Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human body is adjusted to mild cosmic ray bombardment at the earth's surface, but no one knows what will happen to humans who spend considerable amounts of time above the sheltering atmosphere. At last week's symposium, Major David G. Simons of the Air Force's Space Biology Laboratory, reported that recent experiments have been somewhat reassuring. For five years Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. has been sending mice, guinea pigs and monkeys on 24-hour balloon flights. Enclosed in pressurized and air-conditioned capsules, the animals rise as high...
Shortly after dinner one evening last week, Physicist John A. Simpson got an important message from the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: the alarm bell on the cosmic ray monitoring device in Simpson's office was ringing. When he got to his office, Simpson discovered that cosmic rays were bombarding the earth at a phenomenal rate of 3,000 per minute (normal rate for the area: 200 per minute). The activity, noted by observatories around the world, followed by less than 30 minutes a giant solar flare. It was the strongest indication so far that cosmic...
...solar flare is a gigantic eruption of the turbulent gases in the sun. They usually occur in areas marked by sunspots and are followed by an increase in the cosmic radiation streaming toward the earth. Only five flares have been observed thus far, and last week's released the highest concentration of cosmic rays ever recorded. While scientists rushed to launch balloons loaded with photographic film and radio-recording equipment, the explosion was producing some weird and widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally...
What he found was a simple-minded materialism-human beings were atoms in a cruel and incomprehensible cosmic scheme. There was always, as he ends one story called Free, "the innate cruelty of life, its blazing ironic indifference." The same theme runs through other stories...
...whole flight will take, at most, 20 minutes, covering a horizontal distance of some 500 miles. The pilot will have to be provided with air, presumably by pressurizing his cabin, but this will not be much of a problem for so short a time. Solar heating and cosmic rays will be no problem either...