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...years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While this might have very long-term survival advantages for the human race, it seems unlikely to win the enthusiasm of a Congress that just canceled NASA's small appropriation for a radio search for extra-terrestrial intelligence...
Fragment Q1 of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet hurtled into Jupiter late this afternoon, and two more pieces are expected to bombard the same spot on the planet shortly. The upcoming shower follows two smaller impacts earlier today. Q1, R and S are only slightly smaller than the largest fragment, G, which hit Monday and caused the highly visible "black eye" of Jupiter...
...contributed anything significant to society, whose lifetime occupation was that of silicon-impregnated consort to a brutish gladiator and rental car shill, the other a member of that most dispensible of species--the "aspiring actor/model". Are these two typical of murder victims? Is their loss the greatest tragedy on planet Earth this year, worthy of the global mourning that Rwanda cannot buy at the price of a half-million lives...
Jupiter, already suffering a "black eye," was battered again by the splintered Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. The eighth fragment, K, produced another huge fireball that lifted from the planet and grew to three times the size of Earth. Calculations of yesterday's damage from Fragments G and H are still being made. But astronomers are predicting that the huge hole called a black eye, which was caused by G, may become an even more distinguishing feature than Jupiter's Great Red Spot...
...other tracks, the Beasties branch out from rap. There are several slick, funk-inspired instrumentals (Ricky's Theme, Transitions), and a couple of stale punk-influenced songs (Tough Guy, Heart Attack Man). There's also the hovering sense that there are about a zillion bands on the planet that are better at funk and punk than the Beastie Boys. One of those groups is Soul Asylum...