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Does the wobbling of the earth on its axis cause reversals of the earth's magnetic field? Have these periodic reversals of the field temporarily allowed more cosmic radiation to strike the earth, killing off whole species of plants and animals? Were tektites-small, glassy globules strewn in distinctive patterns on the earth's surface-formed on the moon or on the earth? Impatient with a piecemeal approach to the solution of these major scientific mysteries, two physicists at the University of Birmingham in England have proposed a single phenomenon that could account for them all: the impact...
...Numb. In addition to Ginsberg (and Kerouac), many of the people Cook interviewed-Kenneth Rexroth, Burroughs, Poets Robert Duncan and Michael McClure-make sensible distinctions between the Beats. In fact, the distinctions are so varied that the term "beat" means anything from tired blood to street existentialism to blissful cosmic consciousness...
Rille's Origin. Besides revealing much about the moon, the core may provide an intriguing record of the activities of the sun. Has it suddenly flared up during the past few billion years? Have its fires ever diminished? By studying the microscopic tracks left by the bombardment of cosmic rays in each layer of the core, and by looking for traces of an element like argon-which is blown from the sun to the moon in the stream of particles known as the solar wind-scientists may eventually get their answers...
With their problems under control, the astronauts conducted the first of their scientific experiments. Placing black sleep shades over their eyes, the astronauts saw the strange light flashes that have been reported by spacemen on previous voyages. Scientists believe high-energy cosmic rays impacting on the eye's retina or the brain's optical center cause the flashes. During the hour-long test, the astronauts reported seeing a total of 61 flashes, which Scott compared to a flashbulb's popping in a darkened arena...
...lost its magic-or perhaps not yet really found it-because like infants, men scarcely can conceive of what lies beyond in space and time. Such perspectives, even in man's minuscule neighborhood of the galaxy, tend to reduce the affairs of earth's superpowers to cosmic unimportance...