Word: microsecond
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...baseball that viewers have rarely seen before. There are the .400 hitters who somehow never make the majors, and the .200 hitters who do. There is the strange case of the black athlete who could do everything-run, steal, hit, field-but who ducked from an inside pitch a microsecond too soon. His fear was his tragic flaw; beanball pitchers got the message and within a season drove the man from the game...
...leave, located somewhere in the future, and when my feet meet the pavement outside, I return to the present with a jarring thud. I make the adjustment in a microsecond. California is billed as a now scene. But the fact is, everyone living here has one foot in now and another in tomorrow. Here, you get the feeling, is the authentic international dateline. Here the future begins. As I walk away from Rand, the prospect seems kind of pleasing after...
...Microsecond to Decide. For all its plans, NASA is still having difficulty convincing its critics that it ought to be sending men even to the moon. As the lunar landing approaches, the debate over manned v. unmanned space shots has intensified. Historian Arnold Toynbee calls Apollo "moonmanship follies." John Kennedy's science adviser, Jerome Wiesner, warns that "it would be a mistake to commit $100 billion to a manned Mars landing when we have problems getting from Boston to New York City." Says Physicist Ralph Lapp: "Given a choice between $500 million for basic research and the same amount...
This is just what happened. Photocells along the tube reported that a thin, luminous wave raced along it at 45-50 cm. per microsecond (about 1,000,000 m.p.h...
...Little Boy began listening for the 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...