Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever-increasing numbers of Homo sapiens inhabiting our planet have caused worry among statesmen and scholars about how the earth can support so many human mouths to feed, he said...
Activity at ILM is currently at high pitch. The unit is finishing the special effects on Howard the Duck, being produced by Lucasfilm for an August release, about a cigar-chomping duck from another planet who crash- lands near a punk bar in Cleveland. Also in the works are Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, due out at Christmas; The Golden Child, an adventure-comedy starring Eddie Murphy; and--something new for ILM--a redesign of the rocket- ship ride at Disneyland, using Star Wars-like effects...
Despite its high-tech tools, ILM uses homey techniques as well. Clouds might be simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...
...high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly 1.8 billion miles to inspect the planet Uranus. Such wonders are indeed extraordinary...
...shuttle for scientific launches has seriously delayed projects such as the Galileo and Ulysses probes of Jupiter and the Hubble space telescope. The last major scientific space mission by the U.S. was the 1977 Voyager 2, launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket; Voyager's bypass of the planet Uranus in January provided the U.S. with its only space success this year...