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...hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...added that the problem with carbon dioxide "is that we are not knowledgable enough to predict exactly what the effects on the atmosphere will...
...crucial is the ability to survive projected Soviet countermeasures. Explained William Perry, chief of Pentagon Research and Engineering: "We will put these missiles on our radar measurement range and make very detailed measurements of their radar cross sections. The data will be fed into a computer for simulations that predict what kind of performance we will get against different sorts of air defenses...
Despite all their wondrous tracking stations, bristling with huge radar antennas and feeding the most advanced electronic computers, America's top military and civilian space scientists could not predict even roughly where Skylab would fall. Until the final hours, they could narrow the area of eventual impact only to a vast global band between 50° north latitude and 50° south latitude?a sweep of about 109 million sq. mi., or nearly 56% of the earth's area. Conceded Hal Sierra, one of the technicians monitoring Skylab's death throes from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston...
NASA officials predict that the chances of Skylab hitting one specific individual is one in 600 billion. To hit someone, somewhere, the odds...