Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons that they do not under stand, the amount of cosmic dust that falls on the earth - now about 2,000 tons daily - has trebled in the past 750 years. They have discovered that ice and snow accumulations during the Viking age (9th and 10th centuries) vary little from the present and that 1776 was an unusually warm year...
Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...
Billion to One. In roughly 1000 A.D., speculates Geneticist McKusick, a Rhineland Jew was hit in the gonads by either a cosmic ray or a ray from radioactive rock such as granite. By a billion-to-one chance, the ray damaged one of the genes that govern biochemical development in the embryo's nervous system, leaving a defect that impairs many automatic functions and sensory perception. While the victim's fertility was unimpaired, reasons McKusick, half of his many descendants carried the defective gene with them during a 13th century Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, the area that...
...M.P.S. Astronomers now believe that as much as one-tenth of a supernova's total mass is blown out at speeds approaching that of light, and enters the earth's atmosphere as cosmic rays. A second wave of slower radiation and burning gases causes the supernova to shine with prodigal splendor for weeks or even years until the star's remains gradually fade...
...practice of loyal opposition seems only further proof of Anglo-American cynicism and hypocrisy. For the existence of such political opposition presupposes the integrity of the lone individual against the group, a tradition that is nonexistent among Asians, who see the man with power as the man with the cosmic forces behind him-a man unwise to oppose...