Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...networks that they tend to throw together people who would otherwise never meet--never mind discuss something as intimate as one's personal beliefs. Thus on the Internet, Catholics suddenly find themselves keyboard-to-keyboard with devil worshippers, Jews modem-to-modem with Islamic fundamentalists. "I put the [Reverend Moon's] Unification Church right up there with the wonderful world of Mormon," someone with the screen name Marzioli posted recently on a Usenet newsgroup. The next message snapped back, "Marz, you are an ignorant disinformationist. Wake...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Ice on the moon? Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey thought it possible, back...
...cosmic real estate goes, few places are less desirable than the moon. Last week, however, the bleak world started to look more hospitable when scientists announced that it is home to a decidedly terrestrial feature: a mammoth field...
...visits spacecraft and astronauts have made to the moon, they have limited their explorations to roughly equatorial areas, largely neglecting the polar regions. In 1994 NASA and the Pentagon launched a probe into a vertical lunar orbit that would reach those extreme latitudes...
...first things they looked for was water. Though moisture elsewhere on the moon would sizzle away under the unfiltered sun, the poles are different. Since the inclination of the moon is nearly upright, sunlight strikes it obliquely, plunging polar craters into darkness. Any water at the bottom of such depressions would flash-freeze at temperatures reaching -387[degrees...