Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is responsible for providing early warning against aerial attacks, estimates that some 3,800 pieces of junk are currently circling the earth.* Total weight of this space-age garbage: six tons. Two-thirds of the nuts, bolts, oxygen cylinders, broken solar panels, dead satellites, spent rocket boosters and other litter is in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles from the earth's surface, where it will remain indefinitely. One-third of the circling scrap is in low earth orbit, only 120 to 300 miles overhead...
Most of the space garbage consists of nonfunctioning satellites and space probes launched from earth. There is also fragmentary junk, resulting from mid-space collisions between spacecraft and meteorites. Astronauts have dumped sewage, food containers and spent oxygen cylinders overboard. On rare occasions, space walkers have accidentally dropped objects in space. Astronaut Ed White lost a shiny white glove during the Gemini 4 flight in 1965. George ("Pinky") Nelson fumbled away two tiny screws while repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the shuttle flight last month...
Gever had made significant progress in the application of fluorocarbons as a blood substitute. Fluorocarbons readily absorb and transmit oxygen, as does blood Dr. Geyer was able to overcome a major obstacle, the formation of bubbles in the solution when injected into rate, by employing a different mixture. Another difficulty was eliminated by Dr. Leland C. Clark Jr. professor of Research Pedantries at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati. Test animals did not exhale the fluorocarbons but rather collected the substance in their bodies especially in the liver Clark experimented until be found a fluorocarbon emulsion that would be expelled...
...Mount Everest: the air is thin and chilly, no living thing disturbs the silence, and the view is spectacularly disconcerting. Bresson's bleak tales (Pickpocket, The Trial of Joan of Arc, Mouchette) make high-altitude demands. Even the most adventurous viewer is The theme of L'Argent, oxygen Bresson's 13th film in a 50-year career, is both simple and brutal: capitalism is a contagious disease, and the carrier is money. Bourgeois parents reward their sons for lying about money. The surest way out of a sticky situation is bribery. Currency is as counterfeit...
thought she saw her soul shining through the features of her face. She forgot the nose was merely the nozzle of a bone that took oxygen to the lungs, she saw it as the true expression of her nature...