Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever, look at a soldier's girl friend. The army is now so far beyond the law that it is believed responsible for thousands of killings that Amin never ordered. The sound of small-arms fire is a feature of Kampala evenings. "The army is machine-gunning the moon to save Uganda from invasion," say Kampalans bitterly. Outwardly one of Africa's most placidly beautiful capitals, the city is gripped by fear...
Throughout his career, the trim, tall Cox, with his close-cropped gray hair and half-moon glasses, had steered an independent if unexceptional course. But, as The New York Times commented the week he was fired, "Before, few had thought of Archibald Cox as salty...
Ferry Trips. The site of these colonies would most likely be one or more of the five moving locations in space (first identified by the 18th century Italian-French mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange) where the gravitational and centrifugal forces of the earth-moon system cancel each other out.* Any object placed at these points would remain there rather than fall toward the earth or moon. For his first stations, O'Neill proposes two 1,000-yard-long minicylinders for only 10,000 people, which would require the transport and assembly in space of some 10,000 tons of material...
Later, as the technology for space-building improved, larger colonies could be constructed. But they would always have to be stationed in attached, side-by-side pairs, rotating in opposite directions to counter the gyroscopic tugging that would be caused by a single rotating cylinder. Even material from the moon, asteroids and other planets would eventually be used. Finally, so many people might be resettled in space that the earth's population could be reduced to what O'Neill regards as a comfortable optimum: the 1910 level of 1.2 billion people. Then, he adds, the earth would become...
...most stable points always lie in the moon's orbit around the earth, at a distance of 240,000 miles ahead of the moon and 240,000 miles behind...