Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth planet of seven-check that, the sixth of seven-counting outwards from the sun, which is the larger of the two stars. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planet each have one. Our probe is in the orbit of your moon...
...long-range radio signals to communicate with other intelligent beings. Such signals would be considerably weakened over interstellar distances. Instead, Bracewell said, those far-off beings might employ robot space probes as their message bearers. Sent to a promising nearby star, such a vehicle could swing into an orbit around it at approximately the right distance to encounter a planet with life-supporting temperatures. If it picked up telltale radio signals, the probe might then bounce them back to advertise its presence, thereby producing an effect like the echoes of the 1920s. Finally, as its first message, the robot might...
...members of the committee believes that the cost of sending a space shuttle into Earch orbit can be reduced to $20 per pound. President Nixon's proposed shuttle will cost $100 per pound, Hopkins said, although it does have cheaper research and development expenditures...
...than between Munich and Florence. "I was in Florence yesterday," he said, "and I really had the feeling of being on another continent." If ever there is to be a common culture for Europe, he believes that it will be the result of cross-fertilization from the Anglo-American orbit-not so much in art or literature as in lifestyles. "These influences range from the habit, new to Europe, of calling people by their first names, to the social influence of radio and TV shows, to the way that fashions develop outside traditional centers in Europe...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, who is the chairman of the Commission, said yesterday that the Commission's main fault has been that it is not well enough known to undergraduates and therefore the problems it handles are "out of the student orbit...