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Not that earthlings living in plastic bubbles on Mars a thousand years hence will care one whit. But it's nice to see people in 1992 with a little perspective.
While NASA studied Magellan's images, another space explorer made history last week. Moving out beyond Mars, Galileo became the first spacecraft to have a close encounter with an asteroid. But pictures of the mysterious planetary fragment, called Gaspra, are unavailable because Galileo's main antenna for sending out images...
Here is a publishing phenomenon that bears watching: the book conceived, produced and marketed like a theatrical property. The deal came first, the writer came second, and then the publicity machine passed them all. The project was draped in a gauze of secrecy that, now removed, reveals no great surprise...
But Biosphere 2 raises a question that vexes researchers: Is it grand science or a grand stunt? The scheme boasts great ambitions: to learn more about our fragile ecosystems and how to restore them, and to create a self- sustaining environment that could serve as a model for space stations...
When he finds his guide, Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) is in a self-made hell. A New York City talk-show host, Jack told a caller he was among "the bungled and the botched," and the caller promptly gunned down seven people at a yuppie boite. Three years later, a...