Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breathtaking Regularity. Getting a good fix on one of the signals, the astronomers calculated that it came from an object no more than 4,000 miles in diameter-about half the size of the earth-that was no more than a neighborly 200 light-years away. The signals occurred with breathtaking regularity, one every 1.337 seconds. "Our first thought," says Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle, director of the Mullard Observatory, "was that this was another intelligence trying to contact...
Elvira Madigan tells us we should not dream of it--not on this earth anyway. It does not work. The spirit wastes away from boredom. We are men. We search for the apocalypse. And we find it at the barrel...
Last year, during two intervals when Mercury and Earth were on opposite sides of the sun, a team led by Physicist Irwin Shapiro bounced high-frequency signals from M.I.T.'s exceptionally precise Haystack radar antenna off the planet Mercury. On their way to and from Mercury, the signals, which travel at the speed of light, had to pass close to the sun. During these passages, according to the Einstein equations, solar gravity should have actually slowed them down, lengthening their 23-minute round-trip time to Mercury by one five-thousandth of a second...
Detecting so minute a change was no easy task. Using data gathered by the Haystack antenna and by other observatories, the researchers plotted both Earth's and Mercury's orbits to a degree of accuracy never before obtained; it was essential to know Mercury's exact distance at the time of the test to calculate the difference in round-trip time caused by solar gravity...
Another monthly magazine, Student, also launched itself with a skydiving article. Otherwise, it is more down to earth than Eye. Put out by some recent college graduates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who want to reach "all students, on all campuses, everywhere," it takes a leaf from Playboy: a nude centerfold that is somehow more appealing because the girl is not so slick and a rhyming comic strip about a bosomy heroine's scrapes with sex. The best article is by Edward Bastian, a graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet...