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Being underwater is a pretty surreal experience anyway, so the quirks of 3-D seem more forgivable, even fun and whimsical, in this environment. Footage of sharks encountering giant sting rays and turtles casually munching on deadly poisonous jellyfish are viewed through a mask, in the dark; scuba divers see...
So why is space travel survivable at all? Because all speed is relative. A satellite orbiting Earth may be moving at 17,500 m.p.h., but so is every other object in the same orbital corridor. Relative to one another, they're standing still. If one happened to speed up to...
The trouble comes when speed - or worse, the angle - of orbit changes. Things in higher orbits move more slowly than things in lower ones. A dead satellite or one that has lost gyroscopic control could go tumbling down to lower and lower orbits, colliding with objects moving at different speeds...
Bush, George W. • investigation of in connection with wiretapping, politicizing of the Justice Department, and, of course, torture, is fervently desired by the two-thirds of the population less willing than Obama to let bygones be bygones • South African TV station erroneously runs moving banner headline reporting the...
The benign neglect shown on the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort by the Bush Administration won't be an option for the Obama Administration. But the policy pursued by the Bush White House in its final year of isolating Hamas while promoting talks about talks between Olmert and Abbas is no...