Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should give scientists a good line on the ionosphere-composition and density of its gases, temperature at the upper levels, possibly the incidence and effect of cosmic rays. Such information will be relayed to the ground by radio telemeters...
...rocket's nose are instruments to record the composition of the upper atmosphere, its temperature, pressure and density. Later the Corporal may report on cosmic ray and meteoric conditions, and possibly provide new spectroscopic photographs of astral phenomena unimpeded by the optical distortion of the lower atmosphere. Heretofore the best information on the upper air has been supplied by radio-equipped weather balloons which level off some 20 miles below the Corporal's recorded ceiling...
High priest of the inconsolable Dolorists was chalk-faced Julien Teppe, who believes that only those who suffer cosmic misery can see reality clearly. In his 43-page Manifesto of Dolorism he discovered that "even a vulgar intestinal disturbance, when analyzed, interpreted, ruminated, and properly meditated, is capable of lifting us to a high universal comprehension . . . engulfing, containing all possible experience...
...describes how Werfel rose again from the grave, none the worse for a sleep of some 100,000 years, on the "Third Day of the Fourth Earth-Month of the Seven Hundred and Forty-Second Sun Week of the Zero Point Zero Zero Third Evolution in the Eleventh Cosmic Capital Year of Virgo...
...space itself, the spaceships (if ever constructed) may meet their worst perils. The region outside the atmosphere is not mere emptiness. It is chockfull, among other things, of searing X rays from the sun, electron-streams hot out of sunspots, powerful cosmic rays from the depths of space. These are checked by the atmosphere before they smack the earth's surface. Their possible effect on the crew of a comparatively thin-skinned spaceship is something to dampen the enthusiasm even of astronauts...