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...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...
...Economy. With low inflation, a sustained though slowing recovery, and unemployment stable at a reduced rate of 7.5%, Reagan can rely on an incumbent's best defense: economic prosperity. He plans to deal with the one truly dark cloud, the deficit (projected at $174 billion this year) largely by ignoring it. In his Labor Day opener in California, he never even mentioned the word. Asked about the deficit two days later by businessmen at the Economic Club of Chicago, the President blandly replied that economic growth would produce higher revenues. To restrain congressional spending, Reagan again advocated a constitutional...
...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...