Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that time NASA will have plenty of other missions to manage. The next project in the Discovery series is the Mars Pathfinder, scheduled for launch next December, which will land on the Red Planet and send a robot rover off to explore. Then comes Lunar Prospector in 1997, designed to chart the mineral composition of Earth's nearest neighbor, and after that a mission to bring a chunk of comet back to Earth, slated for 1999. Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when...
When management gives eight months' notice of international transfer, a Harvard graduate ought to have time to learn something of the newly required language. But instead, my graduates harp as my undergraduates do, about a shrinking planet, international business and the Web, all the while scarcely realizing that a love of languages other than English endures as one great divide between public-high-school graduates and private-school graduates...
...large number on which life exists, and many on which beings may have evolved beyond our level. It is conceivable that such beings have had a close look at us and turned away. There may be a message out there in space: "Hey, guys, as you explore other planets to visit or colonize, stay away from one. The dominant species there is vicious, killing one another as well as other species. If you travel there, they will kill you too. That planet is called Earth." FRED WOLFF La Quinta, California Via E-mail...
...BEEN CAPABLE OF SENDING EXtraterrestrial signals for only a minute fraction of the billions of years our planet has been habitable. Accepting the astronomically remote assumption that a civilization parallel to ours, with the same technology, currently exists and is a mere 1,000 light-years from us, our signals will reach them around A.D. 3000. Will there be anyone left here on Earth to receive the reply? ROBERT REDDEN Warwick, Rhode Island...
...HAVE BARELY BEGUN TO DISCOVER life on our own planet, and time is running out. Not even half the plants and animals that inhabit Earth have been discovered and cataloged. Should we be spending billions of dollars trying to find life in space when our own planet's life-forms are disappearing before our eyes? CHRISTOPHER M. HECKSCHER Dover, Delaware...