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...find a newborn star because outer regions of the collapsing cloud hide the new star within. Ordinary light cannot penetrate the haze. The long-wavelength infrared and radio waves produced by a warming embryonic star can pierce it, however, just as a radar signal can cut through the densest...
According to Arizona Astronomer Erick Young, "We chose carbon monosulfide because it is a probe of the densest parts of these clouds." The molecule is most excited when it is most compressed. In the center of the cloud, says Lada, "we found that we were seeing carbon monosulfide in a very excited state." In the outer reaches, though, the molecules were much calmer. There was a dense core at the center of the cloud. It was also clear that there was systematic motion inside. Just as a train whistle is higher in pitch as it approaches than when it recedes...
...beams of short wavelengths that could destroy a missile by focusing on it for only a second or so. But the generating apparatus is so bulky that it could not be lifted into orbit; the laser stations would have to be placed on mountaintops to put them above the densest layers of the atmosphere. Even the thin upper layers would cause the beams to shimmer, however, owing to the same phenomenon that makes the light from stars appear to twinkle. The excimer laser beams would have to be bounced off mirrors in very high geosynchronous orbits over the equator, meaning...
...good. It is funny. And it is, visually, the densest movie in a decade. Every frame is packed with enough information, bits of business, incidental eccentricities to fill a Bruegel painting or the panel of an old Mad magazine. And throughout are references to or quotations from Dante's favorite movies: The Searchers, Close Encounters, The Wizard of Oz, To Please a Lady, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Orpheus, The Road Warrior, It's a Wonderful Life, animated cartoons by Warners Old Masters Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, the complete works of Roger Corman. You have...
...other Harvard heros of the day were in the Youth Eight, which finished in second place, just two seconds behind Yale. Those two seconds were lost when the crowd was densest and loudest--under the Anderson bridge...