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None of the forecasters seem to have any good solution for the traffic problem, though they count on automated, and possibly underground, highways. McLuhan and others predict that both the wheel and the highway will be obsolete, giving way to hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers...
Cooper has let his imagination soar even farther. Using different radii and gravitational forces in his formulas, he has laid out the mathematical groundwork for extraterrestrial travel networks. According to his calculations, straight-line tunnel travel between any two surface locations would be 53 minutes on the moon, 49 on...
Shortly after the murders, Capote was propelled to Kansas, a region that is as alien to his spirit as Mars, by the scarcely original premise that any truth exhaustively explored can furnish better story material than fiction. He dogged the story off and on for six years. A diminutive, eccentric...
No sign of the vast highway networks, bridges, dams, or even cities on Earth could be found on the photos, said Sagan. Even differences in shading caused by seasonal changes in vegetation were difficult to detect, although many of the pictures were taken months apart. Concluded Sagan: the Mariner 4...
Happily joining the debate last week, another scientist at the A.A.A.S. meeting declared that the Mariner pictures do suggest the possibility of Martian life. New Mexico State University Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930, said that the faint markings on seven of Mariner's 22 photographs coincide...