Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were differences in results. Although the Russians did not detect a Venusian magnetic field, Mariner discovered slight magnetic activity that could have come either from a field less than 1/300th the strength of earth's or simply from the interaction between the solar wind and the Venusian ionosphere. The Russians at first reported that carbon dioxide comprised 98% of the Venusian atmosphere, but later revised the figure down to between 90% and 95%, closer to Mariner's reported 72% to 87%. And while Mariner could find no evidence of oxygen in the atmosphere, the Venus 4 capsule...
...nuclear blast. From experience with previous tests, the AEC knows that the explosion will create tremendous pressures that will literally push the rock away from the blast center, fracturing it in all directions. The result will be a cavity about 200 ft. in diameter; the surface of the earth will quake, but the AEC does not expect any radioactive debris to be vented into the atmosphere. Rock, melted by the explosion and lining the interior of the cavity, will flow down the walls, forming a pool at the bottom that will solidify into a glassy mass containing as much...
Under its Plowshare program, the Atomic Energy Commission has been investigating the use of nuclear explosives to blast out harbors and canals, to create underground storage cavities, and to release natural gas and oil locked beneath the surface of the earth. Now, in an attempt to do something about growing shortages of copper in the U.S., a team of scientists has worked out a nuclear plan to mine billions of tons of copper-bearing ore too poor to be mined by traditional methods...
Unfortunately, there is nothing royal about Camelot's carious screen version. It has been brought crunchingly down to earth by the churlish touch of Director Joshua Logan. To be sure, the film is a re-creation of the triangled plot involving King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), the interloper-knight who gives his rivals at the Round Table their joust desserts, thereby arousing the lady's passions. The King ignores their affair until the appearance of his bastard son Mordred (David Hemmings), who sunders the kingdom with slander and rumor...
...going to die. You're going to go off the earth. So am I. Do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself is for you to decide...