Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cordless microphone passing from hand to hand around the bar is a magic wand, transforming people into singing stars, romantic desperadoes, family. Betty holds the mike for Terry, who sings This Love of Mine. They gaze into each other's eyes. Tenderness seems to rise in a cloud from Margaret's keyboard. A wild, passionate embrace, something along the lines of the Tabu perfume ad, seems inevitable. "This is the only place you can come and make a fool of yourself in front of your friends," says Terry. "Of course, we've been married 31 years...
...solar system passes through the central plane, it may collide with one of the massive dust clouds. While the cloud itself would have little graviational effect on the earth or the sun, its gravitational pull would. The strong lure would perturb the Oort cloud--a vast spherical shell of trillions of icy particles which surround the solar system...
Although such objects are as far as 10 trillion miles away, they clearly can effect the earth. If the solar system passed through the Oort cloud, a bombardment of comets would shake loose. Even if a small fraction of them made contact with the earth, the impact would blow enough debris into the atmosphere to cut off sunlight and cause a cosmic winter, ultimately extinguishing most of the life on the planet...
...Goddard scientists have an explanation: the earth, they say, is currently passing through one of the galaxy's many "empty pockets," which they describe as cloud-free safety zones. They add that other geophysical phenomena, such as reversals in the earth's magnetic field, could add more evidence to support the anomaly...
...patch" over the errant software instructions. Even on the successful launch date, Aug. 30, Discovery's crew marked time for 7 min. while three wandering private planes were chased away from the Cape Canaveral area. Said Shuttle Operations Director Thomas Utsman: "I had a feeling that a black cloud was following...