Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University biologist pointed out that since there are probably ten million million planets somewhat similar to earth, life has probably developed on many of them in much the same form as we have on this planet...
Sorokin insisted that a return to the "norms of the Sermon on the Mount" and the practicing of friendship toward all nations would prevent future wars. He denied that such "popular prescriptions" as democracy, education, or religion are sufficient to prevent the "termination of man's history on the planet...
...practices medicine or writes poetry, but takes drugs and drifts through rooms replete with twisted vines, oddly shaped chemical phials and stuffed animals. As he confides to a friend: "I wouldn't be so bored if someone explained to me what it was all about, here on this planet...
...periodic radio signals, he thinks, come from "sources" that are clustered predominantly on one side of the planet. The radio waves from the sources are normally reflected back to the planet's surface by ionized layers in the Venusian atmosphere. The only waves that reach outer space are those that travel vertically and are therefore reflected less strongly. In effect, a broad beam of radio waves sweeps around Venus as the planet revolves. Only when the beam points toward the earth is it detected by Dr. Kraus. So the time between the peaks of energy gives Venus' period...
...Kraus does not claim to know what the mysterious sources may be. He suspects that they are thunderstorms. He has no idea why they seem to be concentrated on one side of the planet. When the reason for this lopsidedness (a continent? ocean? mountains?) has been deduced, it will be the first information gathered by man about the Venusian surface...