Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...
...perfectly. Its ship's inertial navigational system-an amazing complex of gyroscopes, accelerometers, depth finders, integrators, trackers, etc. (TIME, April 29, 1957) taken over in a rare salvage from the Air Force's defunct Navaho missile program-kept Nautilus on course and on depth, gave its captain instant readings of position. Ten sound-detection devices measured the distance to the ice above and the thickness of the ice while three other devices sounded the sea bed. Findings: polar ice is generally about 12 ft. thick, although some ridges bulged down 50 ft. or more. Crew comforts were also...
...covered with fine writing in "reformed Egyptian") with the aid of a pair of spiritual spectacles buried with them; the spectacles consisted of two stones called Urim and Thummin set in silver bows. No one but Joseph ever actually saw the golden tablets-he explained that it was instant death for anyone else to see them, and he kept them covered with a cloth or locked in a box whose hiding place he changed frequently. He deciphered them behind a screen, from which he dictated the Book of Mormon...
...Paar stands in the wings alone. The show theme strikes up. Out front, Announcer Hugh Downs, who has been warming up the audience, chuckles with the nightly enthusiasm: "Now here's Jack." In that instant Jack Paar strides onstage, smiling shyly, snapping his fingers. He makes his little joke about hemlines and the men behind the TV cameras smile at him as if they meant it. The show is on its way, following a complex timetable of station breaks and commercials as the network gathers stations and moves west across the night...
Ground controllers at the Space Technology Laboratory of Thompson Ramo Woolridge Corp. in Inglewood, Calif, will study the flight closely. At the proper instant, an Air Force tracking station in Honolulu will trigger the probe's own rocket, guiding it so that the moon sweeps it in. Then the probe can make a lazy, 50-hour pass around the moon, performing such chores as sending an electric-eye view of the moon's unseen face. Theoretically, the moon could sling the vehicle back to earth in a figure-eight-shaped voyage (TIME, June...