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Weighing in at around six tons at its launch in October 1997, Cassini lacked the rocket power to fly directly out to Saturn, which is on average 800 million miles from Earth. Instead it headed inward, swooping twice around Venus for "gravity assists" to increase its speed. Its upcoming encounter...
Disposable people, everywhere. Every face I come across is a new possibility, and a sealed certainty. Could we become friends? Perhaps. And if this person should leave my immediate circumstances, could he exit my memory, and I carry on to encounter new possibilities without loss? Definitely. Could I make his...
Some 117 million miles from Earth last week, a small, unmanned ship named Deep Space 1 swooped to within 10 miles of newly named asteroid Braille. The dramatic encounter marked by far the closest approach ever to an asteroid by a spacecraft and helped validate new and previously untried systems...
Hint #2: Everyday I encounter hordes of families in identical T-shirts and the unending flow of boy scouts in identical badges and uniforms. These are the obvious examples, but demonstrate another key tourist watching principle. Tourists tend to dress similarly to the people they are with. Matching clothing is...
"One day at the gym, a friend of mine who worked there says, 'I'd pay you to make my meals for me,'" Pappas recalls. After the encounter, his healthy cuisine appealed to so many hungry customers that he started running a business out of his home.