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...three-day hop) and will follow flight plans that are in many respects quite similar. All are traveling to deep basins or other formations on Mars that look as if they were once flooded with water, a key requirement for life. All will also reach the surface in the Rube Goldbergian fashion pioneered by NASA's Mars Pathfinder in the summer of 1997, slowing their fall with a combination of heat shields, parachutes and, in the case of the U.S. landers, braking rockets. All will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags. The esa mission, which launched last...
...collision course with rakish journalist Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). She thinks he's a pig; he thinks she's a prig. Abetted by their respective editors, Vikki Hiller (Sarah Paulson) and Peter MacMannus (David Hyde Pierce), they parry, gavotte and dissemble: Catcher pretends to be a rube astronaut; Barbara pretends to be...well, we can't give away the plot...
...print (except for its inclusion in a crime novel anthology) and the 1947 movie adaptation starring Tyrone Power has never been put on tape or DVD, this book may also be the only way you get to appreciate a deservedly cult work. This is no "Hey! Rube!" Go check...
...proposed, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption involving a hammer, a vial of poison and a quantum triggering device. If an electron is in one position, the hammer will remain safely cocked. But if the electron moves into the opposite location, the hammer will drop, smashing the vial and killing...
...minister who helped Zhang was publicly attacked for using personal influence to bend the rules. Mention of Zhang's unorthodox admission cropped up in the "big-character posters" that festooned the school's walls. Added to this uncomfortable notoriety was the stigma of being a provincial rube of questionable political background, nine years older than most of his classmates at a school dominated by native Beijingers, many of whom were eagerly joining the Communist Party. So Zhang switched to the more prestigious major of film directing?more out of a desire to overcome his underdog status, he says, than because...