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Savvy speculators may want to look into the new solar system found orbiting the star UPSILON ANDROMEDAE last week. Distant planets have been popping up for a few years, but always singly; this is the first time astronomers have found a group. One even has an Earthlike orbit, so it might be hospitable--except that it's bigger than Jupiter and probably made mostly of gas. It could have an Earthlike moon, however. If you can find a broker, better get your bid in early for a choice...
...timeless limbo. Not timeless in a positive sense, in the way that, say, Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced? is timeless, but in the way that the old sci-fi series Space: 1999 is now timeless. The series was about the moon's being blown out of Earth orbit and traveling the universe. It's 1999, and our moon is still firmly in place. There's no reason to watch that series anymore...
Blur's last album, the eponymous Blur (1997), featured raw, guitar-driven rock and seemed to be influenced by the then dominant alternative-rock scene in America. On 13, Blur's sixth album, the band has enlisted producer William Orbit, the electro-guru behind Madonna's most recent album, Ray of Light. The result is that 13 is full of buzzing and whirring, guitar distortion and machine-generated beats. Unlike on Madonna's album, however, few of the songs here have danceable rhythms, and few have memorable tunes. Other British acts, including Radiohead and Unkle, have explored similar sonic territory...
...Soviets send the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around Earth...
Marilyn hardly seemed destined to make history. Unlike other chimpanzees kept at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during the 1960s and '70s to study the effects of space travel--like Ham, the first primate in orbit--she never made it off the ground. Instead she did her duty as a breeder, a friendly, easily handled chimp mom who gave birth at least a dozen times before her untimely death...