Word: martianize
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...when men get together to talk, one thing they learn is that some of the qualities that make them successful at the workplace act as barriers to a successful family life. Yet men with fully developed emotional lives will be better husbands, fathers and friends--while hopefully remaining just Martian enough to keep things interesting...
...NASA's mismanagement. TIME science writer Michael Lemonick says the failed December mission has suffered an unfair level of scrutiny by being linked to its sister mission, the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was lost because one of its programmers used inches instead of centimeters. Lemonick points out that the Martian region the Polar Lander touched down on has very few canyons, so NASA was right to expect a smooth landing. "Until the day when we can survey the entire planet with incredibly high precision, which is probably 100 years away, you can't control exactly where you're going...
...Lander, built for a tenth the cost of its predecessors, riveted the nation's attention in 1997 with its live feed from the Red Planet's surface. And three years after its arrival Mars Global Surveyor is still sending back detailed photos and important data about the water-sculpted Martian landscape, including powerful evidence, released last week, that the planet's north pole was once covered by a vast ocean. It seemed that Goldin's management mantra--"faster, better, cheaper"--was more than just a trendy sound bite...
Fortunately, for NASA, the second time's the charm - or so it seems. On Friday, the space agency's engineers celebrated the fact that, as far as they could tell, the second of their two $100 million Martian landers didn't get lost in space. All indications were that the Mars Polar Lander enjoyed a safe touchdown at right around its scheduled landing time, 3:01 p.m. EST. But NASA failed to receive a signal from the craft during the first 20-minute communications window, beginning around 3:40 p.m. The Lander is the partner craft to the Mars Climate...
...nighttime is the right time to enjoy these campfire tales about UFO sightings. They time-trip the ear medium back to its spooky prime, when Orson Welles scared America witless with a Martian Halloween prank, when Arch Oboler intoned sepulchrally, "And now, Lights Out." A typical Coast to Coast is an all-night ghost story disguised as a talk show. The story being told may be the truth; it may be a crock. But it's often great radio...