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...will follow flight plans that are in many respects quite similar. All are traveling to deep basins or other formations on Mars that look as if they were once flooded with water, a key requirement for life. All will also reach the surface in the Rube Goldbergian fashion pioneered by NASA's Mars Pathfinder in the summer of 1997, slowing their fall with a combination of heat shields, parachutes and, in the case of the U.S. landers, braking rockets. All will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags...
...will follow flight plans that are in many respects quite similar. All are traveling to deep basins or other formations on Mars that look as if they were once flooded with water, a key requirement for life. All will also reach the surface in the Rube Goldbergian fashion pioneered by NASA's Mars Pathfinder in the summer of 1997, slowing their fall with a combination of heat shields, parachutes and, in the case of the U.S. landers, braking rockets. All will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags. The esa mission, which launched last week, was the first...
...trace a rather simple request through Harvard's Goldbergian channels. A junior realized that she didn't have an up-to-date copy of her transcript, which she needed for an application for her House's nomination to a fellowship. The fellowships tutor suggested that the House office, with its capability of calling up unofficial transcripts, would surely be able to oblige The office, on the other hand, confirming that it indeed had the ability to do so, demurred that it was not allowed to print out an unofficial transcript. "But," replied the staffer with the cultivated courtesy...
Time and its offspring, movement, have fascinated some modern artists. Sculptors can build it straight into their work -- the last half of the 20th century is full of wind-, gravity- or motor-powered contraptions that range from the balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward...
...Uncle Scrooge." It was collectors who first discovered Barks himself. The artist's narrative skills would have made him a stand out, but the detail of his drawing was what elevated him to the status of pop father figure. All his early jobs gave him a Rube Goldbergian fascination with mechanical comedy; his plots were researched the way a schoolboy would do a term paper-by turning to the National Geographic and Scientific American. "If you're going to be in the Andes, it had to look like the Andes," he insists. "Some of those other artists...