Word: pluto
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...play the title role, and Nicole Kidman will put on a prosthetic face resembling the one she had in the late 1980s to play his professor girlfriend. I will make a stab at winning a Visual Effects Oscar for a jaw-dropping sequence in which war machines from Pluto attack Holyoke Center. This sequence will have nothing to do with the rest of the film...
...space community had good scientific reason to want to visit Titan. Larger than Mercury and Pluto, it is dense with organic chemicals, just the kind of prebiotic broth believed to have given rise to life on Earth, though Titan's bitter cold would have flash-frozen any biological processes before they got started. "Titan is so cold that the water is frozen out, whereas here it's liquid," says Jonathan Lunine, a mission scientist. "But that's why it's probably such a good snapshot of early Earth...
...cobble together another. That thrift-shop technology has succeeded in getting three rovers onto the surface of Mars and will be at work again this summer when NASA launches the MESSENGER probe for a 2008 rendezvous with Mercury, and in 2006 when the New Horizons spacecraft takes off for Pluto...
Larger than Mercury and Pluto, Titan would be a perfectly respectable planet if it were orbiting the sun instead of Saturn. Its dense atmosphere is made of organic materials like methane and ethane, strikingly similar to our own atmosphere before life emerged. Since Titan's surface temperature approaches -300ºF, the moon almost certainly does not sustain life, but studying it can give scientists a peek at a sort of cryopreserved version of Earth long...
...touching to look back at the show's optimistic imagined future, in which there's a flying saucer in every garage and even inept button-pusher George Jetson can afford a robot maid and a Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle without worrying about his job getting outsourced to Pluto. --By James Poniewozik