Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the instruments it carried to study the threshold of space were: 1) photon counters to detect X rays from the sun; 2) a spectrograph to record the sun's ultraviolet rays; 3) special photographic emulsions to trap cosmic rays, which are to be found at full power only above the atmosphere...
This was enough for Hubbard. He scrapped his old dianetics "time track" (running back to the moment of the subject's conception) and soared off through "whole track" cosmic space. In a number of booklets and pamphlets on Scientology and "electropsychometry," he tells how he has discovered and isolated "Life Energy in such a form as to revive the dead or dying . . . [gained] the ability to make one's body old or young at will, the ability to heal the ill without physical contact, the ability to cure the insane and incapacitated...
Some interstellar space men have a more ingenious answer than this Noah's Ark method. If a space ship moves at nearly the speed of light, its time slows down. It can sail like a cosmic ray for thousands of earth-years from star to star, but for its crew only weeks will pass. When they return to earth, however, they will all be Rip Van Winkles: their friends and families will long since have passed into ancient history...
Another, and the least known, terror of space is cosmic rays. These mysterious particles, voyaging across the universe at nearly the speed of light, are normally gentled by the atmosphere before they reach the earth's surface. Men in space would feel their full fury. No shield is effective against them, and certain types leave streaks of dead cells when they pass through living tissue...
...three ways of showing the spiral shape of our galaxy: 1) By tracing the gaseous emissions of blue-white "super giant" stars (10,000 time as bright as the sun) 2) By tracing clouds of hydrogen gasses that tend to follow the spiral arms and 3) By tracing cosmic dust...