Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crusoe. "At first," he said, "there were ten of us, lying low and dodging the enemy." One by one, the others died or gave themselves up, and for the past eight years Yokoi had to fend for himself. He kept time by marking a "calendar" tree at each full moon. Food in the jungle was plentiful, and he survived on a diet of mangoes, nuts, crabs, prawns, snails, rats, eels, pigeons and wild hog. A tailor before he was drafted in 1941, Yokoi had kept a pair of scissors, with which he trimmed his hair and cut cloth that...
...MOON'S A BALLOON...
...wanders on to the screen like a mildly rattled rabbit, occasionally splutters, "I say, jolly good, what?" and hardly ever gets the girl. Niven has played this P.O. Wodehouse stereotype with such consistent charm that audiences usually assume that Niven is like that too. Not at all. In The Moon's a Balloon, his racy autobiography, Niven offers himself as a tough, ambitious international playboy-a well-preserved specimen of that almost extinct species, the gilded barfly...
What does it all mean? For one thing, the evidence continues to refute the old theory that the moon's interior is cold and geologically inactive. More important, the findings hint that the moon, like the earth, probably was formed out of the collisions of countless chunks of primordial material. Shortly thereafter the newborn moon was rapidly heated, possibly by its radioactive elements, and underwent surface melting about 4.5 billion years ago. In contrast with delegates to previous "rock conferences," the experts assembled this year were unusually reticent about advancing new theories on the moon's evolution. Said...
Though only indirect evidence has been found in lunar rocks, the moon apparently once had a magnetic field. Finally, the differences in composition between the lunar highlands and the moon's maria are somewhat similar to those between the earth's relatively lightweight continents and its denser deep-sea floor...