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...that his lookalike offspring (introduced in 1993's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) is being groomed to resume the series in just a couple of years. Junior G. need only finish his growth spurt, 20 more meters and 20,000 tons, and he'll soon be following in his dad's crater-like footsteps. JOHN DANIEL LEES, Founder Godzilla Society of North America Steinbach, Manitoba...
...kitchen table for about a day before Thomas Mosser got around to opening it. When he did, however, on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 10, it proved deadly: the blast nearly decapitated Mosser as he stood there in his bathrobe, and it carved a crater about two feet wide in the kitchen counter. It was only the most chilling sort of luck that no one else was injured -- Mosser's wife Susan and daughters Kim, 13, and Kelly, 15 months, as well as a neighborhood child, were in other parts of the big North Caldwell, New Jersey, house...
...misstep, not a rock, that toppled Dante, and only after the robot had completed its main mission: a detailed study of the crater floor 300 ft. below the rim of Alaska's active Mount Spurr volcano that included a 3-D survey of the hellish terrain and an analysis of gases issuing from belching vents. Among the significant results: the first maps of the crater's surface, normally hidden by outcroppings and haze. Dante also discovered scant sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in the noxious air, implying that the volcano, which erupted in 1992, will probably stay quiet...
What makes Dante II truly revolutionary, however, is its four computers and their controlling software. Although the robot was connected by cable to a power generator and transmitter at the crater rim, which let the scientists direct it via a satellite hookup to the control room, Dante II can operate independently at times and did for nearly half the mission, negotiating its own path through the boulders...
...mile or two in diameter -- is streaking in at 130,000 m.p.h., except that the target is not Jupiter but Earth. The mammoth chunk of rock and ice tears through the atmosphere and smashes into the ground with the force of 6 million H-bombs, gouging out a crater the size of Rhode Island and throwing so much pulverized real estate into the stratosphere that the sun is blocked for months and Earth goes into a worldwide deep freeze. If the comet hits an ocean, a pall of dust rises from underwarter sediment, and a tidal wave several thousand feet...