Word: hydrogen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cape this morning, closed highways later on(the fact that the President drove in didn't help the situation any). And you could forgive space shuttle Discovery's army of technicians some jitters as they pumped in more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel. As the agency freely admits, there was a flip side to all this positive publicity. If there's a bug in the system, the whole world is watching...
With the assistance of an 84-foot radiotelescope in Harvard, Mass., Horowitz and his assistants listen for frequencies near the neutral hydrogen line, which could indicate the existence of life in outer space...
...frequencies should be "nice and quiet" and located "near the neutral hydrogen line," according to Leigh...
...being so hard-nosed about this? Androstenedione is not a vitamin, a mineral or a protein. It's an honest-to-goodness steroid. The only chemical difference between it and testosterone, which is found in varying degrees in both men and women, is a single hydrogen atom. That helps explain why androstenedione is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee. If you find it surprising that you can buy a steroid over the counter, you can thank the U.S. Congress, which in 1994 barred the Food and Drug Administration from regulating the "dietary supplements" industry...
...read that right. For to shatter the mighty meteor, a hydrogen bomb must be sunk deep into its core. That means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this...