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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Gold Cup Powerboat Race from San Diego, Calif., and National Parachuting Championships from Tucson, Ariz...
...surface with a special stereo camera, Astronaut Neil Armstrong was fascinated by several glassy patches that glittered like tiny bright mirrors. "I noticed them in six or eight places," Armstrong explained, "always in the same kind of place-at the bottom of a crater." Last week Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold offered a dramatic explanation. The moon, he says, may have been scorched by a huge flare-up of heat and light within the solar system...
Since the patches have survived on the lunar surface despite the moon's constant bombardment by micrometeorites and solar particles, Gold calculates that the event was relatively recent-perhaps less than 30,000 years ago. It probably lasted only ten to 100 seconds. The small craters show the effect of the blast because they are natural heat traps. What was the origin of this fiery outburst, which Gold figures was 100 times more powerful than ordinary sunlight? Writing in the current issue of Science, Gold speculates that it came from the sun itself, possibly as the result...
Puzzling Conditions. That kind of cataclysm would not have left any obvious scars on the face of the earth, Gold explains, since much of the ultraviolet radiation would have been blocked off by the earth's atmosphere. But, he adds, the atmosphere itself might have been disturbed or even partially swept away. The explosion, for example, might have blown off some atmospheric helium. It could also account for puzzling conditions on other planets, such as the lack of measurable nitrogen on Mars. Perhaps the most spectacular possibility raised by Gold is that one whole side of Mercury, the closest...
...methodological sophistication: first, because, as I have indicated, much of the 'methodology' is hidden in the inner workings of the computer programs: second, because there just isn't any such thing as stratospheric methodology in the social sciences. We are all still alchemists. To assume that all the ideological gold we somehow smelt will be monopollized by those nasty old men in Washington is a form of intellectual decadence not at all justified by historical evidence. (Consider the history of Marxism, and then think of what Marx could have done if he had data on trade unions...