Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen along now and then, and mathematicians thrive on the so-called educated guess. But a person bluff enough to crane his neck toward the future and expound on the view over yonder is all too often blushing from more than exertion by the time the scene has gotten plain enough for everyone to see. Still, if you can trace an edge here and there, catch a glint on the horizon, and toss in a grain of folk wisdom--say, about history repeating itself--divination is an awfully tempting pasttime. Politicians like to do it; journalists, too; scholars, as befits...
...holding forth on the composition of moon rocks brought back by astronauts from the latest moon expedition. Suddenly there is a commotion at the rear of the room. Enter three bizarrely attired "spacemen", who begin to make their way awkwardly to the front, their arms loaded down with plain, dirty earth rocks. Upon reaching the front of the hall they drop the rocks on the floor before the experts. There is a resounding crash. A shocked silence descends over the room as clouds of common earth dust rise into...
...spacemen" in this incident, which occurred at an AAS meeting a few years ago, were members of a radical-activist group called Science for the People (SftP). The point they were trying to make was plain: for most working Americans the tangible results of the billions of dollars they paid out for the space program was nothing but a pile of rocks...
...home, transmitted back to earth the following day, was also a surprise. Scientists had expected from orbital observations that the landing site would be covered with Sahara-like dunes. But the first panoramic pictures showed an area strikingly similar to that occupied by Viking 1: a relatively flat plain, strewn with porous, spongy-looking rocks that seemed as if they might be volcanic in origin and cut by a shallow channel that could have been carved by running water...
...flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...