Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploding meteor, which would produce considerably lower temperatures and no deadly radiation. But smaller nations, unaware of the nature of the blast, might react violently. Says Shoemaker: "Suppose it happens over Syria or Pakistan?" He proposes that the U.S. immediately try to determine whether the explosion was of cosmic origin and notify the affected nation...
...concluded that they had apparently found evidence of the most massive object ever detected. That object, they surmise in a report published last week in Nature, could be a huge cluster of galaxies or a black hole far larger than any ever anticipated. More startling, it might be a "cosmic string," a bizarre, hypothetical remnant of the chaotic birth of the universe...
...order of things. In case we are not familiar with that order, four paragraphs flash across the screen a la Star Wars and inform us that the universe is a balance between GOOD and EVIL, two constituent parties which hold each other in check. Anything which musses up this cosmic tidiness must therefore be swept under the divine carpet before the universe is destroyed...
...rise. As usual in this sort of drama, it's the girl who gets the plot going. Intoxicated by the beauty-and muscularity?--of these beasts, Lilly unwittingly leads them into a trap set by one of Evil's assistants. One unicorn down, one to go. And the cosmic order has officially been screwed...
Thirty years ago, would you have predicted that today's airplanes would feature "bypass" jet engines, fuel efficient turbines which propel them at speeds up to 700 mph? Radcliffe graduate Helen Thomas '28 did just that, copping a $50,000 prize in TWA's "Cosmic Contest...