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...while the astronomers using the space telescope will hardly reject any astronomical knowledge of the influences of the stars on human affairs and terrestrial events some interesting idea circulating among astronomers at the present time states that a companion star to the Sun indirectly causes mass extinctions on this planet every '26 million years and thus has some potential for affecting human affairs, it is safe to say that their methods are somewhat different than those of the astrologers...
...kind of fed up with the rest of the planet, and so it became a case of 'this is for me'--you know, like the L'Oreal commercial," she explained...
Sagan used the findings of the 1971 "Mariner 9" space mission to Mars to illustrate the after effects of nuclear war. Particles in the Martian atmosphere stirred up by dust storms formed a cloud over the surface of the planet, he said, raising the upper atmospheric temperature while lowering surface temperatures and creating an artificial winter...
That's right, earthlings. In Supergirl, which is due out this summer, we learn that the Man of Steel has a cousin, Kara, who fled the doomed city of Argo, a floating chip off their old home planet, Krypton, and landed in Midvale, Ill., where she assumed the identity of a Midwestern teenager. Got that? Anyway, with her muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve...
Your article on the flight of the spacecraft Challenger [Feb. 13] gives me hope. We live on a medium-size planet attached to an ordinary star at the edge of a run-of-the-mill galaxy. Space technology is our key to a greater universe. Earth, as is amply demonstrated by the tragic events that are occurring in the world today, does not have room enough. Only space can unite and save mankind...