Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nowhere was this more evident than last week at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where several dozen space scientists gathered to consider a new generation of so-called superpressure balloons. Floating to the very edge of the earth's atmosphere, these gossamer giants (as tall as 60...
Over the past 50 years, quite a few fascinating discoveries have been made, changing the direction and the assumptions of scientific inquiry. In his book, Probability 1, Amir Aczel, an associate professor of statistics at Bentley College, uses the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe...
And Aczel's final calculation, leading to the number 1 for the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, uses a watered down version of Drake's equation to compute the probability of intelligent life evolving around a particular star. Drake's equation, a description of the factors involved...
Back when Brand Nubian's debut, One for all, was first released, Grand Puba seemed the quartet's spokesperson, the lead, the one with the skills and the knowledge. The fact that one of his two solo joints on the album was their first single might've been what delivered...
It wasn't long ago that astronomers had just a handful of heavenly bodies to think about: stars, planets, comets and not much else. But then along came quasars, then pulsars, then black holes--bizarre objects that have made the universe a decidedly more interesting place.