Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continuous Spin. Oyama's longevity findings were an unexpected byproduct of experiments to learn something about the effects of prolonged space travel upon astronauts, who will soon be spending months in orbit under conditions of weightlessness, and exploring the moon, which has only one-sixth of earth's gravity. Reduced gravity over so long a period of time, space scientists fear, may produce effects that did not emerge during the relatively short manned space flights made to date...
...open a Cadillac franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about the moon." Nor does he feel that wit is the useful weapon it once was. "The fight for civil rights has lost its romance," he wrote. "There is nothing funny about it any more...
...They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred to the sun god and silver that once glittered in Cuzco's temple of the moon...
...While reviewing some long-forgotten notes, Green recently discovered that in 1910 Astronomer R. W. Wood had taken telescopic shots of the moon through a filter that absorbed light with a wave length of 3,100 angstroms.When the pictures were developed, they showed black spots on the lunar surface. Because the light reflected from sulphur is absorbed at 3,100 angstroms, Wood reasoned, the black spots on the moon must be sulphur...
Carrying his speculations one step further, Green suggests that if life or its fossil remnants are found anywhere on the moon, it will probably be in the vicinity of the telltale black spots on his moon photographs. In the water released from hydrous rock by volcanic heat, he speculates, a primitive form of life might have evolved...