Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First report was from Los Alamos. Radiation Expert Dr. Ernest C. Anderson reported that the object has the same sort of radioactivity that is shown by natural iron meteorites. Cosmic rays from distant space have turned some of its iron atoms to unstable manganese 54, which gives off radiation while it is decaying to stable chromium 54. This is good proof that the object was part of a spacecraft that had orbited for a long time above the atmosphere, which stops most cosmic rays. The piece that fell on Manitowoc, Wis., probably came from the breakup of Sputnik...
...earlier writings, and is less likely to shock the modern reader than he imagined. But never before had Twain launched his attacks with such savage and scatological humor; Letters is a sort of last testament aimed at making the Old and the New look like nothing so much as cosmic comic books...
...particles as protons, electrons and the nuclei of atoms, in an effort to gather more knowledge about the hazards of manned space flights. One instrument will determine the flow and density of the charged particles (the solar wind) that are constantly streaming outward from the sun. Another will detect cosmic dust that might prove dangerous for future astronauts traveling through interstellar space...
Devilish God. As it becomes clear that Peredonov will never make school inspector, it is also evident that Peredonov's meanness is not merely savage comic realism but cosmic symbolism. Author Sologub. as a leader of the highbrow Symbolist and Decadent literary movements of the 18905. insisted that the moralistic realism of earlier Russian decades was dead. Art should be mystical, symbolic, fantastic. But in rejecting realism. Sologub rejected the real world too, believing, like the Manichaeans, that physical things are the creation of a devilish...
...influence of the sun on the seasons and the moon on the tides, it was not illogical to believe that the five visible planets of the solar system had their own varied and subtle influences on man. Over the millennia, a system was evolved, assigning certain characteristics to the cosmic forces (Venus, love; Mars, will, etc.) and charting their position in twelve divisions of the year called Signs and Houses. The relation of these elements at the instant of birth (what Sign was rising, which planets were in which Signs and Houses, etc.), astrologers believe, predisposes the individual in certain...