Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1969, half-a-billion people watched him on TV. This weekend, when 22 athletes step onto the turf of a West German soccer field in the quadrennial battle for the World Cup, an estimated 600 million people will be looking on. The difference in statistics is not altogether surprising. With the possible exception of the Olympics, there is no event that so intensely commands the attention of the world...
Against a dark background, a pinkish ovarian follicle swells until an egg bursts forth and sails along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from...
...looks like a cross between a golf cart and a moon buggy. It is popularly known as "the flying bathtub" and "the top hat on wheels." Its real name is Witkar-Dutch for white car-and it may just prove to be the biggest advance in inner-city transportation since trolleys took over from velocipedes...
...Berry, the Apollo moon landings and the Skylab missions are only the first small steps. He predicts that by the next century, attempts will be made to establish lunar bases-perhaps as astronomical observatories unhampered by the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mining and other industrial activities will soon follow. Eventually there may be "low-gravity" lunar hospitals, where ailing limbs and organs would be under less strain than on the earth...
Colonizing Venus. But mankind's increasing needs will soon take him beyond the moon to the nearby planets. Even Venus, with a surface temperature of nearly 1,000° F. and a thick atmosphere consisting largely of carbon dioxide, will not, says Berry, intimidate 21st century scientists. He notes that there is already a proposal to inject into the atmosphere of Venus hardy algae that feed on carbon dioxide. This would liberate oxygen, let heat escape from the planet's surface, and cause condensed water vapor to fall as rain. Oceans would form, plants could take root...