Word: guess
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...personal guess," says Djorgovski. "is that we're dealing with a very special, sub-sub-sub-category of quasar. There may be only one of them." Or, he muses, his team may be looking at a quasar through a "very special" line of sight, a line that passes through a strange cloud of gas that accounts for its curious absorptions. But, he stresses, "I wouldn't stake any money on either of these possibilities...
...meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Chicago this spring, they showed their prize spectrum to other scientists and asked for their opinion. No one had seen anything like it, and few would hazard a guess about what message it might convey. Stymied at every turn, Djorgovski is pinning his hopes on investigating the object's invisible infrared emissions, which have wavelengths slightly longer than the red light at one end of the visible spectrum. Within the next few weeks, astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii will train a telescope equipped with an experimental infrared spectrograph on the quarry...
...mail pals tell of alienation and disillusionment. Ryan Spellecy, 26, a teaching assistant at the University of Utah and a longtime Straight Edger and pacifist, says the organization constitutes a rebellion against a culture that glorifies heroin chic and the idea that you have to smoke or wear Guess? jeans to be cool...
...show last week, host Regis Philbin asked which of the Great Lakes, excluding Superior, has the largest area. Contestant David Honea suggested Lake Huron. Philbin's TelePrompTer suggested Lake Michigan, and the voluble host sent Honea packing. After the show, Honea politely asked producers to double-check. Guess who was right? ABC has invited Honea back for the show's final broadcast to continue his quest for the elusive million, which should help ABC in its quest for those elusive high ratings...
...hokey headset. When extraterrestrials finally make themselves known, they may not use radio at all. Instead, they're just as apt to signal us with beams of light. Says physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.: "It's foolish to try to guess what an extraterrestrial civilization might use. You ought to try all available technologies to detect...