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...from and how were they mined, extracted or harvested? How much waste was created and how much energy required to manufacture the finished product? What will happen to the product when it is disassembled? How safe is it for the workers in the building and how safe for the planet...
ALTHOUGH VENUS IS HAILED AS THE EARTH'S TWIN because the two planets are almost identical in size, no human would ever mistake the searing 900 degreesF temperatures of its surface for home. Yet the earth's nearest neighbor may have once been more hospitable. Scientists for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that Venus may have been covered by a shallow sea, 25 ft. to 75 ft. deep, 3 billion years ago. Data sent back by the Pioneer probe on its final plunge through Venus' atmosphere last October revealed an unusually high concentration of heavy hydrogen, also called...
...leveraged buyouts, she informs hubby that the man went home and shot himself. Johnson looks concerned. Here, the film is taking real liberties with the truth. This conversation did not take place anywhere in Burrough and Helyar's book. This conversation did not take place anywhere on this planet...
Students point unhappily to the "aesthetically unpleasing" towers which house a majority of Leverett residents. "There are worse places on planet earth to live," says Delouis Terlonge '96. "Like on the street...
...appears that the regularity of Earth's seasons is a lucky accident, a side effect of the moon. New computer simulations reported in Science and ; Nature have shown that the tilt of a planet like Mars, which has no large moon, will wobble dramatically over periods of a few million years. The gravitational influence of Earth's moon, by contrast, stabilizes our planet. So if life never arose on the Red Planet, one reason may be lack of a suitable satellite...