Word: cosmos
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...global computer networks. There's no sure way to measure how much the Internet will change our lives, but the most basic truth about technological revolutions is that they change everything they touch. Just as the first telescopes forever altered our sense of where we sit in the cosmos, so the Internet may press and tug at our most closely held beliefs. Will the Net change religion? Is it possible that God in a networked age will look, somehow, different...
Cruising through the cosmos at 27,700 m.p.h., the Energizer bunny of NASA spacecraft is measuring cosmic rays and solar emissions, probing for the outer boundary of the solar system and even abetting the efforts of scientists pursuing SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. When Pioneer was launched in March 1972, its primary assignment, ordained by NASA, was to reach the environment of Jupiter. At the time, says physicist James Van Allen, the discoverer of Earth's radiation belt and a principal contributor to Pioneer's achievements, "this objective was regarded as a bold one." While unmanned U.S. and Soviet...
...records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification the reason we ventured into the cosmos in the first place...
...investing $3 billion in the past three years in international bottlers. In April, Sinclair launched another salvo, a $500 million marketing campaign, called Pepsi Blue, to introduce a new, sky-hued can in 24 countries and to reinforce Pepsi's image as the coolest cola in the cosmos...
...Readers get both cover-length packages in this week's magazine. As we continue a year of covering down-to-earth politics with a passion, we'll likewise over the coming months (and years and decades) keep our curious eyes on the doings of any other cohabitants of the cosmos. It's all part of our own temporal mission to tell the tales and synthesize the complexities of our fascinating world--and universe...