Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this wacky intergalactic adventure through space and time. Beatty, as the invincible Flash Speedo, along with sidekick Crusty Oldguy (Jack Warden) and faithful dog Arfie (Barbara Stanwyck) fiods himself in one sticky situation after another. Watch him battle Goldie Hawn as the hair-raising Dumb Blond Monster from the planet Nomind, a creature so terrible, its mere touch can turn a normal man into a silly sex object...
...because Venus is such an inferno, the heavenly goddess has held a special fascination for scientists. Why, they wonder, has a planet so close to earth and so like it in size and density evolved into a world so vastly different and hostile? Last week at a conference sponsored by NASA'S Ames Research Center, they provided new insights into Venus-and some warnings about the earth's own future...
Much of their information comes from an unmanned Pioneer spacecraft. Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version...
Since Venus provides a planet-size lab for studying such a calamity, scientists want more missions to the planet...
Suade Cowboys, Planet Street and Square...