Word: giant
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Hurtling in from space some 16 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into the dusty surface of Mars and exploded with more power than a million hydrogen bombs, gouging a deep crater in the planet's crust and lofting huge quantities of rock and soil into the thin Martian atmosphere. While most of the debris fell back to the surface, some of the rocks, fired upward by the blast at high velocities, escaped the weak tug of Martian gravity and entered into orbits of their own around...
...great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities. Jones dramatized his ideas in the famous Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner Dynamic: Coyote sets in motion giant boulder A, which whistlingly descends into a canyon to strike seesaw lever B, catapulting giant boulder C into orbit...and so on. Jones' work is a bridge that carries Isaac Newton across into Chaos Theory...
...fuel-air explosion," probably indicating that a low-grade explosive device was involved. This theory, so far a minority view, holds that an explosion would cause fuel to leak into the air and then be ignited by the slow-burning detonating material, creating what amounts to a giant gas bomb; a higher-velocity explosive like Semtex would cause severe structural damage to the plane, but the intense blast might be too short to ignite fuel vapors...
...hybrid idea is attractive to computer makers, although most would prefer to add TV reception to their PC lines than get into the TV business. Direct-mail giant Gateway 2000 is already selling Destination, a $3,500-to-$4,500 hybrid TV-PC. NetTV, Inc. introduced its competing WorldVision in March, and Compaq and RCA are expected to follow suit early next year...
...garden contains a giant red-leafed Japanese maple imported only a few years after the opening of Japan in 1861, when the first such trees were brought to North America...