Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Chant sold 6 million copies worldwide and grossed more than $50 million for EMI Records (whose stars range from Sinaad O'Connor to Digable Planets), Laurentino de Buruaga, the group's choirmaster, complains that the monks have earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the...
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One of these was inflation theory, which says the universe expanded like a balloon on amphetamines before the cosmos was one second old. Then there was cold dark matter, hypothetical subatomic particles that may account for 99% of the mass of the universe and may relegate ordinary atoms-and the...
Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel offered a telling historical anecdote in an address to colleagues at the American Astronomical Society's January meeting in Tucson, Arizona. In the 19th century, it dawned on astronomers that the orbits of Uranus and Mercury weren't exactly what theory predicted. So they proposed the...
Why is it necessary to visit and colonize other planets? Why do we feel compelled to travel to distant worlds? Aside from humanity's innate curiosity, some say that in the future, there may be a need to vacate planet Earth. Says astronomer Carl Sagan, "There is a long-term...