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...claims. Any plutonium vaporized in an accident, they explain, would be so diluted in the atmosphere that it would pose no real threat to most people. Still, activists say, had Cassini been equipped with solar panels for electricity, all danger could have been averted. But Saturn receives only a hundredth of the sunlight Earth does, and the solar panels needed to supply Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spacecraft Cassini Has Nuke Activists in a Tizzy | 8/17/1999 | See Source »

...Saturn receives only a hundredth of the sunlight Earth does, and solar panels needed to supply Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power for spacecraft that go to the outer planets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Back! Cassini Flies By | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Thursday, HotJobs.com filed for an IPO, hoping to raise $69 million this summer, even though other stocks in the category, like Topjobs.net have struggled. "A story is only interesting the first time," says Chip Morris, manager of the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund. "By the hundredth time an Internet company comes in repeating the same mantra, you just want to scream to somebody, 'Give me a break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet IPOs: What Goes Up... | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...captain John Samuel finished first in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 47.12 seconds, just one-hundredth of a second ahead of sophomore teammate Matt Fritsch...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Torpedoes Navy | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

After an hour or so, Mittermeier returned from what must have been his hundredth climb up the Voltzberg to gaze at the rain forest. "How was it?" I asked him. "Incredible," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: RUSSELL MITTERMEIER: Into the Woods | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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