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...scientists seemed unsure. In a Washington press conference summarizing the Viking findings, they announced that the results made it impossible to say that there was or was not life on Mars. That has remained NASA's official position. But unofficially, a handful of scientists support the view of Physicist Robert Jastrow, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Says he in a forthcoming article in Natural History magazine: "Although the Viking experiments have contradictory elements, they seem to indicate that life, or some process closely imitating life, exists on Mars today...
...Viking emerged from its conjunction with the sun, a team headed by Physicist Irwin Shapiro of Massachusetts Institute of Technology measured the time it took for radio signals to make the round trip between the earth and the Viking orbiters, 400 million kilometers (248.5 million miles) away. The scientists were making the most accurate tests yet of one of the tenets of Einstein's theory of relativity, which holds that radio waves passing close to a massive body like the sun should be slowed down by its gravitational field. The signals to and from the Viking orbiters have further...
...qualitative difference between mindless atoms and men made in the image of God." Through the economist's theoretical lens, we are all merely so many atoms, with greed as our organizing principle instead of electronegativity. Questions of what is good for us may therefore be put safely aside. The physicist does not worry about what is good for the atoms; neither should the task of the economist be to determine what's good for people, but rather, what laws govern their economic behavior...
...Democrats, notably Averell Harriman and Frank Church, privately advised against appointing Schlesinger. So did his successor, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Some of the Pentagon's uniformed chiefs, who felt that Schlesinger sometimes treated them with contempt, also opposed him. Hoping to avoid controversy, Carter turned to Brown, a physicist who had been one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's prize Whiz Kids and Lyndon Johnson's Air Force Secretary during the Viet Nam War. A skilled manager with a fuzzy ideological image (hawks consider him a bit dovish and vice versa), he seemed a safe compromise...
...Princeton Physicist Robert Dicke determined that if the universe indeed began as a fireball filled with intense radiation, a trace of that radiation should still exist and be detectable with a sensitive radio antenna. By a serendipitous coincidence, in the same year Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Laboratories were using just such an antenna to listen to radio waves from the Milky Way. They had been puzzled by a faint background noise that seemed to be coming evenly from all parts of the sky. When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency...