Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evidence introduced at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society here has cast doubt on conclusions drawn in 1914 by Percival Lowell '76 which later led to the discovery of the planet Pluto...
Also on the program will be Gerald de Vaucouleurs, from the Lowell Observatory, who will discuss what might be learned from the observation of a planet at close range, and G. M. Clemence, of the U.S. Naval Observatory, who will discuss the tracking of ships in space...
...Miss Goebel that he was a manufacturer of TV antennas, and was about to embark upon the production of a revolutionary device called the "Modulator." Wide-eyed, Pauline listened to Harold's story-and a real whopper it was. Harold had been in touch with officials of the planet Venus. Matter of fact, he had visited Venus in a flying saucer. And after two wonderful visits with his Venutian hosts, he had won the honor of presiding over the earthly development of the Modulator, which could collect energy-much more powerful than atomic power-from the atmosphere...
Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal) attracted considerable attention as a satirical TV yarn about a man from a distant and civilized planet who. via flying saucer, visits his "hobby," the Earth. It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard...
Such science fiction is not based wholly on imagination. If Captain Dart gets to the Whirlpool Galaxy while he is still young enough to make a safe blast-down on some hospitable planet, he will thank, in part, Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity...