Word: martianize
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...should be glad that the world didn't learn of the Martian hailstorm any earlier. Congress might have spent countless dollars building an atmospheric shield. Its members would have had to appease the country when their constituents thought those insidious Martian rocks were soaking up their money by hiding from view all the diamonds in their backyard...
...verve of Wong's five films to date that makes them wholly his, whether he's doing gangster films (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels), young-rebel dramas (Days of Being Wild) or kung-fu sagas (Ashes of Time, a film so beautifully bizarre it might be the first Martian-arts movie). The elements of his visual style: nightscapes (bars, beds, jukeboxes); sulky boys in white shirts; anomie punctuated by awful violence; murky lighting, as if scenes had been shot underwater and daubed with squid ink; and--Wong's trademark trope--pixilated slow motion that gives every fight...
...conditions. In fact, biologists have not quite given up on our own solar system yet. They think Mars may have had a brief fling with one-cell life that could have left fossil evidence behind. Some even hold out the hope that microorganisms are still surviving somewhere under the Martian surface. Attention is also turning to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons; its icy white surface could conceal oceans of liquid water, and perhaps some sorts of living organism. Both possibilities are likely targets of future NASA investigation...
...finished life on that planet?" The remote-controlled Soujourner rover, no bigger than a microwave oven, will roll out of the Pathfinder lander on six wheels and roam the planet inspecting rocks and weather for up to 30 days. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington plans to issue a daily Martian weather report...
Arecent ad in the Crimson read: "An open invitation for open minds. What will be your journey? To see the world from a string of satellites...to help build a rover to drive across the Martian landscape...to help Nike just do it. Here's your chance to step beyond the boundaries. Goldman Sachs. MINDS WIDE OPEN...