost as quickly, relay its findings back. If a blob of plasma heads this way, then ACE will see it--and alert forecasters like Hildner that a big one is about...
Nonscientists will be thrilled as well--as long as they have realistic expectations. Hyakutake is as bright as a bright star overall, but its light is diluted over an area twice the size of the full moon; it's a glowing blob rather than a fiery point. There won't be much of a tail at first, but one will grow over the next few weeks, making the comet even more prominent through April. And after it fades from view later in the spring, comet lovers have a treat to look forward to next year: a second new comet, called...
There is some evidence against David's notion that in the eyes of younger people everyone born before the Inchon landing melds together into a single blob of undifferentiated old coot. There is, for instance, my favorite theory about why Ronald Reagan, the most successful oldie-but-goodie candidate in recent times, did so poorly in the Iowa caucuses in 1980, compared with 1976--a theory quickly forgotten after he reclaimed his microphone and his future in New Hampshire...
Forgive us, but whenever the monthly cry of 'reform' strikes the Undergraduate Council, we have to be a little bit skeptical. Past attempts to define and remedy the essential problems of the council all seem to meld in our minds into the same amorphous blob, long on talk and short on action. We sincerely hope that the new day trumpeted by the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) actually sees fruition. Until then, it has the awful burden of reform's history to overcome...
...internet," says TIME's Joshua Quittner. "The stocks have doubled for every internet-related company over the past year." Butis Netscape, as many investors hope, the next Microsoft? Much like Microsoft did with its Windows operating system, Quittner notes, "Netscape is like this big blob that just absorbs everything -- Real Audio and Adobe Acrobat are two examples -- into its system. And Netscape has had a pretty big start on every one else in the browser business...